Kanji Tsuda, Kayoko Shibata, Megumi Okina
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
DVD Release Date: November 9, 2004
Stats: 1,709 reviews
This is a remarkable movie. When compared to American films of a similar nature, the ghost stories of Asia tend to be subtly crafted tales of chilling suspense host to a plethora of pasty yurei wielding the power of unrelenting, unblinking passive-aggressiveness. Ju-on, however...( read more)
Although the word "grudge" doesn't quite fit the bill as part of the title of a horror film -- one thinks THE CURSE would have been more appropriate but such is the "curse" of translation -- JU ON holds up extremely well as a horror film. Built upon a notion that when someone die...( read more)
-Clueless person enters haunted house
-Long haired female ghost and a kid that ate a cat grabs said person
-Repeat this till oblivion.
If this film was any longer I don't think I'd have had the patience to sit through it. Frankly, it only makes occasional sense and the deliberately confusing narrative, replete with unacknowledged shifts in time, would still annoy if it even bothered to explain itself. I'm not th...( read more)
how scary can a movie be? this movie is so much better than the american version. Although i love american movies, they cant capture the darkness and intensity like the japanese original. The bed scene still pops in my mind
Humming into a floor fan will never be the same again.
This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the Best Horror Films of the 2000s
While the film wouldn't go on my list of horror classics -- the acting is often stagey, the effects are cheesy, and one particular groaning floorboard sound effect is drastically overused -- it is an ... full review
A slightly muddled but still powerful ghost story. full review
A nearly bloodless and scare-free exercise in futility, jumping from scene to scene with very little continuity and even less comprehension of the concept of true fear. full review
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