Review and explain movie Ju-On: Origins - Scary from puzzlement?

Duration: 30 minutes / episode; 6 episodes / season 1

Director: Netflix

Actors: Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Yuina Kuroshima

Country: Korea

Genre: Horror, mystery, fantasy

Premiere: July 3 , 2020

Last week, Netflix released a movie titled Ju-On: Origins on its online film platform that made fans of the Ju-On and The Grudge series really fidgety. This horror series has been remade many parts on the big screen, but this is the first time viewers will hear about the origin of those horrible curses on the small screen. Let's join WebTech360 and explain the movie Ju-On: Origins to see if there is anything attractive and scary.

I. REVIEW FILMS

Plot: The story of Ju-On: Origins begins in 1988 when female star Haruka was on television to talk about unusual events that happened in her house recently. Through the support of Yasuo - An expert in psychic phenomena, Haruka gradually discovered that the cause of the above scary phenomena originated from a house located on the outskirts of Tokyo with many generations of owners and Horror cases have been going on here for many years, but few people notice and remember. What horror awaits Haruka and Yasuo in this house? Watch the movie to get the answer.

The first evaluation of WebTech360 with Ju-On: Origins is that the movie is both easy and difficult to watch. It's easy because season 1 of the series only has 6 episodes, each episode on average 30 minutes long, so it seems like you only need to spend about 3 hours to be able to plow all this series. In addition, the horror and scary details in the movie are not much with low intensity, so anyone who is a bit weak can still enjoy the full scene.

However, Ju-On: Origins is also quite difficult to watch because the film contains a lot of violence, gore, rape and metamorphosis which are relatively heavy, can even shock many of you are not used to the style. Japanese filmmaking . At the same time, the film also intentionally arranged the main content in a nonlinear order (not in chronological order), put a loop element in the film and inserted many confusing details to create a mystery for the author. This horror product, from which invisible generally makes the viewer reel in the mess and surely many of you who finished watching the movie will be bewildered to know what happened.

In terms of entertainment, Ju-On: Origins has not met the expectations of the audience because the story is quite slow and messy, so it is easy to put the audience to sleep. Especially for those who are fans of this film franchise, it may be a bit disappointing because of the lack of many features that bring Ju-On 's charm . However, for those who have not watched many Ju-On episodes like me, WebTech360 feels that season 1 of this series has been quite successful in explaining the root cause of the curse in the famous haunted house above.

In addition, looking deeply into the plot of the movie, you can see that Ju-On wants to criticize the moral decadence in Japan during the past 50 years with so many gruesome cases happening. Rape, bullying, adultery, actors, treachery, mass murder, corporal punishment, pedophilia, ... are all depicted naked through fictitious cases as well as real cases mentioned. coming in the movie. Perhaps the haunted house in Ju-On is just a metaphor for the moment when people become fallen or reveal the evil nature that is deeply hidden within each person.

Ju-On 's season 1 ends certainly leaves many questions to make viewers think. Hopefully, if Netflix continues to invest in part 2, the questions in part 1 will be answered. In general, the film is not too good, not too haunted but not too bad, at least there is something for the audience to sequence the details outlined in the movie by themselves, thereby feeling the movie better. Compared with the recent theatrical horror movies, the effect that Ju-On gives viewers seems to be superior, so I grade this section 6.5 out of 10 .

Image - sound: The point where WebTech360 is most impressed with Ju-On: Origins is not the plot but the visual part of the movie. The film color of this series is super beautiful, bold vintage, in which the most prominent is the yellow and blue tones, combined with the classic, peaceful, and elegant look of Japan , giving viewers extremely artistic and satisfying. The effects of the movie are normal, not too good, but not fake, so they can guarantee the scare factor. However, the film does not focus on intimidating the audience, so during the 6 episodes there is no jump scared scene.

The sound of the film is not as effective as the horror movies of the same genre. Almost the soundtrack and noise of Ju-On: Origins was not intended to frighten the audience, so this part of the film was not invested and left little mark on the hearts of viewers. WebTech360 feels that the picture and sound of the movie are beautiful, but not good, so I give it 7/10 .

