The scares are hit or miss, and when they do land, they’re over almost as soon as they start. A couple of decent moments can’t save it from feeling thin and ultimately forgettable.

The scares are hit or miss, and when they do land, they’re over almost as soon as they start. A couple of decent moments can’t save it from feeling thin and ultimately forgettable.

Glad that they made another version of Ju-On and stick to the authentic concept. But why they kept the wierd neck sound? Does all curses has the same voices? I mean where's the logic? It very obvious the reason Kayako has that wierd neck voices is because she died with the broken neck.

Glad that they made another version of Ju-On and stick to the authentic concept. But why they kept the wierd neck sound? Does all curses has the same voices? I mean where's the logic? It very obvious the reason Kayako has that wierd neck voices is because she died with the broken neck.

IS THAT IN MY STOMACH?!? IS THAT IN ME, MAN?????

IS THAT IN MY STOMACH?!? IS THAT IN ME, MAN?????

Having now seen two attempts at making Ju On a bigger budgeted franchise and both times failing, I’ll argue and say for me atleast the appeal of Ju On is when it is low budget, when the horror is created out of restrictions and simplicity. My dream would honestly be seeing a collection of big horror directors try their hand at this franchise but forced into its limitations kinda like Dogma 95, not only to see their craft push to its most bare and essential but also because people who can pull off these films off well require a real grasp, skill, knowledge and clarity of what makes something scary and foreboding, Ju On Black Ghost primarily doesn’t. 


With its melodramatic plot, too fluid camerawork, cheap production design, cartoonish sound design and a unsatisfying structure that cuts away from the big scare way too much that it becomes annoying and teasing then suspenseful or frightening, Black Ghost is clearly ambitious, it is trying to do something new and I like the idea of following the curse manifesting into a new ghost this time but this falls mostly flat. Not only does each of the episodes of the Curse for example worked as their own short films when these does not but in that film if you pay close attention you begin to catch reoccurring motifs that clue us in into the rules and motivations of the ghost, here we basically make it up as we go along and the same goes for the characters who feels less tangible or relatable. 


I don’t really know how to end this the same way the film doesn’t really knew how to end either, Ju On from what I’ve seen so far might be the most disappointing horror franchise to me, with one great low budget start and its weak follow up, a bland upgrade, a watchably tired American remake and now this. I really like the world, characters and mythology these films develops if only it can be used better. Black Ghost may try to expand itself but instead of embracing what this property is in just end up fighting it, making for a frustrated experience that by the end feel more like witnessing somebody fighting with themselves then sheer profound horror, it doesn’t move deeper into hell or up towards the never ending sky, it’s mostly stagnant yet unfocused.

Having now seen two attempts at making Ju On a bigger budgeted franchise and both times failing, I’ll argue and say for me atleast the appeal of Ju On is when it is low budget, when the horror is created out of restrictions and simplicity. My dream would honestly be seeing a collection of big horror directors try their hand at this franchise but forced into its limitations kinda like Dogma 95, not only to see their craft push to its most bare and essential but also because people who can pull off these films off well require a real grasp, skill, knowledge and clarity of what makes something scary and foreboding, Ju On Black Ghost primarily doesn’t. 


With its melodramatic plot, too fluid camerawork, cheap production design, cartoonish sound design and a unsatisfying structure that cuts away from the big scare way too much that it becomes annoying and teasing then suspenseful or frightening, Black Ghost is clearly ambitious, it is trying to do something new and I like the idea of following the curse manifesting into a new ghost this time but this falls mostly flat. Not only does each of the episodes of the Curse for example worked as their own short films when these does not but in that film if you pay close attention you begin to catch reoccurring motifs that clue us in into the rules and motivations of the ghost, here we basically make it up as we go along and the same goes for the characters who feels less tangible or relatable. 


