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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda | | Director: | Takashi Shimizu | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language: | English, Japanese | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Lions Gate | | Run Time: | 92 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | November 09, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 121 reviews |
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 THIS IS NOT JAPAN'S BEST May 31, 2010
About half way through the movie, they decide to reveal the plot. I was confused by all the different people calling the same old woman, "mommma" or "grandma." Are all old women in Japan called that or was everyone related? Initially the movie lacked being scary. Being haunted by a five year old boy and his pet cat is hardly scary. The back ground music, at times, was way too loud and overdone, while at other times it worked well. Apparently Japan does not have any unemployed midget mediums it could hire to exercise the demons. There appears to have been a lot lost in translation. If the dead man was the killer, what was that black thing? Also, did the spirit really have to call and ask for the condo number, or was that a "Freddy" sense of humor moment that didn't on through the rest of the movie?
 As terrifying as Ringu & Gin Gwai Aug 25, 2009
There have been many intense horror films that have come many parts of Asia. We have Ringu, Gin Gwai (The Eye), The Shutter, and many more. Ju-on: The Grudge is just one of the them, and it's just as scary as the ones that are mentioned. True, the plot and the interchanging timeline can be a bit confusing at the first viewing, but once it's fully understood, then both the scares AND the story is completely tremendous. I would easily recommend this horror film to all who are willing to turn the lights off and at least try to sleep it off.
why do ghosts have to make sense? May 30, 2009
A creepy horror story about a haunted house. Yes, that's all. That's the only thing this movie is about. People enter the haunted house, and bad things happen to them. No background, no story, no history, no resolution, no plot, just bad things happen. Kind of like it would be in a real nightmare. The haunted house is very scary itself that you don't really even care about the reason why the ghosts want to hurt people. Which leads to the weakest part of the story, which is when one of the characters stays away from the house... and the three zombie schoolgirls hunt her down. Where did the zombie schoolgirls come from anyway?
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The True House Of Pain... Apr 19, 2009
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...
greatest japanese horror film of all times Dec 18, 2008
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
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