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 - so much better than "The Grudge"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. Rating:  - Minimalism and scarinessThis 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. Rating:  - The SludgeTrue 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. Rating: - Not worth my 25 centsSome guy that was really into horror movies told me this was the scariest movie he'd ever seen. Since I'm a horror movie junkie, with a great appreciation for B-lists, I gave this movie a try. It was NOT worth the 25 cents I paid plus shipping and handling. I proceeded to give that guy a roundhouse kick. Rating: - The Original is the Best!!It is sad that they made "The Grudge" for america, They should have redubbed this in english. The Grudge Movies suck!! If you are goin to watch one, watch JU-ON(The Grudge). It maybe low budget but it's better!! By the way I'm not goin to tell you about the movie, it would ruin it for you, I will say it's worth the buy!! I rate this movie a 8 from 1to10!!
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