Ju-on

First i was disappointed to see that it was a TV movie i had bought, but after 10 minutes of watching it i didn't give it much of a thought. This movie is simply just entertaining from beginning to end. There is no limit to the imagination of creepiness in this movie, all thanks to my new favorite horror director Takashi Shimizu. The fact, that its like Shimizu has thought " I would like to make a movie that scares the s*** out of everyone and then to hell with everything else" really makes me raise my thumbs up and bow in the dust for the man. This Flick is on my top 3 list of the scariest movies ever, together with "The shining" and "Salems lot". If i had seen this one when i was 13 i would have been horrified for stairs years to come (just like i was horrified for windows without curtains for about 5 years, after seeing "Salems lot"), thats for sure.

Note: You don't have to use blood for a movie to be scary. The Japanese have realized that, why cant the Americans???

The reason that i didn't give this movie 10 out of 10 is because i find it hard to keep track of all the names (maybe because I'm not Japanese?)and i miss some answers in this riddle of a ghost story. And yes, i HAVE seen the other 3 in the series. And no, you Don't get much more insight, just more confused. They are still some excellent horror movies though, especially Ju-on: The grudge 2. But the first one is still the most scary.

I gave it 9 out of 10. Enjoy! ;o)

Ps. If anyone knows movies as scary as the above mentioned, please write me the titles so i can continue my search for the scariest horror movie ever.

Although the first two movies of the Ju-on series were super low-budget direct-to-video affairs, I find this first one holds its own next to -- and is in many ways still creepier than -- the 2002 theatrical box office smash.

This movie establishes the curse that stems from the murder of a young woman, Kayako, and her son, Toshio, by Kayako's jealous husband. The movie jumps around in time, playing scenes out of sequence in a way that is more interesting dramatically than if it had all been drawn out chronologically.

Takashi Shimizu relies upon generating an eerie mood, a nonstop aura of unease that permeates each scene, to creep audiences out, rather than by throwing gore and special effects at you in the way American horror films usually do. (In fact, the one CGI effects shot in this movie is its cheesiest; they just haven't got the budget to pull it off.) By the time we finally see Kayako crawling down the stairs, we've been put so ill at ease by one inexplicable, disturbing event after another that the first sight of her is bloodcurdling.

In all, Ju-on is a swell example of how to generate chills with next to no money but boundless imagination and talent.

8/10

This is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few classics (F13'th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Exocist, you get the picture). I'd already established, after seeing Ringu, that even a pretty tame Asian horror flick is probably scarier than most Western ones. Face it, they can just scare people better. But Juon, as short as it is, may very well win the cup for the scariest. This was a TV movie, and from what I can see, about the only effects they used were fake blood and Photoshop (you'll know what scene I'm talking about once you see it). This was because of the noticably low budget. But the effects they did have were put to fine use to provide the maximum scaring effect. The movie is about a Juon, which is a Japanese idea about a curse started when one dies a horrible death, and killing all who come in contact with it, creating more Juons. It is basically a series of 6 or 7 scenes about a Juon started in a house that spreads to everybody who goes in the house afterwards. The scenes loosely connect together, but you'll have to read between the lines until you can get Juon 2. Or you could buy both at the same time ;). At the end of the movie you know what happened on camera, but you don't know why. Audiences are forced to hypothesize, keeping in mind the idea of "Juons" that was introduced at the beginning of the film. While many sequels blow up their prequel's perfectly good resolution and open the story back up, the movie Juon never really has a resolution, so the sequel is so necessary that it was obviously planned to be a two-part excursion. When I say sequel, I'm not talking about the two theatrical releases, those are more remakes, I'm talking about the second TV movie. I just finished the first tonight, but I can't wait to see the second. Lots of gruesome images and things. If Ringu gave you chills, this is like Ringu on steroids.

"Ju-On" has to be one of the creepiest horror films I have ever seen.Essentially the ghost story,it tells four interconnected stories that are all tied to the same house and the events that happened there.The film is extremely moody as it has almost dream-like atmosphere.The manifestations of spirits in "Ju-On" are so sudden and bone-chilling that it will surely make your skin crawl.Personally I think that the idea of the blood curse of the house(the grudge)is well-developed and the acting is decent.It's nice to see also Chiaki Kuriyama as a schoolgirl Mizuho Tamura.So if you are a fan of creepy Japanese horror you can't miss it.Highly recommended.

Ju-on: the Curse is absolutely the scariest movie ever made. I found myself gasping out loud at times. Forget cheap scares, forget the need for special effects. Forget even the need for a dark setting. Most of the scenes are in broad daylight, yet they will nearly scare you to death. I've seen a lot of horror movies, but I can easily say that nothing compares to this one. Takashi Shimizu has mastered the art of bringing terror to the screen. If there really were such a thing as ghost, really mean, really vengeful ghost, this is what they would be like. I should note that Ju-on the Curse is really two movies, Curse I and II. The second has some overlapping material, but adequately compliments the first. If you want to be frightened, really really frightened, this is the one to watch.