In 1998, Hideo Nakata premiered the most successful Japanese horror film in history. ‘The Ring’ – or ‘Ringu’, as it is also known throughout the world – redefined the genre and marked the beginning of a series of films with a very recognizable identity: long -haired ghostic women, spectral appearancesinexplicable and spooky deaths supernatural sounds. From ‘El Pozo’ to ‘Dark Water’, going through ‘Lost call’ and by ‘Ju-on: the curse’. The latter is one of the most terrifying Japanese fear productions without any doubt.
“It is said in Japan that when someone dies in an extreme penalty or anger, The emotion remains And you can leave a stain in that place. “That resentment, that hatred, that sadness adheres to the place, almost as if it were a second skin. Those who are unfortunate enough to set foot in the area die without remedy, in strange circumstances.
A story told through the eyes of different protagonists
Directed by Takashi Shimizu, this saga is composed of several films, including the North American versions and the ‘Ju-on: Origins’ miniseries, which premiered in Netflix. In the original version, the plot focuses on several characters, so the story is seen through the eyes of Rika, Katsuya, Hitomi, Izuma y Toyama. This narrative structure gives it some dynamism. The American adaptation, on the other hand, simplifies the argument and focuses on the character played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (‘Buffy Hunting Vampires’).
It all starts with Rika, a social assistant who takes care of an old woman at home. Strange things begin to happensince on the top floor appears a bluish skin child, which takes a black cat in arms.
The film plays with the sound, the noise of voices and supernatural grunts, the presence of the ghosts and that characteristic aesthetic of women of long black hair, which They move in impossible positionsarachnid.
Revenge is the main theme of ‘Ju-on’. The cruel murder of a woman feeds the appearance of the vindictive spirit of Kayako, a spectrum that terrifies the protagonists and the spectator himself.
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