Why Asian-Horror Remakes Flatten the Ambiguity

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Between 2002 and 2009, Hollywood bought the Japanese and Korean horror boom wholesale and shipped it back with the accent removed. The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002) took Hideo Nakata’s Ringu. The Grudge (2004) hired Takashi Shimizu to remake his own Ju-on on a Sony budget. Dark Water (Walter Salles, 2005) redid Nakata again. Pulse (2006) bought Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kairo. One Missed Call (2008) took Takashi Miike’s Chakushin Ari. The Uninvited (2009) reworked Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters. Some of these were competent. The Ring was genuinely good. And every one of them, without exception, performed the same operation on the original: it explained the ghost.

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Why Asian-Horror Remakes Flatten the Ambiguity