Japanese Horror Films and Their American Remakes by Wee Valerie

Author:Wee, Valerie. [Valerie Wee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134109760
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Ju-On, however, presents a world that deliberately obliterates the boundaries that maintain the difference between “the whole and the proper body … and that which threatens its integrity …” Ju-On’s horror, therefore, lies in this loss of order, coherence, stability. In Ju-On, horror is defined by incoherence, ambiguity, and the unknowable, qualities that are also represented in the film’s style and aesthetics.

Balmain has commented on Ju-On’s visual and aesthetic incoherence, arguing that the film refuses to bestow any power to the traditionally privileged (male) spectatorial subject position by deliberately constructing and organizing visual sequences that overtly deny coherence, meaning, or stable sources of identification (“Loneliness”). As Balmain notes,

In … Ju-On … the narrative follows an episodic structure, disallowing the spectator any position of power or potency over the events on the cinematic screen. This disturbs western conceptualizations of the spectatorial position as one of power and activity (Mulvey et al.), which rely on the traditional subject/object dualism. (“Loneliness”)

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