While many of the best Japanese horror movies were cursed with subpar American remakes, there are a handful of cult classics that avoided this fate.
While Hollywood was obsessed with remaking Japanese horror movies for a few decades, this did not stop a few cult classics from slipping through the fingers of studio executives. There are a few great Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror movies. For example, director Gore Verbinski’s take on The Ring is arguably as strong as Hideo Nakata’s original Ringu, and 2004’s The Grudge does a solid job of recapturing the appeal of 2002’s Ju-On: The Grudge.
9 Marebito The Grudge’s Takashi Shimizu directed 2004's Marebito, a found footage horror that sees a death-obsessed photographer stumble across a strange mute woman with Lovecraftian origins. While The Blair Witch Project made the found footage format horror famous shortly before the cycle of Japanese horror remakes began, it is still no surprise that Marebito never received a Hollywood reboot.
6 Audition Director Takashi Miike’s slow-burn horror Audition is a tense thriller for most of its runtime. However, the ending plunges Audition into full-blown horror with one unforgettable sequence. When a lonely widower holds fake “auditions” to find himself a suitable partner, he thinks he has hit the jackpot with the submissive, sweet Asami. His son isn’t so sure, but it is not until over halfway through Audition that viewers discover who to believe.
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