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Ringu (1998)
Great Horror (without gore or CGI) Film
Sound. No music. A woman who crawls out of a television. One of the most terrifying scene I've ever seen in a movie.
Ring (and Ring 2 BTW) is a movie that will haunt you long after you've seen it. The story is quite simple (a woman with long hair on a videotape), the pace is slow, but the tension is ever present.
Not unlike Cure (another great Japanese film), you never know what's going to happen. No music to announce an attack, no gore, nothing. Only slowly building tension, never knowing... The couple of Japanese Horror films I've seen seem to be all slow paced, but it adds so much to the horror.
The use of sound in the movie and it's sequel (by the same director) is breathtaking. Removing a grate from a well sounds like hundreds of damned souls screaming. It has to be seen and heard to understand.
So go see this movie before Hollywood does a remake with lots of special effects and scary music. Don't be put off by the subtitles. Let yourself be drawn in by the slowly building tension and, as the director told us at the North American Première of Ring 2 at the Fantasia film festival in Montreal, : "Relax and enjoy".
patrick massé
Cure (1997)
Slow, poetic, beautiful and chilling.
Just seen this movie at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. And WOW! Slow, poetic, beautiful horror/detective film. One of the most chilling movies I've seen (with Ring).
The Japanese seem to know how to use sound to terrify and fascinate. A washing machine, waves, voices, almost no music. Add to that superb images great acting and (listen Hollywood) an INTELLIGENT story.
Go see this movie.
patrick massé