The film that launched the J-horror craze of the late-'90s and early-2000s — not to mention a string of sequels and remakes that continues to this day — Hideo Nakata'sRinguhas proven to be a surprisingly durable concept. That's despite its technology-driven premise, which in the 199...
The Grudge certainly got the closest in that regard, but The Ring also ushered in the production of remakes of Japanese horror films like Pulse, Dark Water, Shutter, and One Missed Call. Remarkably, all of the movies deal with somewhat similar ideas and feature a frightening monster that’s...
Who doesn’t love a good horror movie or... even a really terrible one? The Japanese horror genre (known by the abbreviated term “J-Horror”) has given us films, television shows, comics, and other media that are some of the spookiest, campiest, and most mind-melting within the realm...
If you want to trace the trend of Western remakes (and general obsession with) Japanese horror movies,Ringuis your patient zero. Based on a TV movie that's based on a Koji Suzuki novel,Ringuwas released in Japan in 1998. Five years later,it was remade for American audiences asThe Ring,...
After multiple remakes, sequels, parodies and crossovers, you’ll know the drill: if you receive a cursed videotape and play it, you’ll be dead in seven days via the hand of long-haired ghost girl Sadako. The original film was a smash hit at festivals and sparked a worldwide obsession...
This is a decent solution for the heartbreaks brought about by the first arrangement. Evangelion remakes ain’t awful yet this film arrangement truly nailed it. I should say that I’m exceptionally intrigued. I truly needed to watch this film on films when it was delivered, I was too covere...
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When we hear "remake" or "adaptation," we quickly set a higher standard for the movie. While some remakes, such asMidnight SunorGodzilla(1998), failed to satisfy the audience, others, such asThe Magnificent Seven(1960) andThe Ring(2002), did a slightly better job of living up to their...
6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror Section Four: Trauma’s Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Coproductions and Remakes 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child 8. Progress and Decay in the 21st Century 9. ‘Round and round, the world keeps spinning...
Club Suicide Complete Edition contains a full visual remaster, remakes of BGM with new additional tracks added in, additional scenarios included, full system remake using newly developed software. All sales since this version’s release for one whole year will be donated to the Japanese Red Cros...