Acting: Ju-On: Origins still retains the typical Japanese acting stylethat is over-expressing an issue as well as acting slightly different from normal behavior. The film has a lot of actors but mainly revolves around the Japanese character Yasuo. The beauty of this character is that it makes viewers not know whether he is a bad guy or a good guy, and are stories in the movie extracted from the book he wrote or not? In return, the actresses in Ju-On: Origins are really beautiful, from supporting roles to leading roles and this is one of the factors that attract viewers to persevere until the end of the film. WebTech360 marks the acting 6.5 out of 10 .

Assessment scale:

IMDB: 6.4 / 10 (1,271 reviews)

Google: 85/100

Rotten Tomatoes: 82/100 (fresh tomato)

In short ,  Ju-On: Origins is a horror experience worth testing on the Netflix platformin the context of a lack of quality movies outside of theaters to watch. The movie is both easy and difficult to watch with many messy and mysterious details and leaves many questions for the audience after watching. Perhaps this is an intentional act from the producer to help the curse live longer in the hearts of the audience as its own characteristic.

II. MOVIE EXPLANATION

In this section, I will tell the content of the movie chronologically and related cases to help you to help you get rid of the story of Ju-On: Origins . Come on, let's get started.

1. The origin of the curse in Ju-On: Origins

If we have watched Ju-On: Origins , surely the first thing we are most concerned about is where the haunted house curse comes from and where does it start? The story of our film originated in 1988 but in fact everything has to go back 36 years - 1952.

Accordingly, at this time a pervert kidnapped a young girl and imprisoned her in the attic of his house. Every day he beat and raped her and made her pregnant. One night while she was sleeping, the pervert suddenly approached the bed, lay on top of her and intended to use a knife to kill the young girl. The two sides struggled back and forth and she accidentally ended the life of the bad man who ruined her life. This detail is re-enacted in episode 6 of the series when Haruka goes to the bedroom to take care of the wife of the new family who has moved in at the haunted house.

With psychological trauma due to violence and sexual abuse, plus accidentally murdering others, the girl falls into depression but she still gives birth to a baby in her womb. However, due to the mental impact and excessive blood loss, she was exhausted. The night she gave birth to the baby, someone snuck into the house and stole the baby - the poor girl's last precious thing. Therefore, when she took her last breath, the girl was still filled with resentment and her soul was attached to the house that could not escape. She has become a supernatural force (a white-shirted ghost that appears throughout episodes) - something that can spread the word of evil or weak people who endure as tragic as herself. experience.

Although the film explains the origin of the Ju-On curse as above, the film does not forget to incorporate many real injustice cases that happened in Japan . For example, the case of 3 male students kidnapping, torturing and raping a 17-year-old girl many times (Junko Furuta). Her body was eventually discovered in a mass containing 208 liters of concrete (episode 2).

There are also cases such as the North Kanto case where a series of 4-5-year-old girls went missing and found bodies soon after showing signs of sexual abuse. (episode 1). Or the gas attack on the subway lines in Tokyo in 1995 left 12 dead and dozens more (episode 4). In the last episode of the movie, we are also reminded of the demon rose case when 14-year-old male student Azuma imitated the Zodiac Killer scene and murdered 10-11 year old students and left the head of the victim right in front of the school.

This is the voice of the crew as they resent the crimes and violence that have been happening all over Japan all the time. The curse may have originated from the immediate death of the girl in 1952 mentioned above, but in this country of Cherry Blossom, there are still many victims who have to leave the world with no one who can understand. . There are still countless curses out there waiting for the fulfillment of bad guys.

Returning to the plot, it should be noted that after the pervert and the girl die, the house is handed over to the local real estate agent. Due to many tragic deaths occurred here, even though it was a facade in the suburbs of Tokyo , spacious in size, the house is still sold at super cheap prices. The owner of the real estate agent is only interested in money, so he never warns the homebuyer about the deaths in that house and perhaps the ghost here forgives him because he is the one who leads more. new victims come to it.

2. The Yasuo Family's disappearance in 1960

It is not known whether there were any cases in the haunted house between 1952 and 1960, but the movie only refers to the mysterious disappearance of the Yasuo family - spiritual research specialist and character. of Ju-On: Origins . Our entire story seen in the 6 episodes is all of Yasuo's so there may be fictitious details to make the story even more mysterious.

Back to the 1960's timeline. Yasuo was 5 years old, living with his father and sister. His mother is not mentioned but it seems she went missing / died suddenly and this came from part of the father's fault. The father and son moved to the haunted house in Tokyo without paying attention to the history of this place simply because the price is too cheap.

