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After discovering his wife Kayako has a deep crush on her college friend Shunsuke Kobayashi, Illustrator Takeo Saeki murdered her, their son Toshio and the family cat Mar, then deserted his house. The anger and sorrow surrounding the murder created a curse that turned its inhabitants into Onry. Whoever enters the house in Nerima, Tokyo, or even those associating themselves with someone who has entered the house will be affected and claimed by the curse, spreading its influence at the place they die and claiming more victims.

Ju-On The Curse is a Japanese horror movie released in 2000, and is the first official movie in the Ju-On franchise which is perhaps best known for The Grudge. Being my first foray into live action Japanese cinema, not just for their selection of horror, I wasn't sure exactly what to expect going in but regardless I don't regret jumping into the world of Japanese horror. Ju-On is filmed as a series of 6 vignettes told in non chronological order and tell the story of a man, named Takeo Saeki, who discovers that his wife Kayako has a crush on her friend from college, and not being one to fancy the idea of a little netorare, Takeo murders his wife, son, and cat in a fit of jealous rage, turning them into Onryo. And as the films opening segment notes, "When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage... A curse is born. The curse gathers in that place of death. Those who encounter it will be consumed by its fury. Those who survive will carry the curse with them...until it is reborn". The order in which the scenes play out definitely help make Ju-On more interesting and scary because if it had been put in chronological order this would definitely be an incredibly slow burning movie, even more so than the original Alien, although at least this would have some atmosphere. The way the scenes are shot and story unfolds at first my seem quite static and amateurish but there's just something about them that sets up a persistent atmosphere of unease, which is pretty impressive given that the film takes place almost entirely in well lit scenes; and are done so in a way that feels fresh to me, I honestly am not sure what movie I could even compare it to to be honest. Ju-On: The Curse is not a particularly graphic movie, certainly more than the original Halloween but a lot of it is obscured; so if the sight of blood or mutilation makes you squeamish, you should be pretty much fine apart from the vignettes known as Kanna, and Kayako. Actually now that I think about it Ju-On; The Curse has another thing in common with the original Halloween from 1978, it doesn't have a focus on kills or gore but instead ops for a steady sense of tension all throughout the film, provided Halloween is a significantly scarier film with more iconic kills but I digress, that film likely had a higher budget and had different goals in mind to achieve. If I had any critiques for Ju-On: The Curse it would mainly boil down to it really feeling low budget and just how cheesy and utterly goofy the noises that the Onryo make are. So overall, in spite of being ultra low budget, to the point of where I'm fairly certain it had a budget as much as if not half that of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974, Ju-On: The Curse is an original effective movie that I would highly recommend and I would give it a 7 out of 10.

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Later, "Ju-on: The Curse" was released on TV. The first feature film in the series that tells six different intertwined stories, including the before and after events of the two previous short films.

And in the same year was also released "Ju-on: The Curse 2", which recounts part of the storyline of the first movie during the first half-hour and continues the plot about the curse with a few more interrelated stories, but in a more chronological order than the previous one.

Good V-Cinema Lord above, I love shot-on-video early 2000s Japanese horror. Why? I really don't know. But it has a low budget charm that I find endearing and spooky. It's been a while since I watched the cinematic version Ju-On, but I think I had a better time watching this cheaper prototype. The storytelling is a little convoluted and it's full of dodgy music cues. It should be shit. Yet it works so well. There's a quiet creepiness to it that has my skin tingling. The cat kid ghost and the gurgling Kayoko are so disturbing. The first scene featuring Kayako is absolutely pants-shittingly scary. A truly great fuzzy nightmare of gawping mouths and ominous cupboards. Also, it's so cool to see Chiaki Kuriyama in this.

"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.

The ending is particularly unsettling. It depicts what appears to be a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where the curse has spread to the streets. There are tons of missing persons posters, personal objects abandoned, and it is deathly quiet. Is this the inevitable outcome for the curse, or just a nightmarish fantasy that the undead Rika suffers from? We may never know.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the franchise, Ju-On: White Ghost and Black Ghost were released, a pair of interconnected movies that tell original stories. This is what Ju-On has been lacking: exploring new grudges and curses. Aside from a couple of cameos by Toshio, the Saekis are nowhere in sight.

Ju-On: The Curse finds Shimizu experimenting with the unusual chronology and fragmented storytelling that would define the franchise, introducing us to the backstory of his two ghosts through a series of six linked segments. We are introduced to a house in Tokyo and the horrible event that kicks the story off, as artist Takeo Saeki murders his wife Kayako, son Toshio and cat Mar in a jealous rage. Now, anyone who enters the house becomes cursed and dies at the hands of their vengeful spirits.

Masayuki Ochiai and Takashige Ichise brought their retconned mythos back for a second outing that goes further down the rabbit hole, recasting Toshio as an actual devil child who is the centre of the curse, with Kayako his enabler and Takeo somehow now a victim. This turns the entire story inside out and makes very little sense, so the death curse now just kills everyone who even so much as looks at anyone else in a series of loosely connected scenes. ff782bc1db