Japanese Horror and It's Impact on American Filmography. - Comments

This was a very well written article.
I usually refuse to watch Americanized versions of horror movies. They always manage to screw up the movies. The only movie that i liked from Japanese to American, was Shutter. I know that your article focused only on J-Horror, however, it is not just Japanese movies. It pretty much all foreign films, and personally, it drive me crazy. I feel like American film writers have no motivation to write their own stories anymore. Every movie nowadays it either a remake, a movie based off a book, or ripped off of a foreign film.

I feel like, watching an American verison of a Horror film only scares me while I'm watching it, even though they rarely achieve that. They're usually all blood and gore, but nothing actually scary. When I'm watching J-Horror, I am genuienely freaked out for a while after, and also impressed by the depth of pscyhcological mind fuck that goes into them.

Thanks to this article, I will be hopping on Netflix momentarily :)

You wrote this very well. (: I like how you weren't "American's ruined the original's" and had facts to go along with your opinions, which I completly agree with (:

Awesome article. Well written ^^ You balanced facts and opinions very nicely :)

One of the best articles on here I've read to be honest!
I love the re-makes of Japanese horror films, but I've never actually watched a Japanese version of one because everybody says they're REALLY scary and.. well I'm a bit of a wimp :)

I'd like to add "Chakushin an" a.k.a. "One Missed Call". My first J-horror flick and the one that truly scared the crap outta me.

didn't richard chase blame his cannibalism on japanese horror and anime or something

good but the end of ur 6th paragraph and the 7 are pretty much the same thing might want to read carefully next time interesting article though

The original Friday the 13th was a British comedy from 1933 with Jessie Matthews in it...

Anyway, nice article! I love psychological horrors. Gore just makes me criticise, because my dad's a doctor and a lot of it is entirely unrealistic...

How come you switch from talking about American remakes to English Remakes at the bottom? The English film industry doesn't tend to remake films at all, particularly not horror, so I don't know if that was a mistake?

Cool article :D
I haven't seen a horror movie which could scare me... until I saw Japanese ones. They were kind of scary at times. Other horrors just make me laugh and they're too predictable :/

Good article. The Grudge scared the hell out of me when i first saw it. I prefer the orginals over the remake. I feel as though Hollywood doesn't make much of an effort to scare audiences whenever they do a j-horror remake. And like the adminstration said, there some pretty good korean horror films out there. I recommend you watch a few :3

Good article.
I know alot of horror movies are actually remakes of old Korean ones.
It's funny that movie makers just remake the old ones rather than think of new plot lines.

What an awesome topic to write an article about! It was very entertaining, and I learned things I didnt know before. You ordered your article well and you used the perfect tone/voice to deliver that much information without sounding boring =]

I absolutely love japanese horror flicks. I prefer most of the originals over the american versions. Such as the movie shutter. I totally love the original better than the remake. Totally plot lines though. This is a really good article. kudos