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Watched Takashi Shimizu's 2002 film Ju-On: The Grudge (呪怨). An interesting J-Horror classic and very creepy. There are moments that probably would be considered as jump scares when it first was released but nowadays it's an entertaining spooky experience. Great tone and concept as well.

Now I will admit that I did get lost on the narrative because it's non-linear. I didn't even realise the [ISPOILER]last segment was the same character as before[/ISPOILER] because of its direction. That said, the film is overall a decent time - does it live up to the years of anticipation? Not really, but was it worth the watch? Yeah. I would say One Missed Call and Ringu are better though on the fear factor.

How I watched the film was via Arrow Video's 4K Ultra HD release and it looked pretty good for its presentation.The rest of the Ju-On titles in the box set are on Blu-ray only but that's fine. Similar to Ringu how the main film got the 4K restoration whilst the rest didn't.

<blockquote data-quote="NormanicGrav" data-source="post: 660970" data-attributes="member: 119">[ATTACH=full]31190[/ATTACH]Watched Takashi Shimizu's 2002 film Ju-On: The Grudge (呪怨). An interesting J-Horror classic and very creepy. There are moments that probably would be considered as jump scares when it first was released but nowadays it's an entertaining spooky experience. Great tone and concept as well.Now I will admit that I did get lost on the narrative because it's non-linear. I didn't even realise the [ISPOILER]last segment was the same character as before[/ISPOILER] because of its direction. That said, the film is overall a decent time - does it live up to the years of anticipation? Not really, but was it worth the watch? Yeah. I would say One Missed Call and Ringu are better though on the fear factor.How I watched the film was via Arrow Video's 4K Ultra HD release and it looked pretty good for its presentation.The rest of the Ju-On titles in the box set are on Blu-ray only but that's fine. Similar to Ringu how the main film got the 4K restoration whilst the rest didn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NormanicGrav, post: 660970, member: 119"] [ATTACH type="full" width="400px" alt="Ju-On The Grudge 1.jpg"]31190[/ATTACH] Watched Takashi Shimizu's 2002 film [B]Ju-On: The Grudge (呪怨)[/B]. An interesting J-Horror classic and very creepy. There are moments that probably would be considered as jump scares when it first was released but nowadays it's an entertaining spooky experience. Great tone and concept as well. Now I will admit that I did get lost on the narrative because it's non-linear. I didn't even realise the [ISPOILER]last segment was the same character as before[/ISPOILER] because of its direction. That said, the film is overall a decent time - does it live up to the years of anticipation? Not really, but was it worth the watch? Yeah. I would say One Missed Call and Ringu are better though on the fear factor. How I watched the film was via Arrow Video's 4K Ultra HD release and it looked pretty good for its presentation.The rest of the Ju-On titles in the box set are on Blu-ray only but that's fine. Similar to Ringu how the main film got the 4K restoration whilst the rest didn't. [/QUOTE]