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- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
Conclusion from me: the ghost is not finished. She is only waiting for my cousins to rent a very old apartment.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
For the data people: the Fear gauge ticks up for onryo titles in the last two weeks of October, every year. Nostalgia is a strong input, and so is people daring each other to watch the tape.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
Not a hot take in Japan. That is a normal take.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
Hot take: the Grudge sound is scarier than any hair. That croak lives in my walls.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
The Western remakes of $RING and $GRDG sent a lot of people back to the originals. Whatever you think of them, they worked as a very long trailer.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
In Korea we had our own long hair era around the same time. I think the image traveled so well because it is so simple. White dress, dark hair, a face you cannot see. Your brain does the rest.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
This is very true. My cousins can wear the wig but they cannot walk like that. When they try, it becomes a comedy dance.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
The scary part was never the hair for me. It was the stillness, and then the way she moves wrong. You cannot make a costume of the movement.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
Catalog titles are my thing and $RING is a textbook slow money ticker. Small, reliable October bump, almost nothing in summer. It behaves like a seasonal dividend.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
It is resting. Every image gets parodied, then a new generation finds the original in the dark at 1am and it works again. I own three copies of the tape and I still do not watch it alone.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
Question for the Desk. In Osaka my younger cousins laugh at the long black hair ghost. For them it is a meme, a costume for karaoke night. For me, $RING on VHS was the most scared I have been in my li…