A lot of anime from that era captured the encroaching millennium angst really well, like Texhnolyze and Boogiepop. They just didn't have the internet/technology element so they're not considered as prescient
The horror shit is great, but the sheer desolation and finality of its apocalypse is what sticks with me the most. Some really primal miseryfuel right there.
It really is one of the scariest movies ever made. Not just for the creepy visuals and tone, but also, and moreso, because of the utter desolation and loneliness that the film leaves as an impression. It may be the most pessimistic film ever about what comes after death
I lost my virginity to a fat goth girl during middle school when we went to this and the theatre was totally empty. I was 13 she was 16. She went right for the wiener and slurped me like a soda.
This movie makes me really sad and not just because of what happens in it, but also because it's about the early 2000s internet and I'm reminded that's never coming back
I don't need to have seen the Yank remake to know it doesn't come anywhere even close to the original. Watch it mate, top-tier early internet-based horror that you'll think about for days.
I saw it theater a lifetime ago now and have somehow never seen the Japanese one. I recently watched Dark Water that was a great. Just love the look and feel of these early ought j-horror films. They have a certain texture to them.
The original is a ponderous and philosophical film about the nature of death, the isolation of being alive in the digital age despite the promise of interconnectivity solving our loneliness, and the terror of what likely awaits us if our consciousness carries forth in the next realm. As well as what the dead may want from the living should they be able to reach back across the veil.
The US one is a dirt cheap monster movie full of bad actors and even worse camera work.
Nice trips. Yes, I would say it has affected me most of any J or K Pop horror. Hard movie to say call a favorite. If you haven't seen any other Kurosawa films, Cure, Doppelganger, and Seance are also creepy and good to varying degrees in that order. Pulse is his masterpiece though Cure is a close second. Enjoy feeling empty after you watch them!
I liked Tokyo Fist a lot but it's definitely not the stereotypical long black hair ghost girl j-horror, if you'd consider it horror at all. Also Audition and Marebito
I never really get 'scared' during movies, but there are a couple scenes in this one that had me unironically looking away from the screen.
I hate ghosts bros....
It's perfect up until the end when it abandons the constant ambient creepiness and turns into total schlock complete with a bad CGI C130 crashing overhead. I feel like with a little bit of cutting of some of the most overt scenes you'd be left with a truly perfect movie
Apparently there are some fan edits that try to do it but I have yet to watch them
What’s that Japanese movie with that unnamed guy that’s going around murdering random people? I think he also doesn’t speak. I started watching it years ago but only got about halfway through and want to finish it. People always talk about it on here when discussing Japanese horror.
Check out these, anon. They're not all strictly horror, but they all have a dreadful mood hanging over them
>Inland Empire >Birth >A Tale of Two Sisters >Riget (The Kingdom) >The Rapture >Safe >The Fog >The Last Wave >Picnic at Hanging Rock >The Tenant >Rosemary's Baby >Deep End >Hour of the Wolf >Seconds >Woman in the Dunes >Carnival of Souls >Maya Deren's short films on YouTube
It's not a jump scare kind of film, but it is indeed a bit slow and long. Definitely takes its time but that's what makes it effective. The horror slowly sets in.
I don't mind slow films or jump scares but I cant stand when they play out the tension too long and too often. It becomes boring. I know the jumpscare is coming and the film keeps faking you. I'm more engaged in the story and just want that to continue.
there's only one jump scare in the whole movie, the scene lasts maybe 4 or 5 minutes. pulse is kind of like the gold standard of what the a24 meme tries to do with horror
cure is a an even better movie though
and yet its comfy
What is this about bros? I'm usually no good with horror movies but I'm intrigued
>inb4 google it
I don't wanna spoil myself
can't tell you without spoiling it , mate. The first half hour is better than most horror films ever made tbh
Thanks bros. I'll give it a shot
How about an 8 ft tall woman who kills you by snu snu? Also from Japan
>How about an 8 ft tall woman who kills you by snu snu? Also from Japan
NaME OF THE MOVIE NOW!
Ghosts inside the computer
Alienation and social disconnect as brought about by the emerging wave of internet communities in the 2000s.
Same thing as Serial Experiments Lain.
For sure, kindred spirits.
A lot of anime from that era captured the encroaching millennium angst really well, like Texhnolyze and Boogiepop. They just didn't have the internet/technology element so they're not considered as prescient
and sad
The horror shit is great, but the sheer desolation and finality of its apocalypse is what sticks with me the most. Some really primal miseryfuel right there.
It really is one of the scariest movies ever made. Not just for the creepy visuals and tone, but also, and moreso, because of the utter desolation and loneliness that the film leaves as an impression. It may be the most pessimistic film ever about what comes after death
I lost my virginity to a fat goth girl during middle school when we went to this and the theatre was totally empty. I was 13 she was 16. She went right for the wiener and slurped me like a soda.
