Movie originals and remakes

The movie I have decided to talk about is the grudge and the ring and both movies are made share the same genres which are both horror and psychological making a hybrid genre for both movies.  Some of the movie themes are ghost and violence.

The grudge is an American remake. The original was called Ju – oh: the grudge which was originally a Japanese movie which was released in 2003. My opinion is that the ordinals are often at times better and then the remake and so is Ju – oh: the grudge. I also think that the acting is a whole lot better in the original then the remake. I can also relate to the character in the original since they are young teenage kids that go to high school and acted more scared then the remake actors.  The atmosphere felt completely different it was like fire and water when I watched both movies. 

The build up to both movies are also very too different to each other one is fast paste with build-up while the other is very slow and is not understandable as the other. What I liked about both was that both movies used the same actress and actor for the girl that plays as the girl that’s a ghost and the boy that plays as the ghost. There are also just more intense more scary moments in the original in the movie that had my heart beating fast then the remake. The remake of the grudge was made a year later 2004 so it not much time passed by. The movie has sort of the same story but has different routes that the movies time from each other.

The ring was originally also a Japanese movie like the grudge which also got turned into a remake for the American audience. The original was created in 1998 while the remake was made in 2002. Again the original movie wasn’t made that long ago yet for some reason the director decided to remake the movie this can be can because of a lot of reasons such as the he was lazy or it cost less as for the movie budget or maybe the director thought it was so good that  he just wanted a remake. I would have to say that I prefer the remake over the ordinal as I preferred the actors epically the two main characters which are Naomi watts who play as Rachel Keller the mother and David Dorfman who plays as Aian Keller the son. Both have great bonding moments as both mother and son care for each other a lot in the movie. 

I really like Naomi Watts character as she is very protective of her son and would go to the depths of hell and risk her own life to save her son and she shows this multiply times throughout the movie while. In original it isn’t and that’s why way I like the remake more it feel like the characters are more real. I also liked the special effect used when the ghost comes out through the movie and this suspense music comes up bring fear to the audience’s hearts.

Like I said before originals are often at times better this is as I explained in both of the movies that I talked about and why I prefer the originals over the remake over the other one.