The J-horror craze of the late 1990s changed the face of the genre as profoundly as contemporaries like The Blair Witch Project. It was led by a pair of films centered around vengeful ghosts: 1998’s Ringu and 2002’s Ju-On: The Grudge. Both films introduced Japanese horror to a larger international audience, opening the doors for horror movies from other Asian countries, notably South Korea. Both films resulted in popular American adaptations — 2002’s The Ring and 2004’s The Grudge — that helped the genre escape the rut of slasher films that had dominated it for decades. Both spanned lengthy franchises with sequels and spin-offs of varying quality in both Japan and the US.Both franchises successfully updated two of the horror genre’s oldest clichés — ghosts and haunted houses — for the 21st century. With all of that in their corner, the two films’ respective spirits have racked up quite an impressive kill count, including implied murders that are never seen and make a raw body count impossible. That beggars the question of which monster — Ringu’s Sadako Yamamura or Ju-On’s Kayako Saeki — is the deadliest. Their comparative similarities result in very different modus operandi, which lends some heft to the debate. The two characters have even faced each other onscreen in the gimmicky 2016 movie Sadako vs. Kayako, where they ultimately combine into a single entity, Sadakaya. The issue goes beyond simple body count.In the Japanese Ringu franchise, Sadako Yamamura is the daughter of a woman with psychic abilities. Her father feared the girl’s power and trapped her in a well where she lingered for some time before perishing. Her angry spirit is then projected onto a video tape, and will murder anyone who watches it unless they show it to another person within seven days. The original Ringu depicts an investigative journalist named Reiko Asakawa who uncovers the story after her niece Tomoko is killed by the “cursed” video tape. By forcing potential victims to pass the video on in order to save themselves, Sadako ensures that her story will continue to circulate.Halloween Ends vs Thorn Curse: Which Had the Silliest Origin for Michael Myers’ Murders?
The J-horror craze of the late 1990s changed the face of the genre as profoundly as contemporaries like The Blair Witch Project. It was led by a pair of films centered around vengeful ghosts: 1998’s Ringu and 2002’s Ju-On: The Grudge. Both films introduced Japanese horror to a larger international audience, opening the doors for horror movies from other Asian countries, notably South Korea. Both films resulted in popular American adaptations — 2002’s The Ring and 2004’s The Grudge — that helped the genre escape the rut of slasher films that had dominated it for decades. Both spanned lengthy franchises with sequels and spin-offs of varying quality in both Japan and the US.
Both franchises successfully updated two of the horror genre’s oldest clichés — ghosts and haunted houses — for the 21st century. With all of that in their corner, the two films’ respective spirits have racked up quite an impressive kill count, including implied murders that are never seen and make a raw body count impossible. That beggars the question of which monster — Ringu’s Sadako Yamamura or Ju-On’s Kayako Saeki — is the deadliest. Their comparative similarities result in very different modus operandi, which lends some heft to the debate. The two characters have even faced each other onscreen in the gimmicky 2016 movie Sadako vs. Kayako, where they ultimately combine into a single entity, Sadakaya. The issue goes beyond simple body count.
In the Japanese Ringu franchise, Sadako Yamamura is the daughter of a woman with psychic abilities. Her father feared the girl’s power and trapped her in a well where she lingered for some time before perishing. Her angry spirit is then projected onto a video tape, and will murder anyone who watches it unless they show it to another person within seven days. The original Ringu depicts an investigative journalist named Reiko Asakawa who uncovers the story after her niece Tomoko is killed by the “cursed” video tape. By forcing potential victims to pass the video on in order to save themselves, Sadako ensures that her story will continue to circulate.
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