Japanese horrors scare the most

It is not accidental that most culturologists declare that the coming century is the century of Asia. The whole world was struck like an avalanche of Japanese cinema, literature, anime. And many films of exotic, original, and this phenomenon in an instant became the subject of heated discussions and deep research. Even Japanese horrors are a contemplative cinema, with it the accent is made exclusively on the visual series, and all the true depths of meaning, moral subtext are hidden in images. The essence of such films is not concentrated in the semantic nucleus, but in some abstract touches to the human subconscious, to the soul. Intricate or at times deliberately simple shots, which Japanese horrors show us, cause a storm of emotions, a lot of feelings and associations. At the same time, the simplicity and simplicity of the stories are illusory, because Japanese j-horrors films instead of literary sources or previously filmed tapes rely solely on national original mythology. However, the most important thing in these films is the aftertaste, because in most cases, only after the end, you can definitely determine whether the film is liked or not. Hand in hand with a unique emphasis on the visual series are sound effects, and most often - silence. At the same time, unlike the American or European cinema, there are very few cultural references in Japanese, but there is enough all-absorbing aesthetics, frightening slowness of everything that is happening. Japanese horrors are doomed to success. And the reason is not even in originality, specificity of subjects, not in exotic, they work through the inner side of the picture, as if they show the viewer events from the opposite side, often in reverse chronology. Perhaps, it is this that is kept in terrible strain until the very end, do not allow the viewer to relax.

Recognition received thanks to remakes

Many Japanese horrors have received world recognition thanks to their American remakes. The most famous of them are "Curse" and "Call". The image of inexorable evil in both films is featured in the face of a young child - a dead girl in the "Bell" and the same little boy in "The Curse", who cruelly avenge their guilty death guilty and guilty without guilt. These pictures clearly demonstrate the attitude of the Japanese to the spirits of the deceased, which is one of the most important and fundamental elements of the national religion - Shinto. With all due respect and even reverence in the films of this genre, the Japanese try to calm or, more simply, destroy the evil in the person of these spirits. It can be assumed that the directors obsessively try to demonstrate a certain fear of the spirits of the dead. And people are afraid of at least something to anger them and thereby bring upon themselves their fierce rage. Japanese "Call" (1998) director Hideo Nakata was reshooted in South Korea - the movie "Call: the virus", and after and in the US - the very "Bell". American "Curse" (2004) is a pure remake of the Japanese horror film "Ju-on: Evil", shortly after the success of the first picture, "Curse-2", "Curse-3". At the moment, these two films are the highest-grossing Asian ribbons of the genre in question, which make it possible to say that these are the best Japanese horrors. However, that's not all.

Frightening exotics

To the category of "terrible Japanese horrors" include: "The Suicide Club" (2001), "Pulse" (2001), the bloody "Kinoprof" (1999), the cult "Royal Battle" (2000), mystical "Dark Waters" (2001) , Non-standard "Prediction" (2004). It would be superfluous to recall the adaptation of the Japanese manga-comics "Ichi-killer" (2001). And finally, another intriguing trash from the unique world of Japanese horror films - "The Tokyo Police of Blood" (2008).