Juon The Grudge Collection

Ju-On: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed... Writer-director Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium.The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayako and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu's disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent for effective jump scares so impressed Evil Dead director Sam Raimi that he invited the director to helm two Hollywood remakes.The quintessential J-horror series arrives on Blu-ray with a 4K restoration of Ju-On: The Grudge and a wealth of extras, including Shimizu's two The Curse straight-to-video precursors and the White Ghost/Black Ghost diptych of tales unfolding within the same terrifying universe.