Japanese Horror
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It seems more Japanese horror movies such as The Ring and the Grudge are showing up in the US. Japanese horrors tend to have a different approach then most horrors that involve monsters, such as Elm Street or Chainsaw people. What is scarier, the US or Japanese horrors? And why?
Personally, I feel the Japanese horrors due to the fact most of it is left up to the imagination. The "monsters" aren't really there that long, but long enough for your mind to wander into what could happen next. The US horrors portray monsters as living entities, things you can kill, which I find less scary.
It seems more Japanese horror movies such as The Ring and the Grudge are showing up in the US. Japanese horrors tend to have a different approach then most horrors that involve monsters, such as Elm Street or Chainsaw people. What is scarier, the US or Japanese horrors? And why?
Personally, I feel the Japanese horrors due to the fact most of it is left up to the imagination. The "monsters" aren't really there that long, but long enough for your mind to wander into what could happen next. The US horrors portray monsters as living entities, things you can kill, which I find less scary.
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doesn't always have to be evolution, war, politics and all that stuff...
I'll start off, do you think The Ring or the Grudge was a good horror
movie in the sense that it instilled fear into you...
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They do. It keeps all that crap out of here.
EDIT: Asshat removed
Well, I think they seem to be better, cause of imagination. The monster films identify what the monster is, and how do kill it. Ghost films tend to have no rational explanation and your head ends up creating a scary looking picture...
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Its just not a discussions topic unless someones feelings are being hurt <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
threads tend to derail rather quickly, and things in the discussion forums
doesn't always have to be evolution, war, politics and all that stuff...
I'll start off, do you think The Ring or the Grudge was a good horror
movie in the sense that it instilled fear into you... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because there is no discussion - Japanese horrors are better <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So much tension, so much build-up, and generally nothing held back on the horrifying reality of the conclusion. Western horrors are all about scary imagry and 'the big baddie', with lots of focus on keeping the story going with 'mini shocks' and disturbing things which are very apparent at face value.
Japanese horrors, in my experience, are a LOT more subtle, and generally are quite passive for a lot of the movie but slowly building up questions and fears without ever fully manifesting them, until the end where something horrible is realised or occurs. I think because all the straight out horror is kept to the end, it makes it much more powerful and less desensitising.
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Discussion means you express an opinion or topic, and indicate a question for people to ponder over. "Japanese horror is freaky." Is an offtoic thread, "Why is Japanese horror so freaky? What cultural references and differences bring this up," is a Discussion topic.
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Japanese movies are in many aspects superior to Hollywood movies of the present time.
Hollywood is degraded to churning out popcorn movies. Especially the overuse of CGI technology and the fact that more emphasys is laid on post production than actual filming is a catastrophy. I can count the movies that I actually watched in a movie theatre the last years on my two hands.
Of course not every japanese movie is a piece of art ....
But those who are considered exceptional and make it abroad, both anime and real movies, are in their way fascinating.
My favorite is that the japanese usually avoid the black and white storytelling and the deliberate happy ending which is an obligatory to Hollywood productions.
The bad guys do have faces and motivations and often are equally well developed that the heroes. In many aspects, the new japanese movie ( japanese movie industry was next to nonexistant in the past 30 years, exept the booming anime market and just recently is coming back to the international scene) reminds me of the young hollywood that revitalised the US movie during the 70s.
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Yeah! Wild Zero! Best trash movie since braindead! Strike that! best trash since Army of Darkness.... no strike that too. Best since Bad Taste.... Arrgg best trash EVAR!!!
Seriously. That flick is so damn bad but it rocks. Watch it drunk, you are going to wet your pants. Not because of fear though....
I hate that character. So much.
Japanese ghost movies are generally humorless. They tend to rely more on the suspense and plot than the blood and guts humor of American horror. Some people find American horror movies to be scary, but let's face it: half of us moviegoers aren't scared by most American horror. We are horrified or humored by it.
In these newer Japanese movies, they show alot more of their characters. We get to know them and go along with them as they solve the mystery of the story. In American horror, we laugh or avert our eyes to some stupid character being killed in a crazy fashion.
I'd say if you like the suspense and fear brought about by Jap "horror" or "ghost" flicks, than you're obviously going to prefer them.
take the ambient sound + music away from a movie... it isn't scary!
You HEAR a scary movie... not see one.
Play The Ring, or whatever movie scares you badly, and watch it on mute... with some soft jazz or perhaps "Top Gun- Ride into the Danger Zone" in the background. You wont' be scared, unless you sit 3 inches from the TV screen.
I mean you make a good point, with sound being the most important factor in creating an ambient sense of fear and all though.
I was in a Japanese "Haunted House" once:
2(The Ring + The Grudge)+Psychological Monsters
No gore, except for a bunch of bloody hand prints on a rag + a disembodied hand. The real scare wasn't the Monsters either, there was like two, one of those long neck human monsters.
I would have to say this was the most scary due to the sounds generated by the "ghost" and that wierd music that plays in scary movies that sounds like your in a cave or something. Also because you don't SEE the ghost, she isn't an tangible entity, so your imagination needs to take wild guesses where it comes next...not to mention the house itself, it played a MAJOR role in conveying the fear. The right placements of blue lights, green lights, and pulsing red lights made it scary in it's own right...
EDIT: Now I think about, have any of you every played any Japanese horror games? I've played a single horror game in my life...NS doesn't count, Aliens are more scared of the Marines...