During one time exploring the house, the two sisters of Yasuo discovered the passage up to the attic. Out of curiosity, Yasuo's sister followed the call of the girl ghost who was captured in 1952. Perhaps her greatest wish was to see her mother again, so the ghost took her to meet her mother. in eternal place. However, when responding to a request, it means that the other ghost will also haunt another person. In this case, the possessed person is Yasuo's father and this explains the reason why Yasuo's father wanders off the street and is then burned strangely and dissolved into nothingness.

Particularly in the case of Yasuo, many people still wonder why this character is not possessed or scared by the ghost in white. There are many different explanations for this case, but according to WebTech360, Yasuo boy at that time was still a blank sheet of paper, his soul was not a bit cloudy, so the white shirt ghost did not immediately kill. Instead, the ghost gave her son to check if he was taking the child away from her. However, the boy was too horrified to see the baby and quickly dropped it to the floor. At that moment a shadow appeared, banging on the glass door and running to rob the baby away.

The explanation for this shadow may be a metaphor for the person who stole the poor girl's child in 1952, but it could also be another person, but a little more in section 4, WebTech360 will reveal more. Back to Yasuo, thanks to his fear and honesty, Yasuo was spared death, but his memories of this house are faded as if they were erased by some force. Having been exposed to supernatural phenomena from a young age, when he grew up, Yasuo followed the path of spiritual research and wrote about the haunted house as if a ghost in white urged him to write PR articles for it is.

3. Haruka's fiancé case and the Kiyomi case in 1988

1988 is the pivotal year of the story in Ju-On: Origins with 2 gruesome cases occurring this year. First, let's go to Haruka's fiancé. He was an ordinary office worker but was acquainted with the movie star at that time was Haruka. He wanted to buy for his fiancé a house so the couple could live together, but with a small salary, he could only find cheap houses and somehow he went to see right. haunted house above.

Haruka's fiancé's special feature is that he is very sensitive to supernatural beings, so as soon as he entered the house, he felt the smell of miasma and the presence of wandering souls. The white-shirted ghost realizes that this man might endanger him, so he casts a curse on him and follows him home.

Therefore, from that day on, Haruka's fiancé and Haruka himself (who has been in close contact with this guy) both felt the appearance of strange sounds in their own home. Haruka recounted this to a TV show about ghosts and here she met Yasuo. After that program, the strange noises still did not disappear, so her fiancé advised Haruka to live in his apartment temporarily to save his fear.

Haruka's fiancé was increasingly tortured by the curse, he felt tired and began to appear many hallucinations. Soon after, it was found that he died in panic with his mouth wide open as if an object / creature had entered his mouth. The boy's mother was a fellow and she believed that her son's death was definitely related to the devil, so she insisted on asking Haruka to find out the cause. Haruka is now very hurt and scared, so she doesn't know the reason for her fiancé's departure.

A second case also happened in 1988 involving a beautiful schoolgirl Kiyomi. As a new transfer student with a different dress and hairstyle, she is noticed by the other girls in the school. Kiyomi's mother is very indifferent, often interacting with many other men and that is also the reason why her father left. However, she blamed Kiyomi, thinking she was the one who seduced her husband and other men. Therefore, Kiyomi is also more or less psychologically affected when living with a mother like that.

During a return from school, she was invited by two girlfriends from her class to go see cats at a nearby abandoned house. Being a cat lover and also wanting to make friends with new people, Kiyomi agreed to go. On the way, they met Katsuji - the lover of one of the two girls asked Kiyomi to go see cats. 4 people try to break into the abandoned house without knowing that this is a haunted house.

Because of jealousy about Kiyomi's beauty, the other 2 girls plan to "play" this poor girl. Once inside the abandoned house, the two girls pressed and held Kiyomi down to let her boyfriend rape this virgin girl. Finished, Katsuji went to the toilet to make love with his girlfriend, while Kiyomi stumbled upstairs following the cat's cry and the other girl was led by a curse of a ghost in white. in.

Out of shame, Kiyomi hid in the closet and when she looked up at the attic, she saw the ghost in white. Because she was the victim of a rape, the white-shirted ghost did not attempt to kill Kiyomi, instead, this ghost turned her into a different person, living carelessly and willing to fight against the oppressors. bully me.

