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   Evil Sponge wrote:   
   >>> The Grudge did it for me, although as per Sponge-y I watched that   
   >>> alone in the darkness. I thought The Ring was a bit tamer.   
   >   
   > I haven't seen The Grudge, but my feeling about horror films is this:   
   > it's very easy to make someone jump. A quick movement on screen   
   > coupled with an extremely loud noise is such a basic way of giving a   
   > quick scare - it's too easy. Films that are truly frightening will   
   > leave you unsettled and thinking about them for weeks afterwards. For   
   > me, The Ring was such a film. It's been a couple of years since I saw   
   > it now, and it still occasionally pops into my head when I don't want   
   > it do. God knows why I would want to do this to myself...   
      
   Check out The Grudge. But it has gotta be by yourself late at night ;-) This   
   is the US version btw, I didn't find the original quite so scary.   
      
   One of the things I like about J-Horror, although it all gets a bit samey,   
   is that it doesn't tend to rely so much on gore or simple scares, and gets   
   in your head in a sort of nightmarish way.   
      
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