ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

FolkHorror Format: Amazon Prime - Language: Japanese (English Subtitled) Released: 2009Director: Ryut MiyakeStarring: Hiroki Suzuki, Ichirota Miyakawa, Naysuki KasaWhere to start? Well it's short, which is a blessing! To be strictly fair to the film it does start out well enough, with the initial building up of tension that I have come to expect from Japanese horror films; then sadly, rather then building on the initial success, the whole thing falls apart.Ju-On: White Ghost is the story of a house that was the location of a brutal mass murder. The film consists of a series of short segments, each one showcasing the history of a different character and setting out why they eventually come to their various unfortunate ends, as well as giving the background to the murders.As a direct to DVD film it is very low budget and it shows, badly. Yet for all the appallingly bad and cringe-worthy acting there are occasional moments of great, outstanding performance; for all the unbelievably poor stories there are some strong, genuinely creepy tales.At an hour long it is worth sitting though the rubbish mainly because when this film gets it right, even with the cringe fest that some of the actors put us through, it delivers some genuine scares. It just unfortunate that director, Ryuta Miyake, comes across as not having the slightest clue about how to make/direct a film.Like this film this is really all I can think of to say on the matter, short and pretty much lacking in any direction.

adonis98-743-186503 Akane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child. The Ju-On film series is probably the worst horror series i have seen and the movies are just neither scary or even at least a bit fun to say the least. Their dull, boring and just a huge waste of time and money since neither of them offer anything new except some new faces and new names other than that their the same exact horribly mess of movies that don't do anything new or offer any actual originality as a whole i'm afraid and that's bad.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Normally I am very fond of Japanese horror movies, and in overall then the "Ju-On" series have been adequate; the Japanese originals of course, not the abysmal Hollywood cash-in on the success of the Japanese movies.However, this 2009 installment in the franchise was a swing and a miss.First of all, the production level of the entire movie feels like something I could have done myself as an audience. It just lacks proper production value to be a proper movie.The story was fragmented and a scrambled mess of a story, that made very little coherent sense.The acting in the movie was adequate, although the actors and actresses had nothing to work with."Ju-on: Shiroi rôjo" had fair special effects, but they were far from being great mind you.There was nothing scary about the movie at all, which made it a very dull and pointless experience to sit through. Especially if you compare it to the previous installments in the franchise.This is definitely not a Japanese horror movie that you should rush out to invest your time or money in.

Leofwine_draca JU-ON: WHITE GHOST is an hour-long follow up to the original GRUDGE films that was made back-to-back with companion film JU-ON: BLACK GHOST. These films continue the same mythos as in the first two feature-length movies, adding in new characters and allowing them to get haunted by the ghost from the original.Let's be fair: these are straight-to-video short films so quality-wise they're not going to be on par with the first two features. But JU-ON: WHITE GHOST isn't too bad. The central female ghost is watered down and CGI-ed up since the original, so not as frightening, but is acceptable for a straight-to-video horror flick.At an hour long you can never get bored by this, and the story plays out as a bunch of five minute vignettes that only begin to make sense towards the climax. Indeed, trying to work out the film's mixed-up chronology keeps the interest level high. The acting is of a strong standard throughout and there's a mix of scary and gory moments to keep viewers watching.