Best Japanese horror film anyone?
 

What are some good Japanese horror films?

I've seen Ringu (1 & 2) and Koma. i concider all three to be worth while horror films and honestly, Ringu scared me more than the American adaptaion of The Ring, because it was more sycological than gore. What are other good ones, and if you could, give a quick description of the film? Domo arigato! :vsign:

Tales from the Dead is the most horrible for me.

I actually thought "One Missed Call" was rather good. It's very tense all the way through, and there's a scene towards the end that has everyone jumping in their seats.

I think that's the thing with Japanese horror, it's so psychological that it really gets in your head, and - like with the old Hitchcock kind of movies - they rely more on actual scares that gore and bloodshed. It's more about what you don't see than what you do. Don't get me wrong, I do love gore, but it's certainly not scary, just 'awesome special effects. Pass the popcorn?' So yeah, deffinately psychological, way better in horror films. There are some good American horror films of late though that rely on scares rather than gore, or use both, and they work quite well too :)

I think Japan makes some pretty cool horror, one of my favorites being Pulse. Korea and Thailand put out some pretty dope stuff as well. Not that movies are really scary IMO, but sometimes I wish Japanese and other Asian horror films had larger budgets. Not necessarily for special effects, but to save them from looking like they've been shot with handy-cams.

Totally. As a cinema student, I've gone through pretty much every mechanism film makers use to make the audience feel tense and expectant. Hitckcock knew how to do that like no one else.

Horror is about suspense and getting the audience to feel like they wanna watch something they actually don't. I think Haneke's Funny Games is about the best example there is. This movie is the closest I've ever felt to "horror" when watching a movie. I know it ain't Japanese but oh well, I really can't imagine the story it tells taking place anywhere other than Germany.

Gore Gore Gore!

I prefer Korean horrors cause they keep the focus on psychological torture and paranoia. Yet, I must admit that I don't flee if a bad, Thai horror is put on. Terrible editing, terrible language (no offense), terrible acting, terrible effects - GREAT entertainment ^^v

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I saw a couple of Korean horrors (something about of terror events in a high school) and I have to say that it was a rather amateur work by comparison to japanese masterpieces.

Really? I think there are some that are quite good, even when compared to Japanese horror, such as "A Tale of Two Sisters" - it wasn't terrifying or gorey, but it was a good psychological horror and didn't seem amateurish at all. "The Ghost" was also very chilling and creepy, it wasn't at all amateur and very psychological also, and - like the other film - it also seemed to theme around paranoia and the sense of self. So yeah, I agree with NanteNa on this one :mtongue:

I feel that if a film has a psychological touch to it, then it's gonna be scary. Nothing is scarier than the decline or torture of the human mind. Period! And Asian movies always do this, which makes me happy. :D

I liked Audition....

it's hard to find takeshi miikes movies. only one i was able to get my hands on was Visitor Q...it was just retarded :cool: but i also was laughing half of the time. well...this image sums it up:

I must admit too that One missed called is a masterpiece, its soo goood. Fully loaded of awesome chills.
I must recomend and american film named Paranormal activity, its just as good as one missed called.

It's got to be psychological for me. I can watch hours of gore without being affected but if something gets in my head, then I'm truly spooked. I've only really seen Ringu 1 & 2 (classic) but I'm gonna check out some of the titles mentioned. I actually thought Dark Water was pretty good too, although nowhere near as scarey as Ringu. More sad, due to the Moms sacrifice at the end.

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wishing stairs

Yes!!! That scared the hell out of me!I couldn't really sleep after watching that. It was a good movie. :D

Just watched Onmyogi. It's not really a "horror" film, but it had moment that were definitely creepy and unsettling. Especially watching it in the early hours before dawn in a house creaking from high winds.:eek: