what is your favorite horror flick?

They\'re also remaking Ju-On (The Grudge).

But I hate it when distributors pick up a foreign title and never intends to release it (*looks at Miramax*). Perhaps they figure the general audience can\'t figure out how to read subtitles (or, more correct I think, they\'re afraid the superior movie will take business from a remake), but in 9 out of 10 times the original movie is better than the remake.

Oh well. At least I can buy them on DVD.

Originally posted by Samwise
They\'re also remaking Ju-On (The Grudge).

But I hate it when distributors pick up a foreign title and never intends to release it (*looks at Miramax*). Perhaps they figure the general audience can\'t figure out how to read subtitles (or, more correct I think, they\'re afraid the superior movie will take business from a remake), but in 9 out of 10 times the original movie is better than the remake.

Oh well. At least I can buy them on DVD.

Correct me if I am wrong. it has been months sice I ordered dark water, but isn\'t that JU-On? The little girl in the raincoat? I have problems with some of the original japanese names.

No, I believe Ju-On is about a haunted house. Dunno what Dark Water is called in the original language though. I also tend to get confused from time to time.

Originally posted by Samwise
No, I believe Ju-On is about a haunted house. Dunno what Dark Water is called in the original language though. I also tend to get confused from time to time.

I will go on the look for this one then. Most of the time I end up describing the movie instead of the name. If I mention the name to most of my friends they lose interest. If I explain the story they tend to be more interested.

Dark Water = Honogurai mizu no soko kara
The Grudge = Ju-On (well, Ju-On: The Grudge)

So now that should be cleared up.
But I still haven\'t seen either one of them yet.

I have The Eye (Jian gui) on DVD though... I believe that one\'s Korean (made by the Pang brothers).

The eye is a decent flick. Not one of my favorites, but it is better than Dark Water. Btw i will never even type the jap name of it.

I so want to go into a spoiler for the eye, but I will refrain.

My memory of Ju-on is coming back I think. If I am not mistaken this time. It was once a japanese tv show, and then made into a movie. Thus the reason I stayed away from it. I think.

Do you have a multi-region player yet? I could not live without mine at this point. New movies for the most part suck. The only creative movie makers for the most part appear to be in the orient. For some reason when movies hit Korea they get an english dub, and are still legit. I think that is where most of my asian movies have come from.

Yeah, I\'ve always had region free DVD players. I like the larger selection (R1 DVDs, R3, R4 etc.). Most of my DVD\'s are R2 (European) but I also have some R1\'s and R3\'s.

EDIT: I don\'t think there\'s any reason to stay away from Ju-On... I heard it\'s quite scary. Dunno about the TV series thing - but wasn\'t Ringu made into a TV series also?

Do you guys get any of those movies in theaters? I\'ve seen both Ringu and The Eye in theaters here (in fact I was the only one there watching Ringu... pretty creepy ). I think Ju-On was also released some time ago, but unfortunatly I never got to watch it (so I\'ll get the DVD sometime ).

Atleast where I live we do not get a Japanese Horror flicks. I would be happy beyond belief if so.

So I do for the most part blind buys. My next purchase was going to be stacy, but I may go ahead and do Ju-On.

The us is also making a ring 2. It will not follow the storyline of ring 2 either. I suppose it will be a movie about more silly horses or some bs.


Edit: I just ordered juon. Should be here in a week or so.

Originally posted by Capcom
Edit: I just ordered juon. Should be here in a week or so.

Please do a review when you\'ve seen it.

Originally posted by Samwise
Please do a review when you\'ve seen it.

Will do.

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Miramax is a bunch of dickheads. They made it "illegal" to import \'Hero\' and apparently are goin\' to cut and edit it to death for the American audiences.

Silly rabbits. I saw it in the theatre and it was quite good. Some people thought it was corny or whatever. To those people I say... Bah.