I don’t really know how to end this the same way the film doesn’t really knew how to end either, Ju On from what I’ve seen so far might be the most disappointing horror franchise to me, with one great low budget start and its weak follow up, a bland upgrade, a watchably tired American remake and now this. I really like the world, characters and mythology these films develops if only it can be used better. Black Ghost may try to expand itself but instead of embracing what this property is in just end up fighting it, making for a frustrated experience that by the end feel more like witnessing somebody fighting with themselves then sheer profound horror, it doesn’t move deeper into hell or up towards the never ending sky, it’s mostly stagnant yet unfocused.

Having now seen two attempts at making Ju On a bigger budgeted franchise and both times failing, I’ll argue and say for me atleast the appeal of Ju On is when it is low budget, when the horror is created out of restrictions and simplicity. My dream would honestly be seeing a collection of big horror directors try their hand at this franchise but forced into its limitations kinda like Dogma 95, not only to see their craft push to its most bare and essential but also because people who can pull off these films off well require a real grasp, skill, knowledge and clarity of what makes something scary and foreboding, Ju On Black Ghost primarily doesn’t. 


With its melodramatic plot, too fluid camerawork, cheap production design, cartoonish sound design and a unsatisfying structure that cuts away from the big scare way too much that it becomes annoying and teasing then suspenseful or frightening, Black Ghost is clearly ambitious, it is trying to do something new and I like the idea of following the curse manifesting into a new ghost this time but this falls mostly flat. Not only does each of the episodes of the Curse for example worked as their own short films when these does not but in that film if you pay close attention you begin to catch reoccurring motifs that clue us in into the rules and motivations of the ghost, here we basically make it up as we go along and the same goes for the characters who feels less tangible or relatable. 


I don’t really know how to end this the same way the film doesn’t really knew how to end either, Ju On from what I’ve seen so far might be the most disappointing horror franchise to me, with one great low budget start and its weak follow up, a bland upgrade, a watchably tired American remake and now this. I really like the world, characters and mythology these films develops if only it can be used better. Black Ghost may try to expand itself but instead of embracing what this property is in just end up fighting it, making for a frustrated experience that by the end feel more like witnessing somebody fighting with themselves then sheer profound horror, it doesn’t move deeper into hell or up towards the never ending sky, it’s mostly stagnant yet unfocused.

Having now seen two attempts at making Ju On a bigger budgeted franchise and both times failing, I’ll argue and say for me atleast the appeal of Ju On is when it is low budget, when the horror is created out of restrictions and simplicity. My dream would honestly be seeing a collection of big horror directors try their hand at this franchise but forced into its limitations kinda like Dogma 95, not only to see their craft push to its most bare and essential but also because people who can pull off these films off well require a real grasp, skill, knowledge and clarity of what makes something scary and foreboding, Ju On Black Ghost primarily doesn’t. 


With its melodramatic plot, too fluid camerawork, cheap production design, cartoonish sound design and a unsatisfying structure that cuts away from the big scare way too much that it becomes annoying and teasing then suspenseful or frightening, Black Ghost is clearly ambitious, it is trying to do something new and I like the idea of following the curse manifesting into a new ghost this time but this falls mostly flat. Not only does each of the episodes of the Curse for example worked as their own short films when these does not but in that film if you pay close attention you begin to catch reoccurring motifs that clue us in into the rules and motivations of the ghost, here we basically make it up as we go along and the same goes for the characters who feels less tangible or relatable. 


I don’t really know how to end this the same way the film doesn’t really knew how to end either, Ju On from what I’ve seen so far might be the most disappointing horror franchise to me, with one great low budget start and its weak follow up, a bland upgrade, a watchably tired American remake and now this. I really like the world, characters and mythology these films develops if only it can be used better. Black Ghost may try to expand itself but instead of embracing what this property is in just end up fighting it, making for a frustrated experience that by the end feel more like witnessing somebody fighting with themselves then sheer profound horror, it doesn’t move deeper into hell or up towards the never ending sky, it’s mostly stagnant yet unfocused.