The dead girl in the ring was hot
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suprsnail — 19 years ago(September 09, 2006 04:15 AM)
I agree, The Grudge was a beep mess of a movie.
It wasn't scary in the least, but it's probably because I saw Ju-On first, so everything was predictable.
But, seriously, Ju-On is worth a rental.
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jamie_crying_moon — 19 years ago(September 11, 2006 09:56 PM)
Yes sir, the grudge was a mess !!! But have a peek at the director's name : Tak-kun again, seems like he received cash to spoil his own child. In fact, the remake could have been so good without the white, or without us, the yellow. I myself prefer full-blood Eastern or Western creepy movies, the fact that they mix us with others gave me some dead laughing !!! You know, ya, why didn't Tak-kun get the whole American casts, it'd've been scarrier. I hate the mixture, clumsy comedy !
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Warrior_Kalia — 19 years ago(October 09, 2006 02:10 PM)
True enough. Sarah Michelle doing an eastern horror film made me lawl.
Ju-On was three million times better than The Grudge, in my opinon. It wasn't that scary, but it did make you feel tense, and it had an interesting plot.
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babeedee — 19 years ago(October 14, 2006 01:44 PM)
the grudge looks like slick hollywood visual effects. the little kids (ghosts) in ju-on are WAY scarier because they look, and are, real. theres no way the hollywood version competes on the level of sheer creepiness. yeah, the hollywood version has louder sound effects- but sorry, you can't buy creepiness
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Jayne_Doe_Cobb — 19 years ago(October 15, 2006 06:50 AM)
I was so surprised reading how many people thought the remake was scarier that I just had to respond. How anyone can say the remake was scarier than the original is beyond me. The CGI in the remake totally killed off any creepiness. The effects in the original were far more effective and apart from the visible thick layer of make-up on the blue-ish kid were actually far better too.
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Bad_Machine — 19 years ago(October 20, 2006 02:31 PM)
I've been a fan of horror since my teens, and through the years I've watched all the classics plus loads of obscure/cult ones. Nothing really creeped me out, until I got to know Asian (and Japanese in particular) horror. Some people talk about The Ring and The Eye series, those had their moments but nothing beats the Ju-on series (and especially the first one) in sheer shivers-down-your-spine creepiness. The combination of eerie sounds, gloomy images and scary make-up effects, the camera angles, sometimes even the quiteness of it when all you can hear is the white background noise of silence (you know what I mean) and you know something's gonna happen, it all conspires to create a superbly threatening atmosphere. Never felt that numbing feeling down my spine since the original Exorcist, and thought I was immune/anaesthetized/overdosed to it all, until "Ju-on: The Curse" came my way and reassured me that there was nothing wrong with my senses. I was just watching too much american "pop-corn horror" trash, and needed Ju-on to wake me up again to what a really scary movie should be about. Thank you Takashi Shimizu
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PennyForYourTots — 17 years ago(January 11, 2009 12:37 PM)
I saw the American versions of The Grudge in theaters a few years back and liked them both quite a bit (pretty creepy.) However, just recently I saw all 4 of the Ju-Ons and find them to be much scarier than the remakes. I love the subtleness of them and the creepier/darker atmosphere. The fact that they're low-budget actually helped (kinda like the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre).
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bioinspiration — 12 years ago(March 31, 2014 07:11 AM)
Agreed. I must have watched a thousand horror films, and there are possibly only five or six films that give me goosebumps. Shock and gore have their place, but are easy, cheap and short-lived. It's the uncanny (or Das Unheimliche) that I'm after in horror and Takashi Shimizu is in my opinion the master! I imagine that this effect is amplified for native Japanese viewers (lucky them!) Of course one does have to be in the right mood to allow these films (any film) to work their magic - the old 'suspension of disbelief', and any horror becomes farce if you are not in the right mental space. I've studied them all trying to work out how he creates the effect - which has meant watching them dozens of times - and they don't always work Mood, distractions, company, quality of sound, time of day etc, all play a part. But on a good day, nice headphones, all alone in a dark room - Ju-On still gets me every time. And, although all the Ju-On-Curse-Grudge films have their moments - I definitely prefer the originals for un-selfconscious gritty 'realism' and sustained atmosphere - plus of course the seeping supernatural dread!!! Thank you Takashi Shimizu
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FilmKoala — 13 years ago(May 16, 2012 11:26 AM)
I enjoy them both, but I find it almost laughable that anyone could say that the original was in any way "way better" than the remake. Every scene that both films share, the remake does much better and more realistically, so much so that these scenes in the original come off as silly (Dude, your wife is in serious trouble on the bed. Why in the hell are you slowly shuffling around the room? Wait, why did you hang up on the ambulance? Ugh). Not to mention that the makeup effects were much better in the remake. Toshio doesn't look like a ghost in Ju-On, he looks like a little boy covered in white makeup and Kayako looks funny, not scary. Apparently Takashi Shimizu thought so too which is why he changed her in Ju-On 2 and the remake.
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GNDsac — 14 years ago(April 23, 2011 05:32 PM)
I feel the same as those who have mentioned that the American remake was an inferior creature. Having out of timeline scenes has worked famously for Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction), but it seems to be unforgivable to most American watchers for Ju-On. Also, any sort of ominous and creepy scares are traded away for jack-in-the-box pop-out scares. And the "better looking CGI ghosts?" Seriously? I kept laughing because the "US ghosts" looked like Staypuft the Marshmallow Man, than actual dead people. Nothing in the remake could match Takako Fuji shuffling down the stairs, mouthful of blood, with pain and murder in her eyes.