Water is also one of the main themes in one of the best Japanese scare flicks ever, Cure, and features prominently in Suicide Forest Village (2021) or the Ju-On: The Grudge series where a child was drowned and became a successful car salesman and community leader. No, wait, my handwriting sucks; he actually became… what a surprise, a vengeful spirit. There’s also the 2006 movie Death Water, but I don’t want to spoil anything about its main themes, etc. The suspense is what makes the horror work!
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So, I ask again: why is Japanese horror so moist? See, the thing is, a lot of scary Japanese movies ultimately boil down to a kind of showdown between technology/modernity and the world of nature, with the films clearly favoring the latter. That’s why so many of these movies feature a corruption or destruction of symbols of modernity. For example, in The Ring, it was VHS, which was high-tech when the story was first written. In The Grudge, it’s modern Japanese suburbs that are being dismantled and made gory. In the end, all those representations of our seemingly safe, contemporary lives are proven to be a brittle façade that cannot protect us from the all-powerful forces of nature. And water is a pretty easy shorthand for those very forces.
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Why Is Japanese Horror So Moist?
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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