After that, Kiyomi actively seduced Katsuji, even proactively demanding sex with him in front of his ex-girlfriend. The two escape from the haunted house, while the other girlfriend is searching for her friends in fear. Forever not seeing her friends back, this female student reported to the teacher, but the teacher did not believe her because someone said she saw her at the bar that the girls used to hang out often. This girl came here to look for her friend and since then she also went missing without anyone knowing. This is the price to pay for those who harm their friends out of small jealousy.

Back with Kiyomi, that night she took Katsuji home and caught her mother having sex with her teacher. She couldn't live with a mother like that so she decided to live separately. Interchanging with his mother, Kiyomi told Katsuji to kill her mother or he would release evidence that he raped her. Because of the fear of the bad things being revealed and being subject to the curse, Katsuji beat his new lover's mother with his phone. Kiyomi erased every trace and sprinkled the teacher's sperm in the condom in the trash can on her mother to blame him. As a result, the other teacher was arrested, Kiyomi and Katsuji picked up their backpack and went to find a new life.

4. The curse still hides Kiyomi and Katsuji in 1994

6 years later, Kiyomi and Katsuji lived together and had a child. However, the two often quarreled and Kiyomi was beaten up by Katsuji like a meal. The son often sees this scene so he always runs to the front of the house, covering his ears so that he doesn't have to hear his parents cursing. At such times, the boy saw the ghost in white appear and it was this ghost that made him draw strange images and emit strange cries. Because of that, Katsuji is very frustrated and often abuses his own children.

During a loss of temper, Katsuji hit his son's head with a desk phone, causing him to become comatose and live a vegetative life. He then lived undercover to avoid the police, while Kiyomi was too shocked and miserable, so he worked as a prostitute to make a living, leaving the child being treated by the social protection party.

5. The end of the Kiyomi family and the 1995 Masaki family case

The haunted house's curse has partially gone, but 1995 marked many tragic incidents. First of all, it was the end of the Kiyomi family. Katsuji after a period of hiding because of need, went to sell kidneys. While lying down resting and recovering from the sale of his kidneys, he heard his son's voice telling him to run away. He hurriedly escaped and fortunately escaped the hearted kidney dealers when he wanted to take the remaining half of his kidney.

Katsuji went home to Kiyomi because he heard that his wife had a lot of drugs. Katsuji now recounts that seeing his son's soul helped him escape from the bad people. However, Kiyomi insisted that the boy was not dead and that it was not Katsuji's child, but that of the white-robed ghost in the haunted house gave her. Katsuji didn't believe it and kept asking Kiyomi to give him drugs. All resentment broke out in her body, Kiyomi tricked her husband into a deep bath and dipped in water to kill the person who ruined her youth.

Everything that was meaningful to Kiyomi is now gone. That's why she looks for the haunted house and wishes to return to high school before all these misery happens. At that moment, two old friends who had lured Kiyomi into this abandoned house appeared, held hands and led Kiyomi into nothingness. This case of Kiyomi is similar to that of his sister Yasuo when the ghost here answered their prayers.

 Besides Kiyomi's story, in 1995 there was the story of the Masaki family. Keiichi Masaki is a man who loves his wife very much. One morning at work, he followed a man he had long suspected. The man walked into the cafe and chatted with his wife - Chie - who was in her late weeks of pregnancy.

When he returned home from a tiring day, his wife hid the story of going to see the other man and was cold to him but he still ignored it because he loved his wife so much. Days later, the wife asked stealthily back and forth with the other man and the two decided to clarify the truth to their fiancé. That night, Keiichi Masaki came home from work and felt his wife was treating her more kindly and strangely than usual.

Not happy enough, Chie mentioned directly that the baby in her womb was not Keiichi's, but her ex's (he often had a coffee date with Chie that Keiichi saw and he also lived with his wife. haunted house). She naturally doesn't love Keiichi but believes that Keiichi loves her so much that he will accept this.

Shocked by the above fact, Keiichi finished his wine glass and said his wife also made one, then all 3 people (including the baby in the belly) will die together. At that moment, Keiichi felt that the wine he just drank was the poison glass his wife had prepared. He ran to the toilet trying to vomit all the poison when Chie followed and took a knife to kill him. The two struggled back and forth, and when anger finally surged, Keiichi ended the life of his cheating wife.

