Ju-on (The Grudge)
by Takashi Shimizu
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Actor: Kanji Tsuda, Megumi Okina, Misa Uehara, Misaki Ito, Yui IchikawaDirector: Takashi Shimizu
Brand: LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Tokusho Kikumura
Writer: Takashi Shimizu
Editor: Nobuyuki Takahashi
Producer: Takashige Ichise
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Ju-on (The Grudge)
DVD Review: The True House Of Pain...
Summary: 5 Stars
JU-ON is one of the best, most riveting ghost stories ever made. I do love the american remake, but the original is better. The way the story jumps back and forth in time is fascinating. It's sort of an anthology movie with one central theme tying the various pieces together like the world's most terrifying puzzle. These ghosts are malevolent, with no other mission than to scare their victims to death or murder them outright! The curse they deliver is malignant and 100% fatal! They are the bringers of death. JU-ON belongs next to RINGU, KAIRO (PULSE), THE ORPHANAGE, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, THE CHANGELING (w/ George C. Scott), and THE HAUNTING (the b/w original) on your spook-shelf. Buy immediately... DVD Review: greatest japanese horror film of all times
Summary: 5 Stars
Definitly, this movie is one of the most original and surprising horror films I've ever seen in my whole life. Ju On, is a beige, bizarre and original film, one of a kind. Definiltly, is the most smart and pure terror film from Japan. No other japanese terror movie can even touch it.
Looks like a modern 70ies film, due to the color of the fotage (almost everything is grey). Takashi took great care on some scenes, making them look like pieces of art. Small histories will make your flesh crawl. There's no gore in this movie. Fear, is pure psychological.
The filmscoring, made with synthesizers, is simple perfect, and the silences from the music, and the sound effects come at the right time.
Some scenes are really creepy and well done, actor performances are superb. They really transmit that horror feeling that makes you identify with their fear. A
The chapters are atemporal, the movie goes forward and backwards, seems that there's no cronological sequence on the movie, it goes telling the history of the different characters that visited the haunted house.
When you visit this house, you're doomed and your soul get lost in time. For example, there are two characters, a father and her daugther, that both die, on different years, when they entered the house. But when they go into the house, they met inside, and the father looks at his grown up daugther in the future, when she also visited the house. Also, when she visited the house, she met her father inside when he died several years ago. You understand this, only when you watch both chapters.
There are things hidden in this movie, that you must watch very carefully to notice. This is one of those films that you have to watch several times to fully understand, but leaving a lot of questions in your mind.
It creates such a terrible, soffocating feeling. If you visited the house, no matter what you do, no matter where you go or where you are, she will come for you.... in the most surprising and creative way, that negative vibe will surround you until it swallows you... that's the main topic on Ju ON.
It's simple a SHAME and an offense to the brightness of this incredible film, the american version. they ommited exactly the details that make JU ON one of a kind.
I swear, I had very bad nights after watching Ju on
DVD Review: so much better than "The Grudge"
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw "The Grudge" first and basically thought: Whatever!?
Now I'm glad I gave the original a try. "Ju-On" is vastly superior to the remake and also much scarier.
Usually the Asian horror movies are the ones that are puzzling to extremes. Here it's the other way around. "Ju-On" makes perfect sense, whereas the American remake couldn't possibly make less.
And I better don't start speaking of "The Grudge 2". Ugh. You might want to check out "Ju-On 2" instead, which --- surprise --- comes up to the standard of this first installment.
DVD Review: Minimalism and scariness
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best scary movies I've seen.
The photography is simple but effective.
It's amazing what can be done with a house, some makeup, and a camera.
In any case, I've seen the Grudge and the first time that seemed pretty scary, but the second time it seemed lame because every scene is telegraphed with music. I like some of the special effects but overall it's a weak movie.
So other than the pointless changes the American version seemed to need I knew everything that was going to happen. But even so this movie made my skin crawl from beginning to end. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. I can't wait to watch it again.
Imagination is more frightening than explicit imagery and this film uses some very simple themes leaving your mind to fill in the blanks. It's much more viscerally frightening than something like The Audition which is very graphic.
From beginning to end this movie keeps you on the edge. The mixed up time line is interesting and compelling. Having the originating event in the past sets up Ju-On 2 perfectly which matches this sense of timelessness. It makes you start to wonder just how long the house has been there and whether the ostensibly first event was in fact the cause.
It's very hard to watch in some ways because it's just that creepy. But I guess that's why we watch scary movies. You have to watch it.
DVD Review: The Sludge
Summary: 1 Stars
True horror is watching an over-hyped Japanese horror film that has as its hideous monster a six-year-old Japanese boy with his face caked in white make-up, mascara and his big moment to scare comes when he bulges his eyes and goes: "Ssssssssss!" Wow, I had a heart attack and had to rush to the emergency room for a heart transplant.
One grows bored quick when it seems that every recent japanese horror film always has ghost children and they all have the same make-up person who thinks that by caking their face with white powder and using a pound of black mascara then that's really going to terrify a a horror addict in the year 2008 whose used to CGI monsters or at least fiends done on a brilliant level--like those hooded ghouls in the terrific THE STRANGERS that I saw last week.
The American version was hardly any improvement but at least it did try to stir up some decent scares which this one didn't. Oh, I think in this one they also had a woman created to look like a human spider but you could still tell it was a human being beneath all that make-up.
Description of Ju-on (The Grudge)
An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters, the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begins, passing through all those who step foot in this dark house.SPECIAL FEATURES
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Following in the footsteps of The Ring cycle, the Ju-On series of horror films has taken Japan by the throat. According to this movie, the title refers to a curse placed upon a house where violence occurred. Sure enough, we see a string of unhappy encounters in a seemingly ordinary home, where ghosts have settled in the aftermath of murder. Director Takashi Shimizu (who also directed the Hollywood remake, The Grudge) constructs the picture out of separate fragments, not told in chronological order; the haunted house is the main character, not any one of the unsuspecting human characters. Cult mavens might suggest that Shimizu uses devices and images that have already worked well in films by Hideo Nakata and Kiyoshi Kurosawa--the Japanese horror film does have its conventions. But none of that matters if you're watching this movie alone at home on a dark night. Click, click, click.... --Robert Horton
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