The drama version of "The Grudge" is coming...
As one of the most classic horror films in history, the big IP of Curse can be said to have fed a lot of horror film industry lines, open the Douban search for the word "Grudge", and various posters come to the face:
Japanese version, American version, new version... "Curse 1", "Curse 2", "Curse 3"...
Anyway, as long as there are still people making horror movies, there will definitely be people remaking the story of "The Grudge".
Also because it is too scary, so "The Grudge" has never been out of the drama version, most of the horror film length will be controlled within 2 hours, after all, people's psychological endurance has a limit, and the horror index of the drama version will be diluted.
But such a good IP, Netflix, which is known for its heavy mouth, will not let go.
So in 2020, after waiting for 20 years, the drama version of "Grudge" - "House of Grudge" finally came.
"House of Curses" is the first original series in the 20 years since the birth of the "Curses" series, and the story does not tell anything else, but revolves around the unknown events that occurred in the "Curse House", the origin of "Cursed House".
Judging from the Caste team, House of Curses is definitely one of the most anticipated horror episodes of 2020.
The series director is Sing Miyake, a cutting-edge director of Japanese anti-youth film narratives, who has directed the high-scoring film "Your Birds Will Sing".
The most powerful are screenwriters Hiroshi Takahashi and Ichise, who served as the producer of the film version of "The Grudge".
Hiroshi Takahashi's masterpiece is another high-scoring classic "Midnight Bell", Sadako, the image that once scared many people, came from his pen, and this time he went out of the mountain to make many fans shout and look forward to it.
In the starring lineup, Kuroshima Yuki has also participated in the performance of the 2014 version of "Grudge: The Beginning of the End" and the 2015 version of "Grudge: The End", which is considered to be experienced.
Therefore, although it is jointly produced by Netflix, the creative team of "House of Curses" is absolutely Japanese.
Previously, several American versions of "The Grudge" have been criticized, criticizing hollywood for making ghost films that are always bloody and insufficient.
The reason why "Curse" is classic is because the ghost owner is too resentful, and the atmosphere created by the film is too depressing, which is completely in line with the tone of East Asian culture, and with some moderate jump scare, it is enough to scare people out of breath.
And this drama version of "The Grudge" uses an all-Japanese team, and it comes with ambition at a glance.
Taste this turquoise background shade:
This enlarges the pupil and the angle of the shot:
And, of course, this poster that many people will never forget:
Being by Netflix like this, I feel that he has come back with resentment again...
The drama version of "Grudge" will be launched within the year, it is expected to be July, a total of 6 episodes, and only a trailer of less than 2 minutes has been released at present, with not much content, but the elements are very rich, and several flashes of shots are quite infiltrative.
For example, this is the case:
such:
Black and white pictures, old newspapers, old characters, pregnant women, deformed babies... It seems that the atmosphere creation is still in place.
However, the drama version is the drama version after all, most of the horror films are adapted into TV series, the horror index will be reduced, and the viewing platform of the long drama is different movies, and if you want to start broadcasting smoothly, it is necessary to grasp the scale.
But then again, the horror of "The Grudge" is not all on the screen, and the most frightening thing about Japanese horror movies is that the ghost masters attack people indiscriminately.
If you are a good person or a bad person, as long as you enter the house of curses, you don't want to go out alive.
As long as the drama version of "Curse" grasps this point, creates a good atmosphere, tells the story well, and does not make it more than foreign and insufficient, there is still a win.
After all, "The Grudge" wins with resentment, not with heavy mouths.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department | Lao Wang
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