Post by morrisondylanfan on Oct 29, 2018 23:17:06 GMT
Hi all,after recently catching Ringu (1995),I decided to view the beginnings of the other major J-Horror franchise.
Viewing half a dozen Horror flicks shot in low-res digital video over the years,this has been a format where I've never fully enjoyed a movie shot in this method (it is so flat!) until now:
Ju-on: The Curse (2000) (The Grudge) 7
Filmed on low-res digital video, (a popular format used on low budget Horror in the early 2000’s) for the straight to video market, writer/director Takashi Shimizu & cinematographer Nobuhito Kitsugi cleverly use the flatness from the low-res shooting format to give the horror shocks a stinging atmosphere, with the panning shots round the house sliding straight into the jump-scare ghosts. Performing the eerie sound-effects himself,Shimizu covers the house in a prime J-Horror atmosphere of people chillingly standing round completely still, and the thrilling sight of Kayako Saeki crawling towards her first victim. The first in the series to get the official “Ju-On” title, the screenplay by Shimizu centres a loose anthology of six stories around a cursed house with a grudge. Speeding by in 70 mins, Shimizu allows each tale to place another layer of despair and ghostly screeches in a house which holds a grudge.
With Eng Subs:
Viewing half a dozen Horror flicks shot in low-res digital video over the years,this has been a format where I've never fully enjoyed a movie shot in this method (it is so flat!) until now:
Ju-on: The Curse (2000) (The Grudge) 7
Filmed on low-res digital video, (a popular format used on low budget Horror in the early 2000’s) for the straight to video market, writer/director Takashi Shimizu & cinematographer Nobuhito Kitsugi cleverly use the flatness from the low-res shooting format to give the horror shocks a stinging atmosphere, with the panning shots round the house sliding straight into the jump-scare ghosts. Performing the eerie sound-effects himself,Shimizu covers the house in a prime J-Horror atmosphere of people chillingly standing round completely still, and the thrilling sight of Kayako Saeki crawling towards her first victim. The first in the series to get the official “Ju-On” title, the screenplay by Shimizu centres a loose anthology of six stories around a cursed house with a grudge. Speeding by in 70 mins, Shimizu allows each tale to place another layer of despair and ghostly screeches in a house which holds a grudge.
With Eng Subs: