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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1717947" data-attributes="member: 3570">What impressed me so much about the scares was that for me virtually none of them were "BAM blast you with volume so you jump in your seat" scares, but rather the kind that give you shivers from the base of your neck down the length of your body, like several scenes in The Exorcist or the infamous finale to The Ring.The story itself is very simple, like Amityville Horror or The Exorcist, and I'm glad they didn't over explain anything.  That's the way the Japanese tend to do it.  Compare "Ringu" to "The Ring."  The Ring explained much more (though not to its discredit, I much prefer the American remake to the original.)I thought the balance between scares and story was very well done in Ju On, and don't want to get into details as to why until everyone at least has seen the American version this October."Ju On" wasn't perfect, but its scary.  Damn scary.  Obviously movies can't scare me like when I was a kid, but I got more chills watching this movie than any film I've seen as an adult, with the possible exception of the Exorcist rerelease a few years ago (which was my first time seeing that film.)Like I said, not so much "jump in your seat" scary, but the kind of creepiness that actually made me think twice about what was lurking in the dark of my apartment as I went to bed Friday night.  That just doesn't happen anymore.  It was kinda cool.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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