same here.

Other than giallo - i'm not a fan of 80's slashers.
i didnt mind the 1st Scream because it had fun with slasher films - but unfortunately it spawned a new wave of them (that didnt last thank god)

unorigional pap.

The very fact that all of you folks forgot about this trashy flick is ample bashing!:D

(Of course, it was the last moments of watching Tara Reid look as gorgeous as she did here)



Moving on, some hardcore fans hail this movie as ground-breaking, innovative, original and a trendsetter. Yet, there is a select group which thinks that this movie caused more ruin to the genre than add any positivism.

Will the haters take their stance and explain why they think


Ringu


took away a chunk of the genre with it, rather than add anything productive to it?


Here comes the bashing!!:cool:

ringu i watched a long time ago, so i don't remember much about it.
what i do remember is feeling that it was very silly, and not scary in the least.

i rolled my eyes a lot during ringu.

Well, it has been claimed to have revolutionised Asian horror and western audiences in many ways.

Anyone else dares to chuck a rotten egg?

*Chucks rotten egg*
Ringu is a total suck fest. I liked the remake The Ring a lot more. I usually like the original more than the remake, but this is not the case here.

no - i give the movie a lot of credit... it really was the first exposure for a lot of people (or at least the american remake was)

but eventually people found out there was a japanese version and some checked it out out of curiosity and had a whole new world of horror opened up to them.

sure - there's a lot of sameness in asian horror - but it's usually pretty well made.

a whole hell of a lot better than those 2000+ inane - made for kids 80's slasher movies that were indistingushable from each other

ive never seen Ringu, but The Ring sucked...

Ringu is an important movie in its way. But lots of important movies are also dull, and or sucky. La Strada for example. Important? Yes. But it's maudlin, insensitive and boring, with a message that doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on. Ringu is something of a lesson in genre history (recent though it might be) and is decent medicine for the horror fan that doesn't need the proverbial spoon full of sugar. And by sugar, I mean entertainment.

i was very entertained by Ringu ..

J-horror has always felt like italian horror to me whereby you are dealing with style over substance (the age old HDC debate)

If done well, i am every bit entertained as i am by something more straightforward.

i enjoy the visuals, the building tension (by what we can see that the victim can't) and i can appreciate that the long haired ghost lady figures prominantly in asian culture.

They are innovative (the 1st time you see them) and usually nicely shot.
(maybe because i cant understand japanese) - the perfomances seem fine.

above all else - the image of that girl crawling towards the viewer/victim with that jerky slow camera motion - will be forever burned into the minds of horror fans - and many non horror fans - alike.

that alone puts itself heads and shoulders above the forgetful pap we're exposed to constantly as fans of the genre.

That was a cool effect until it became overused in Japanese and American films alike (The Grudge, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Fair Haired Child.....). It's still a creepy shot, but it gets old after a while.

I watched Ringu because everyone I knew was talking about how good 'The Ring' was, and I wanted to be the purist snob that I am. I figured that if people were talking about 'The Ring' then 'Ringu' must be that much better. I was mistaken. I suppose it tried for the cinematography over story or anything, but I walked away thinking that I had wasted a small portion of my life.

I'm almost bored with J-Horror these days. Maybe it's the subtitles making my eyes get tired, or maybe it's that I keep seeing the same thing over and over again, but I almost never pick something up anymore just because it's Japanese (c'mon, we all had that stage where ninja weapons, anime, and Japanese culture was hip to follow)

i agree ... but how old was a indestructable guy in a mask walking slowly through the forest with a machette ?

it was done about 500 times in the 80's and no one complained.


the sameness of the j horror films bugged me after a while too - but putting it in perspective - i'll take it over the other standard horror crap thats been done over and over again.

I haven't seen Ringu....but so far I've liked ALL the originals over the hollywood remakes.

i was impressed with The grudge.

pound for pound every bit as good as the origional as far as i was concerned..

I was too, I guess the director got to re-visit his work at improve bits and pieces.
Haven't checked out the sequel yet... didn't enjoy the original sequel at all.

Well...Ringu stands with a half love-half hate relationship with HDC-ers.

It's more delectable to dissect a movie like Ringu, rather than something like Warlock which everyone hates...which reminds me...a certain movie came out awhile back which was as popular as the rest but didn't go too well with horror fans or the film-maker's fans either.

But can the hardcore John Carpenter fans stand up and explain...why exactly didn't they like the remake of


Village of the Damned?


Onwards...into the bashing!!

dull and forgettable. literally. i forgot this movie existed

Sorry to go offtopic for a moment, but I liked Warlock. :)

I dug Warlock too... I used to like the sequel more back in the day but I watched it recently and it dated pretty badly. Gonna check out the third one next week if I end up winning an online auction.

Shit casting let Village Of The Damned down (Superman + Crocodile Dundee's Girlfriend + The fat chick from Cheers that ate all the babies in Look Who's Talking = Painfull).
But yeh I own it and it has its moments for me because I'm a huge Carpenter fan.

So did I..

Me too.

It was one of those 80's movies that just worked in that time period. I think it if came out now it would seem silly.

A: I liked Warlock too...

B: Village of the Damned was a forgettable film filled with themes and visuals that were accomplished with greater impact and more fleshed out in other movies. I think I fell asleep the first couple times through.

Village of the Damned bored the complete shit out of me. I just cant think of one single redeeming thing about it.

I watched it when I was really young and it scared me. Now there are only like 3 parts I find creepy.