Asian Horror

J-Horror

“Ju-On: The Grudge” 2003 Takashi Shimizu

Movie Notes and Tropes

Open with definition of “Ju-On”, basically a haunting spirit

Murder montage, disturbing music

Swinging gently chandelier, stuff everywhere

Huge, spacious house, sparsely furnished

Spooky elder woman, unresponsive

Tension builds while investigating scratching noises

Black cat (Bad luck) and mysterious child

Creaky stairs

Creepy child is creepy

Old woman speaking to/tormented by ghost(s)

Another creepy, creaking child

Kazoumi is attacked by the ghost boy/cat, is paralyzed?

Catboy screeches, Katsuya and Kazoumi are affected by the spirit, under it’s control

Painfully high pitched ringing

Hatoumi in long dim hallway, swishing noises follow

Creaking girl prank call

Dark shadow/ ghost black hair girl kills security guard (Hatoumi now super vulnerable)

Catboy in every window

Girl ghost shift-shapes into Katsuya, no one can be trusted!

Creepy TV glitching

Hatoumi is taken, now 3 main characters probably dead, only Rika (the caretaker) alive (and mom of course)

Find history of house, every previous family has died or disappeared, also know that a man Sakei killed his family there

Dead guy under the sink

Detective watches security guard murder and other detective stuff on tapes late at night

Spirits now in his house, creepy crawling

Doesn’t show them actually harming people, leaves it to your imagination

Everyone is dead except Rika

Eyes of the haunted/deceased people blurred out in photographs

Old man playing peekaboo with ghost boy

Ghost girl covered in blood, creaking down the stairs like a spider

Ends with Rika being murdered by dad Sakei?