GHOSTS Ep 13: Ringu (1998) & Ju-On (2002)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by Digital Spy film editor Rosie Fletcher to discuss all things J-Horror! They review Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge in spoilerific detail, and also recommend other J & K Horror favourites including Pulse, Dark Water, One Missed Call, The Eye and A Tale of Two Sisters.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The 1998 Japan a man sits alone in his apartment when suddenly his television flickers on. |
| 0:27.0 | The TV shows a grainy image of a small girl wearing a white gown with long black hair. She crawls out of a |
| 0:36.0 | well in the distance and slowly moves towards the screen. |
| 0:42.0 | The man watches in morbid curiosity, believing he's safe as the little girl is confined behind the glass of the television, right? |
| 0:53.0 | But at this moment the little girl begins slowly, inexplicably crawling out of his |
| 1:00.4 | television onto his living room floor and continues to pursue him. Towards the end of the 1990s, fear, paranoia and anxiety began to spread around the world. |
| 1:20.0 | With the rise of the internet and the countdown towards what became known as the Millennium |
| 1:24.0 | Bug, humanity feared that their own technology could bring about their downfall. |
| 1:29.5 | This resulted in a new boom of supernatural ghost movies, ones that particularly dealt with technology and its deadly consequences. |
| 1:37.0 | The first of these hugely successful movies was Ring, a movie that not only influenced this new wave of popular ghost stories, |
| 1:45.0 | but also sparked a new movement of mainstream Japanese horror movies |
| 1:50.0 | that terrified audiences around the world. |
| 1:52.0 | This became known as J Horror. |
| 1:55.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the ghost story and we review |
| 2:04.9 | Takashi Shimizu's Dewon and Hidi Onakata's Ring. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're joining us for the first time then welcome. In this |
| 2:25.6 | podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular |
| 2:30.1 | sub-jomres across a number of weeks. We are currently in the midst of |
| 2:33.5 | exploring the evolution of the ghost story and this is part 13 unlucky for some in |
| 2:38.9 | which we are heading over to Japan to explore as the intro suggested the incredible world of J horror |
| 2:45.1 | very very exciting now we've got loads of movies to cover we're going to be |
| 2:48.0 | covering some movies in spoiler free detail but we are going to be talking |
| 2:51.5 | about two movies in particular in absolutely spoilerific |
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