The remake of Japanese's "Ju-On" is good, but it have its faults. First, the movie starts off well by having a guy takes a dive off his high-rise apartment building. From there it builds the suspense and the creepiness petty well. The jump-cut of the scenes are less confusing than the Japanese's version, I think the audience were able to follow the story line. The first half of the movie exceeds my low expectation of the remake due to all of the bad reviews that I have read. I thought this movie is not so bad after all.
But half way through the movie somehow it seems that movie starts to run out of the steam and the whole film starts to slow down greatly. The scares just doesn't seem that scary any more from the first half of the movie and I could sense restlessness amongst the audience. It seems that the director has run out of ideas on how to scare us and the film just slowly marches toward the end.
Now I am not a big fan of the FX in horror movies, but I believe the producer of this movie sticks too much to the old school of horror films. I think that a little special effects would greatly help in terms of scarieness of the ghosts.
But half way through the movie somehow it seems that movie starts to run out of the steam and the whole film starts to slow down greatly. The scares just doesn't seem that scary any more from the first half of the movie and I could sense restlessness amongst the audience. It seems that the director has run out of ideas on how to scare us and the film just slowly marches toward the end.
Now I am not a big fan of the FX in horror movies, but I believe the producer of this movie sticks too much to the old school of horror films. I think that a little special effects would greatly help in terms of scarieness of the ghosts.