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Message: [QUOTE="UnDubious, post: 88314, member: 4030"] House is a near masterpiece even if I don't think of it as "real" horror. Incredibly creative and hilarious. I never really thought of Battle Royale in that way either, but I guess all those types of movies could be seen as such. Great movie. I've seen the Japanese Dark Water, it's not bad. Based on a story by the same writer as Ring so it's in the same vein. I thought the first One Missed Call was good (the Japanese original). It's true that it takes ideas from the whole J-horror wave and puts them all together, but it does it more efficiently and is faster-moving. It's like a concentrate of all those movies. The munchausen angle was interesting too. Sweet Home is a pretty typical haunted house story, nothing amazing. There were lots of movies about ghosts, vampires, etc. long before the term "j-horror" came out in the late '90s, and a really good one is Lake of Dracula. It's one of those movies where you worry for the main character. For a completely random one that came after the genre's prime, Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit is way better than it gets credit for. Intriguing story, creepy atmosphere, well-worth a watch IMO. [/QUOTE]

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