Hi!

You didn’t expect an uncategorised blogs to be the first of mine but I warned you 😉 Anyway, I am generally a fan of japanese cinema. I love Akira Kurosawa’s movies. I enjoy most of the other classics from Japan. However I don’t mind to watch manga or anime too. I’ve even seen ‘The Ring’, the original japanese version and I think it was quite ok as for a horror movie, it had an athnosphere and was a bit frightening (and I must admit I am not a regular horror movies watcher, since the ”Screem” and it sequels I got bored of it).

So you can imagine me sitting in front of a TV, after starting ‘Dark Water’, made by the same people that made ‘The Ring’ (speaking about japanese versions all the time). And…

Hmm, how to say it gently… It sucked a bit… It wasn’t scary at all. I mean I don’t mind the characters not screeming when they see something frightening, it’s a matter of western culture to shout as much as you can. But when you are a little girl and you are looking at a quite deep bath that is filling with ugly slimy dark water, which spills out and starts to boil or something YOU DON’T STAY AND STEAR AT IT and wait for rotting little arms to grab your head and try to drown you! but get the hell out of there!!! And the whole movie is like that, they just keep acting silly…

Oh, I almost forgot, I wonder -what is so exciting in a scene where a young woman has to hold and snuggle a small zombie girl (a very rotten one)? There must be something if you can find this scene in both ‘The Ring’ and ‘Dark Water’ films. I haven’t seen ‘The Ring 2’ nor ‘The Ring 0’ so I can’t tell if this doesn’t happen more often…

Well, I think I will still be a fan of japanese cinema, but a more careful one from now on…

(I intentionally did not write anything about american versions of the above and other films, this is a different topic for a separate post…)

See you,
Piotrek