Cure was better tbh
I just want to say that Charisma is very underrated
i don't get how people get creeped out by movies. don't you realize it's just a movie?
thanks anon im going to watch this on prime later
This movie makes me really sad and not just because of what happens in it, but also because it's about the early 2000s internet and I'm reminded that's never coming back
How much better is the original than the blue filter American one?
I don't need to have seen the Yank remake to know it doesn't come anywhere even close to the original. Watch it mate, top-tier early internet-based horror that you'll think about for days.
I saw it theater a lifetime ago now and have somehow never seen the Japanese one. I recently watched Dark Water that was a great. Just love the look and feel of these early ought j-horror films. They have a certain texture to them.
I'll try and watch it when it gets dark tonight.
The original is a ponderous and philosophical film about the nature of death, the isolation of being alive in the digital age despite the promise of interconnectivity solving our loneliness, and the terror of what likely awaits us if our consciousness carries forth in the next realm. As well as what the dead may want from the living should they be able to reach back across the veil.
The US one is a dirt cheap monster movie full of bad actors and even worse camera work.
I'm stoked anon. Would you say it's the best/your favorite of the early '00's J-horror?
not that abob but that or noroi. Noroi is kino
abob kek i meant anon
God bless fellas. It's gonna be rainy here this week and I've got my work cut out for me now.
Nice trips. Yes, I would say it has affected me most of any J or K Pop horror. Hard movie to say call a favorite. If you haven't seen any other Kurosawa films, Cure, Doppelganger, and Seance are also creepy and good to varying degrees in that order. Pulse is his masterpiece though Cure is a close second. Enjoy feeling empty after you watch them!
Ringu and Juon
I liked Tokyo Fist a lot but it's definitely not the stereotypical long black hair ghost girl j-horror, if you'd consider it horror at all. Also Audition and Marebito
I never really get 'scared' during movies, but there are a couple scenes in this one that had me unironically looking away from the screen.
I hate ghosts bros....
It's perfect up until the end when it abandons the constant ambient creepiness and turns into total schlock complete with a bad CGI C130 crashing overhead. I feel like with a little bit of cutting of some of the most overt scenes you'd be left with a truly perfect movie
Apparently there are some fan edits that try to do it but I have yet to watch them
kino
I always think of this fricking scene when I get home from work at 1AM and I'm opening my apartment door
one of the best scenes in horror.
What’s that Japanese movie with that unnamed guy that’s going around murdering random people? I think he also doesn’t speak. I started watching it years ago but only got about halfway through and want to finish it. People always talk about it on here when discussing Japanese horror.
Found it, it’s called “Cure”.
noroi is good too
AAAAAAGGGGHHHH THERE'S A 4FT TALL JAPANESE WOMEN SLOWLY DOING A FUNNY WALK AT ME HELP ME Black personMAN
It's pretty good... until the end. Then it becomes too wild. I think Cure manages to remain consistent in tone throughout much better.
>Kiyoshi Kurosawa
>no relation to Akira Kurosawa but produces kino nonetheless
What are the odds
There's also Teruo Ishii and Sogo/Gakuryu Ishii, completely unrelated despite sharing a smidge of thematic and stylistic sensibilities.
>tfw they build a 5g tower near me
>tfw can't afford a surgery to extract the psychic worms from my brain
ngmi
Why don't more horror movies have such a bleak, melancholy feeling? Only others I can think of are Ringu and Lake Mungo.
A lot of older movies like from the 70s are like that
Try Fulci's The Beyond
He got his start doing pinku films and straight to TV shit IIRC
Check out these, anon. They're not all strictly horror, but they all have a dreadful mood hanging over them
>Inland Empire
>Birth
>A Tale of Two Sisters
>Riget (The Kingdom)
>The Rapture
>Safe
>The Fog
>The Last Wave
>Picnic at Hanging Rock
>The Tenant
>Rosemary's Baby
>Deep End
>Hour of the Wolf
>Seconds
>Woman in the Dunes
>Carnival of Souls
>Maya Deren's short films on YouTube
Pretty good list from what I've seen, I would add Messiah of Evil, Don't Look Now and like half of all Italian horror
watch fear x. more of a drama than a horror movie, but you'd like it
This is interesting. The first film Kiyoshi Kurosawa ever directed was called “Kandagawa Pervert Wars”.
I got like an hour in last night and quit, was bored. Does it get better? I liked noroi
>creepy.
now watch Kurīpī: Itsuwari no Rinjin
Is this movie actually good or is it a snooze like grudge where jumpscare scenes last 15 minutes and do nothing to progress the film
It's not a jump scare kind of film, but it is indeed a bit slow and long. Definitely takes its time but that's what makes it effective. The horror slowly sets in.
I don't mind slow films or jump scares but I cant stand when they play out the tension too long and too often. It becomes boring. I know the jumpscare is coming and the film keeps faking you. I'm more engaged in the story and just want that to continue.
Story and mood are the strong points of the film. And the visuals too
there's only one jump scare in the whole movie, the scene lasts maybe 4 or 5 minutes. pulse is kind of like the gold standard of what the a24 meme tries to do with horror
cure is a an even better movie though
it's comfy