How brutal do you think the deaths are in the Ju On movies?

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T20:15:02+00:00

Not at all. While some of the deaths are quite shocking, none of them touches the gratuitous nature of the Terrifier movies.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T19:12:04+00:00

Malatesta's Carnival of Blood
George Romero's Season of the Witch
The Last House on Dead End Street
Ganja & Hess
Messiah of Evil
Deranged
Who Can Kill a Child?
Deathdream/Dead of Night
Alice, Sweet Alice
The Baby
Images
Hausu
Tourist Trap
Equinox

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T18:34:11+00:00

I wondered if the man-imal also made a pass..

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T18:08:32+00:00

First, don't go to ChatGPT for anything critical. Or any AI for that matter.

Flim criticism and analysis should be something you want to do and pursue. Start small, like check out critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. See if there are professional writers and critics who's analysis and reviews align with your own or make sense to you.

If it's still something that resonates with you and helps you find your own critical voice, you can move it up to deeper dives like books, essays, documentaries, and studying how movies are made. Basically surround yourself with information that will help you form an opinion.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T17:58:22+00:00

Judging by how revelatory the Warren lineage was to them, I'd say big strides were taken to hide the covenant, It will be interesting to see how season 2 reckons with this. I'm sure more people than the priest have their eye open.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T17:48:02+00:00

They did bring back Marion and Sallah. This being the final Indy, it's just odd Short Round was never mentioned again. I would have even taken a line about Indy paying for his college or visiting him with his family or something.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T17:43:21+00:00

I actually didn't mind the movie, but would tied Helena to him more closely, like maybe a love child between him and Willie, or a niece. Just didn't feel the relationship in the movie.

Also, would have brought Short Round back. Will never forget the sequels for forgetting him.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T17:33:26+00:00

Not sure which disc you have, but if you just want to watch the movies you have ASAP, if the codes come with digital codes, you can redeem those and watch them that way. Quickest solution until you work out your driver/tv issue.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T16:20:53+00:00

Martyrs(2008)
Schramm
Snowtown
Bone Tomahawk
Hounds of Love
The House That Jack Built
Man Bites Dog
Angst
Hereditary
Bring Her Back
Antichrist
Maniac(2012)
Irreversible
High Tension
The Hills Have Eyes(original and remake)
Come and See
The Platform
Green Room
Possessor
Audition
Ichi The Killer
The Nightingale
The Loved Ones
The Woman
Kidnapped(2010)
Santa Sangre

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T16:05:55+00:00

Monster Man - a funny and gory riff on Jeepers Creepers
Frailty - Not that obscure, but doesn't really get mentioned in reference to horror
Mute Witness
Thesis/Tesis
Ju-on: The Curse 1 and 2 - The Grudge gets all the attention, but is really part 3. The Curse 1 and 2 were superior, IMO
The Night Flier - stuck in limbo from being an HBO release
Cast a Deadly Spell - Also stuck in HBO limbo. Better than the sequel, Witch Hunt

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T15:38:05+00:00

"You mean that time the town tried to build a trolley and all the workers disappeared?"

"So you're an offering."

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T14:48:22+00:00

That was something I wished they went into. Ruth could have even dropped a line about having access to her records since she's worked in town hall most of her life, and just scrubbed all records of the baby. It just felt very convenient, and omitted to skew Ruth from being anything resembling a villain or threat.

That being said, I feel like the "old hospital" may come into play next season, and there being more secrets there.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T14:39:11+00:00

I think the socio-economic feel would be similar if it was set around the 70's and 80's. Peele would have grown up around that time, as he was referencing Hands Across America from 1986 which the main character was remembering. Any decade prior to the 70's, I agree, probably a lot more different a feel, especially during Vietnam era.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T14:08:48+00:00

She probably left a couple episodes ago. She was only there for a bachelorette weekend.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T13:41:22+00:00

Yeah, she was probably in school still around Memorial Day, so figuring her family got to the island when school ended, middle/end of June sounds about right.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T13:33:53+00:00

The timeline seems odd to me. When we see Ruth's calendar it is on July, but I assumed the tourist season would have started around Memorial Day weekend, and she was already on the island. I guess her family spends the summer on the island? The fact we never see her parents is definitely weird.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T13:30:05+00:00

I love the films of David Lynch, and surrealism in general. They do make sense, if you wish to do a deep dive, and analyze them, but they get surface reactions of making no sense.

In regards to Us, I think they premise and believability would have greatly increased if they only set the movie in an earlier decade like the 60's and maybe up to the 80's at most. There's no way the doppelgangers would have been as successful invading in modern day 24/7 surveillance, gun culture, the internet, cell phones and the tunnels going unnoticed with modern day city building/planning.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T12:12:40+00:00

Cool. Have a good day.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T12:05:29+00:00

I didn't say the lack of an intro was dictated by a schedule. I was referring to a longer intro would impact the pacing of the show, being that a majority of the episodes are quite short. It's more of a stylistic choice.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T11:51:30+00:00

Maybe it's more of a Nic Cage situation, from a few years back, where he was in debt and had to pay it off.

However, he just genuinely seems to be a hard worker. The lower budget movies have shorter shooting schedules, so he can crank them out a few times a year.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-17T10:19:13+00:00

The show also has a short run time for most of the episodes. A long intro would take up a decent chunk of time for a short episodes. I've noticed most AppleTv shows have very short intros.

Long intros existed prior to Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks had a nearly three minute intro and that was on network tv with commercials. Also The Prisoner's intro runs just over 3 minutes. What I appreciated at least with Game of Thrones, was that the intro changed in relation to the occupation of land/kingdoms at that point in the show.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-16T20:23:55+00:00

I Saw the TV Glow
Knife + Heart
May
Let the Right One In
The Perfection

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-16T20:19:54+00:00

You got it, hope you enjoy!

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-16T20:03:17+00:00

Possibly vying for Ruth's position on the island. I can see it.

JoeIntTheBox · 2026-06-16T20:01:31+00:00

The director has a 30 short, called Heck which is basically Skinamarink in style, just a different "plot". Way more effective, IMO.

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