Score: 5/10
IMDb Score: 5.7/10

 

Summary: It never forgives. It never forgets.

First thing I'd like to say is, I never liked the original Ju-On all
that much. The first thirty minutes of the film though are a
masterpiece of directing, building suspense in a way that is sheer
brilliance! I was quite upset the way the remake took those 30 minutes
and cut them down into about 2 minutes. It lost all the amazing
suspense, and tension that made the first one so great. All the nuances
from the original in that first 30 minutes is gone.

Sarah Michelle Geller. This is where East meets West... I go into this
skeptical but open minded, afterall SMG has had dealings with
supernatural ideaology for a long time, and has a knack for it, as seen
by her Buffy the Vampire Series, but also the obscure romantic comedy
she did earlier.

I felt she did fine, but the "eye" was a ripoff of the original Ringu,
and done in obvious remake form, so all the timing is lost, there's
nothing original at all to this remake, and for a remake to work, it
has to have TIMING.

This movie was not scary, at the end it was just dumb. It felt like
they wanted to bring Asian horror to the west so badly that they cut
great ideas from great Asian horror, and just threw em together
haphazardly.

There were some things in the movie I liked - I did find the scene with
Yoko pretty intense, and the detective scene at the monitor was more
memorable then the original... the ending movements and the eye seemed
like a ripoff of the ring moreso then the traditional mythology from
asia i accepted in the original. Just didn't scare me at the end, i
guess it wasn't supposed to - its like a urban myth story or something,
just kinda freaks ya out...

one thing i did note, in favor of the remake... the dark spirit of the
girl stuck with me moreso then in the original, and i think thats
because Sarah Michelle Geller's character is my nationality, and
appears so INNOCENT, that a part of ourself is vulnerable, the contrast
between SMG and the spirit and the original character is more severe,
so I think that really worked for the remake.

IMDb Thoughts: by prometheusburns I found this movie to be incredibly
horrific on many levels. I won't give any plot away (only 1 scene
spoiler). But I have to say, the imagery makes it a point to be
nightmarish and malformed..in such extreme ways. There is some blood
and gore, but what truly made me freaked out, were the images of these
things that defy true description.

This film is full of abnormal & jerking movements (by these "things"),
& seemingly tranquil scenes that have a quiet and horrific feeling, and
the eyes and faces of these things are TERRIFYING. It gets worse when
they notice you. Letting the film take me in, we are shown a world
where something unfortunate happens, causing an unstoppable taint upon
it. Tragically, the people who enter this area suffer this curse as
well. What are they, or it? In order to have understanding of these
malignant forces, unconventional thinking works best here. We see that
intangibles such as rage & terror can essentially be considered
energies, and when these energies grow they become aware of others. And
there is no escape.

I apologize for not being quite articulate...I just saw the movie.
SUBTLE SCENE SPOILER BELOW: One particular scene I found highly
upsetting was when the husband tried to come to the aid of his wife in
the darkened upstairs bedroom. He ran in there, and she was lying on
the bed breathing hard and shallow. In shock, her panting became
increasingly shallow...as her husband approached her, he touched her
and kept calling her name to shake her out of it. Frightened of seeing
her this way, and wondering what is causing it, his voice rises in
panic...as her breathing is more intense and her eyes are glassed over
in terror. On the other side of the bed it rises fast...and even in the
shape of a child, its body still seems ashen and somehow malformed.
Husband yells at the site of it...then the eyes, out of the child-thing
seem so abnormal as a sound tears out of its mouth with such rage its
almost deafening...the child-thing disappears. The sound so hostile,
nightmarish & long the woman freezes in bed, too terrified to look at
it, she dies with her face contorted with fear. And he could do
nothing. The husband backs away searching for it and escaping at the
same time...he doesn't make it. Not even going to describe it. Adjoined
with the horror of this terrible situation, I felt sad. A woman thinks
she can safely enter the refuge of her bedroom. And a man thinks he can
protect her. But with something that defies description, they no longer
can control their world. When the feeling of a place turns sour,
sometimes you cant fight it. And when something, that seems like a
child, has now become the most terrifying moment in your (his)
life...there is no way he can fight it. From beginning to end this will
leave you very shaken.

IMDb Thoughts: by mrkendall-1 it's a CURSE not some zombie monster
hiding in corners doing all the killing. It's all mental. How the curse
affects Doug is different than how it affects Karen. It's all mental.
kind of like freddy kruger attacking in you dreams, not in real life.
Kayako is a curse that takes over the persons mental state. She death
frights Doug quicker because he's a weak minded character. Karen knows
more about what's happening, she's able to be defiant and able to
battle it mentally better. The old woman who survived so long in the
house because her mind wasn't right, she had dementia... It's pretty
typical in Japanese Horror films for the police to come in and see a
logical explanation for what happened. Like the couple in the attic. I
think the detective says something about the husband murdering the wife
and killing himself.. but we all know what happened because we saw what
they saw, but this may not have happened in real life.

that's what everybody's not understanding, J-Horror is more the
psychological terror the monster does on the person than the physical
horror.

 

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