Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Another entry into the Japanese horror genre. The film focuses on a house where something truly awful has happened in the past. As different people enter the house the tormented spirits of the previous occupants wreak havoc. The films plot is simple and classic, it differs by offering a string of episodic adventures for each different person who enters. This approach makes sure that the scares keep on coming, fast and furious, but means it lacks a real narrative depth. It also means we are unable to really feel for any of the characters. 'Ju-on' is basically a straight forward horror. We are thrust into a mystery, as to what the hell is going on, and we get a continuous string of scares until the final revelatory scene. The scares are very effective, using a stripped down budget, with simple make-up proving very scary in deed. Freaky children, crawling women with long hair and cracking bones. This is all stuff we have seen before, but it is presented in such an effective fashion it is like a remastered edition of your favourite horrors. Sound plays a very important part of the film, with cats screaming, fingers scraping and throats gurgling. The audiences imagination participates in creating a few extra scares where needed. Some may find that the film is like a never ending story, and becomes repetitive. It may be so, but it is easy to digest in its bite size segments.

Nathaniel Kidd I was disappointed by the original but this sequel was much, much better. Everything about it has been improved - the plot, the character development, the direction, the mood, the fear factor. The over all feeling of this film is very very creepy. It's exactly how a ghost story should be. It doesn't give you the kind of scares that make you jump out of your skin like some movies do but what it does give you is a very uneasy and haunting feeling. The arrangement and fragmentation of script was excellent. It's broken up into separate stories or chapters like the first one but they've played with the time line in this one in a very wonderful way which contributes to the ghostly feeling of the film as a whole. The story with the banging on the wall was a particular favourite of mine, and, I think, pretty genius.I am so glad I watched this! It has now become one of my favourite Japanese horror films.

kiss_my_swingers I bought this on DVD at Christmas without having seen it previously. I did the same with "The Grudge" and it was a great experience; my friend and I (23 and 21 at the time) were so scared we had to watch "Finding Nemo" to calm us down. I refused to watch "The Grudge 2" on my own, so waited for the same friend to watch it. Now, two friends (25 and 23 now) have never been less scared in their lives. I've been more scared by toy commercials than this film. It just seemed far too contrived and too similar to the first film. Bits of it were good, but instead of being scared we just said "That was good". This film is a big let down, let's just hope the 3rd one gets the series back on it's feet.

ahmedjerry2000 sorry it's really movie i couldn't understand at all first of all the name's were very strange to me then the plot was very confused the relationships between the characters of the movie another mystery what's happened to the mother is she died ? a lot of questions which you will never get an answer to them it's really so bad but still the main idea of the movie is not so bad this haunted house and whoever connect with it is disappeared by somehow i think i like it maybe the language has it's effect my mother tongue is Arabic and as you know we all used to English but Japanaise is very unfamiliar . It could be .the end of it was so mysterious don't get the meaning of this young girl with the mother and why she killed her