He kneeled painfully beside his wife's body. Somehow he looked at his wife's pregnant belly and immediately thought of his intention to cut open his wife's belly to save the baby. The under-term child was brought out to cry anyone. Keiichi quickly brought the child to the haunted house - where the adulterer with his wife lives. His aim is to hand over the child to that man and he will confess. It was pouring rain and the haunted door was locked, and he sat on the porch and found that the infant had passed away.

Keiichi buried the baby in the garden when a woman appeared and brought him inside and offered him instant noodles. Keiichi finished eating and went to the police about killing his wife without knowing that the adulterer man also killed his wife and hanged himself in the haunted house. Maybe the woman who invited Keiichi into the house was the spirit of the adulterer's wife, inviting him to eat a bowl of noodles because of sympathy with his situation and manners.

At the police station, Keiichi is haunted by the ringing of a phone - which was placed in his wife's stomach after he took the baby out. That night, Keiichi saw a crimson child eating his prison food, then slowly crawling into his mouth. According to WebTech360, the next morning, people will discover Keiichi's body in prison with the same death shape as Haruka's fiancé.

At the same time, through the help of her fiancé in the form of a plea, Haruka found out the haunted house's address and reported it to Yasuo. Yasuo realizes this is the house he lived 35 years ago.

6. The Tomoko Family Case in 1997

2 years later, a young couple moved to a haunted house to live. Fortunately for them this time Yasuo came to warn them that those living here would experience bad things. However, Tomoko did not believe this, so he kicked Yasuo away. That night, the Tomoko couple met many strange phenomena and immediately the next morning they invited Yasuo to help.

Yasuo invites Haruka and her fiancé to the haunted house. Yasuo, mother, and Tomoko go to the attic to pray for prayer while Haruka stays downstairs with his wife Tomoko. At this moment, the ghost of the pervert in 1952 appeared, recreating what had happened at that time for Haruka to witness. Tomoko's wife was shocked when she saw the scene and was hospitalized. Tomoko does not believe what happened yet, so he did not go with his wife but wandered out into the street and then disappeared like Yasuo's father disappeared 37 years ago.

There is no mention of Haruka's mother-in-law in the film, but it seems that she also disappeared while in the attic. She made a dream to Haruka to bury everything related to that house in the back garden. That night, Haruka brought the tape she recorded the strange sounds in her house buried in the garden of the haunted house. Suddenly she heard children crying and then she was kidnapped and dragged into the house by a pervert in 1952.

From the summary of the linear circuit plot above, WebTech360 can give the following comments:

The entire story we've seen is taken from Yasuo's book so there are probably fictitious details. This reasoning can help explain confusing and mysterious circumstances in the film.

Ju-On: Origins is full of horror from Eastern demons. Accordingly, although time has passed, the haunted house still has the presence of many people who have appeared in the house. It is the repetition of a scene from the past and it continues to play in exactly the same details as it is now, similar to a movie being played over and over again, day in and day out.

The desk phone is a key object in the entire story of Ju-On: Origins as if it were the carrier between the underworld and the yin realms in the movie.

There is an interesting coincidence among the victims in the haunted house. Haruka ends up being the same girl who was kidnapped and raped in 1952; Yasuo's father and Tomoko's father disappeared equally; Haruka's fiancé has the same dead posture as Keiiche's; Kiyomi and her friends vanished into nothing like Yasuo's sister. This shows a filmmaker's intention of the logistics of each group of people in society and the house as a place for the souls with unjustly in their hearts.

There is also the theory that the shadow appearing in Yasuo's memory is Kiyomi. The haunted house is a time loop so it defies the law of time. Kiyomi went to the haunted house and looked inside. At the same time, 5-year-old Yasuo looked through the glass window and saw only a shadow with white eyes. Kiyomi broke in on her glasses, she took the child and left. The child was raised by Kiyomi and Katsuji thought it was his own, but it was actually the child the white-robed ghost gave to Kiyomi.

There are still many questions that the movie has not explained and viewers still wonder after watching the movie? Please wait for part 2 to get a satisfactory answer.

Above are WebTech360 explanations of Ju-On: Origins . If you do have other explanations or discover many interesting details, do not forget to comment below this article.

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