The most important thing when making a B-grade J-horror is to plan a movie loosely based on a popular video game. The looser, the loser, the better. Make the plot as unoriginal as you can, and with the investors’ approval because J-horror always sells, wield your imagination! Go wild, no holds barred.
But in any J-horror we always have the same characters, maybe different roles but since they all look the same to me, allow me to introduce the key characters:
The Father. He is the one who makes all the decisions in the household, including migrating his family to an isolated island where the people behave weirdly and stare kok at you at all time. Still he finds nothing wrong with it even though modern culture denotes that it is a recipe for impending disaster.
The Daughter. She is the one who actually takes care of the household because for some reason or the other, Japanese mothers have low high mortality rate. She has eyes straight out of Final Fantasy, she is usually of average height and slim build, and she is the one who just HAS to check out the source of weird creaks and screeches originating from various dark corners of a house/jungle. Almost needless to say, she is the heroine of the movie. Well, as heroine as a J-horror could produce.
The Mysterious Son. He who never speaks, stands like a timber, always manages to disappear even after being explicitly told to ‘don’t go too far away’, gazes and points his finger into empty space, basically the child you wish you never had. Why? Because if you have a child like that, be prepared to encounter a vengeful spirit at some point of your life. Why? Because J-horror says so.
So this is how your plot works:
So easy like grazing grass in a field of cows.
Next: The Mystery Unsolved.
haahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (applause)
see, THAT’S why i don’t bother watching jap horror movies. well actually, i don’t fancy watching ANY horror movies at all. either they’re completely ridiculous, or completely banking on cheap scares that, well, scare the fuck out of me. non-supernatural thrillers are better. psycho shit is teh good.
LOL… the little boy, so typical!!!
i like The Host (korean) veli veli much =)
You left out Godzilla!
you mean “high mortality rate”. haha.
you rock my sockkkkkkkkksssssss.
err..what’s the siren for?
off topic.. i just tasted Reese’s Peanut butter cups.. and it is oh so delicious! yumm yumm!
i just saw one sort-of horror jap movie on channel 23.. the great yaoki war or something.. that was funny and not scary at all.. hehehe..
If you think jap horror movies are bad… wait till you watch the new batch of spooks comin out from our neighbouring thailand… cliche to the point of puke inducing…
Chen: ooo i love horror movies 😀 some are just shit tho, and ky will disagree with me on that
YP: heh yeah
cyber red: heard it’s good, haven’t seen it yet
mad: uhm… hokay….. (?!?!)
lishun: yeap, my bad 😀
stupe: check next post
Arifah: oO where did you buy them ?
cmos: what names la
Gah… of course, 2 follows 1, but not in a blog, where numbers run backwards.