Horror Movie Review: Don’t Look Up (2009)
Directed by Fruit Chan, Don’t Look Up is an American remake of the 1996 Hideo Nakata film of the same name (Joyû-rei). An incoherent mess that frustrates and bores.
Directed by Fruit Chan, Don’t Look Up is an American remake of the 1996 Hideo Nakata film of the same name (Joyû-rei). An incoherent mess that frustrates and bores.
How do you follow up one of the most successful and influential J-horrors ever made? Simple, give us more of the same while expanding on the backstory of the villain and the mystery of the videotape.
If someone asked you to show them what J-Horror is chances are it’s Ring (Ringu) that you’re going to reach for. While the genre might have existed in some form before the 1998 release of the movie, it’s the terror here that brought it into prominence.
Alongside The Ring, Dark Water is one of the most famous horror movies to come out of Japan, popular enough