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...
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...
In general, Hollywood horror movies feature fast-paced action scenes and dramatic background music, but Japanese horror tends to be subtle and unique, differentiating and separating the genre from other types of horror. In recent years, Hollywood has started producing its own remakes of these Japan...
The original Ringu, made for a little more than $1 million in five weeks by Hideo Nakata, went on to gross well over $100 million and kick-started the J-Horror wave that saw two U.S. remakes, the second of which Nakata directed. Sadako 3D 2 is slated for an Aug. 30 release by ...
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...
Millenium Media are now circulating the Rambo Franchise. Millenium Media are the same ones behind the Expendable franchise, the Has Fallen line of movies and The Mechanic movies. All in all, action movie connoisseurs. But what they want to do with the Rambo franchise is a little interesting -...
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...
[fresh_video url=”http://youtu.be/OzXbJtt406U”] And just like examples such as Scorsese’sThe Departed, this trailer shows that remakes/reinterpretations have the potential to work when translated for a foreign audience. Watanabe is sure to be stellar in the role, the plot seems to fo...
The ongoing boom in these remakes has been fueled in part by the enthusiasm of people in the industry who grew up reading and watching the originals. “Nobody Knows” starring Yuya Yagira, the first Japanese to win the best actor prize at the Cannes film festival, has been a hit at...
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...