SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Linus A heart thrilling movie with an interesting story, with a ghostly and intense atmosphere, the story in this movie makes it stick out even more. The ghastly sounds of the monster is creepy and the make up is admirably accomplished, the movie quality is not as we are used to in todays movie, however it gives an impression that its real life which adds an extra scary feeling. The composer got the soundtracks just right, perfectly appropriate for this movie, the director really wanted to creep out the audience with the cat sounds from an innocent little pale boy, and the make up on the victims who tend to move around, despite being such bad quality they figured out the camera angles to the very best points to show what need to be shown.

Vivekmaru45 The script, screenplay. direction and acting is superb. The photography is very intelligently done and shows the REALISM OF DAY-TO-DAY life.Director Takashi Shimizu is in full control of the film at all times and takes on a voyage of sheer horror.Ju-on is a curse that kills all that it touches and keeps on spreading outwards. The only thing I can think of here is that it resembles the pattern of a virus, wanting to infect and kill all the cells. The horror shown in the film is very disturbing, and I don't want to give away the suspense of the film.Plot: the film follows the lives of the people connected to a house in Nerima, Tokyo where a gruesome murder of a housewife occurred. School teacher Shunsuke Kobayashi visits the home of his absent student, Saeki Toshio, where he discovers Toshio beaten and bruised. He waits for Toshio's parents to come. The movie also explores the fates of the next family to live in the house, the Murakami family, as well as two people who come into contact with them. Ju-on is an extension of the film Katasumi and 4444444444 (shown within television movie Gakkō no kaidan G). 4444444444 follows the death of Tsuyoshi, Kanna's older brother. Tsuyoshi comes to school to meet his girlfriend, Mizuho, and finds a mysterious ringing cell phone whose caller ID shows a strange number, 4444444444. (The number 4 in Japanese is a homophone of the Japanese character for "death.") The ghost of Toshio, Kayako's son and also one of the curse's fulfiller, appears and takes Tsuyoshi; his body is never found.Another sequel Ju-on 2, aka Ju-on: The Curse 2 was released in the same year. Following the success of the two direct-to-video films, and the international success of Hideo Nakata's Ring (1998), Kurosawa and Ring screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi helped Shimizu develop Ju-on as a theatrical feature starring Megumi Okina and Takako Fuji. Titled Ju-on: The Grudge, this was released in 2003 to critical acclaim, and the US remake rights were purchased, with Shimizu himself attached to direct and Sarah Michelle Gellar starring. Later that year, a theatrical sequel, Ju-on: The Grudge 2, was released. In 2004, the US remake, The Grudge, was released. The U.S version has 2 more sequels Grudge 2 and 3.Verdict: just go out and BUY THE DVD's, and enjoy on your home theater. Collect all of them: 5 original Japanese films and the 3 U.S Versions.

kai ringler Let's start off by saying that this Japanese version to me is much more scarier than the Americanized version Grudge. although this is a hard movie to follow in spots and kinda will leave you a little lost,, like what happened in that scene,, and how the heck does it relate to the next scene,, luckily the DVD that i got came with English audio, now what i found really interesting in this movie is the use of cats.. nwo you say cats,, what does cats do,, cats aren't scary,, well there is this one scene where there is like 30 or 40 cats in a room , now i wouldn't wanna be stuck in a room with that many black cats at once,, and there is also another scene to me that is very scary.. there is a woman talking on the phone to her brother and she is waiting for him to say something,, and on the other end of the phone you hear a "meow" , now to me i think that that was classic horror., lots of people will say oh the American version was better,, maybe in spots,, but as a whole movie then i would say no.

robert ries This movie is the scariest one i have seen so far. I have seen it 3 times so far and it seems to be getting scarier which each time. The dark lights and the bright make-up remind me of old theater play acting. That's probably the reason why this movie seems so real: you seem to watch a stage play from the gallery rather than actually a movie from your couch. The steady involvement of the stairway up to the attic into the story is truly sophisticated and as a prop of the movie, should be at the same eye-level of Psycho's shower curtain. Ju-On gets along without protracting. Cuts, lights and scenery are perfect. All effects are simple thus again so real. Of course, Ju-On also has to be compared to it's worst rival "Ringu": I would say that Ringu has more of a plot with an enchanting ending and as well enjoys the status of being the first movie that used cursed dead children who are striving for being revealed their mysterious and ungrateful death. And although Ju-On lacks a plot and people who watch it end up with a lot of unanswered questions, the fact that makes this movie so irresistible, is that Ju-On is so absolutely scary! Definitely scarier than Ringu! As i said: the scariest so far!