Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off. Sadako v.s Kayako is basically the Alien v.s Predator and the Freddy v.s Jason of horror movie tropes that keeps happening from once in a while but it's also worse from the earlier as well since it was neither exciting or fun to begin with but also just a waste of my time as well but at least not money so that's great at least. The story was pretty dumb and the acting was even worse to be honest and if you're a fan of those 2 characters? Perhaps see it but if not? Definitely skip it until the end of days. (F)

"Sadako v Kayako" was a disappointing crossover. I've read fan fiction with better writing than this film. "Ju-on:The Grudge" and "Ringu" individually were superior to this. Go watch those instead, and read a fan fiction if you want a well-written mashup. Before I start tearing into this rushed cash grab, I want to acknowledge that there are some good things in this film.Sadako and Kayako's costumes are spectacular and their 2 minute "face- off" was okay...Now that that's out of the way, let's get right into the review.1.) The Technical - This film is very dark...No, really, it's so dark that I had to squint and turn off all of the lights in my room just to see what was happening on the screen. I haven't seen this much dark-blue tinting since the first Twilight film.2.)The Story/Characters - The characters are about as simplistic they come. We follow the story of Yuri Kurahashi and Suzuka Takagi who have been afflicted by Sadako and Kayako's curses, to save themselves, they enlist the help of a priestess and her crew, after she attempts to perform an exorcism on Natsumi( A friend of Yuri), Sadako emerges and brutally murders the priestess and her crew.When this fails, the girls contact a "famous" exorcist by the name of Kyozo and his mysterious blind and psychic "associate" Tamao. These characters are never developed or elaborated. Kyozo seems to have the magic ability to wave his fingers in the air and repel Sadako and Kayako's abilities. How can he do this? Never explained. Why is Tamao psychic? Never explained. How did they become such renowned supernatural investigators? Never explained. They are famous exorcists who know Sadako and Kayako from head to toe and you just need to accept that.3.)The Ending - The ending was probably the worst part of the film.It was so surreal, uncalled for and detached from reality that I had to re- watch it about three times to truly comprehend it. As horrendous as it is, I want you to experience it for yourself, I'll warn you right now, keep your mouth closed or else you'll catch flies."Sadako v Kayako" is something I would only watch again with friends for laughs. Otherwise, I wouldn't waste my time.

Schoolgirl Natsumi (Aimi Satsukawa) asks her friend Yuri (Mizuki Yamamoto) if she can transfer her parents' wedding video onto DVD; in order to do so, the girls buy an old VHS player in which they discover an old tape that turns out to be a fabled cursed video that, once watched, invokes deadly long haired spook Sadako (Elly Nanami), who materialises to kill her victims two days later.After their initial attempts to break the curse fail, Natsumi and Yuri's only hope lies with spiritual medium Kyozo (Masanobu Andô) and his young assistant Tamao (Maiko Kikuchi), who decide to pit Sadako against grudge spirits Kayako (Runa Endo) and Toshio (Rintaro Shibamoto) in a battle for the girls' souls. Meanwhile, schoolgirl Suzuka (Tina Tamashiro) also finds herself cursed when she enters the haunted home of Kayako and her son Toshio — can Suzuka's life also be saved as a result of the supernatural battle?Films featuring onryō (vengeful Japanese spooks) really do very little for me: I thought that Ringu (Ring) was mediocre and found The Grudge (Ju-on) incredibly boring. Director Kôji Shiraishi tries to inject a little life into the tired genre with this mash-up of these well known franchises, but all he succeeds in making is a film that, rather predictably, falls somewhere between mediocre and incredibly boring.Following lots of talk and some not-at-all-scary scenes in which the spooks make brief appearances, the titular fight between the ghosts finally ensues, and it's extremely underwhelming, like two women having a pathetic cat-fight, with little kid Toshio sticking up for his mum. If you're an avid fan of Japanese ghost movies, you might get a kick out of seeing these legendary spirits scratch and claw at each other, but I'll never understand the appeal.

So I finally got a chance to go and see this movie. I just want to say that I have always loved the Ring franchise, even the American version, and the Grudge franchise. I was so excited to hear that they were making a crossover 'versus' movie involving Kayako and Sadako. Unfortunately, this movie killed my hype and I have been very disappointed.The plot is actually very simple and exactly what the title says. A young Japanese woman watches the tape of Sadako and has a few days left to live. In order to prevent herself from dying, she takes the tape to the house of Kayako's. On the day Sadako is released from the tape, the two vengeful spirits will face off.In case you don't know who they both are, Sadako is from the Ring franchise. She is a cursed spirit who haunts a video tape and kills anybody who watches it in seven days, which is how long she was in the well and how long she survived for. Kayako is a deadly spirit who was in love with this guy and was murdered by her husband, who, in a fit of anger and sorrow, got her neck snapped and only allows her to growl. Her son also got killed by drowning by his own father for witnessing the murder and the two now haunt the house and kills whoever enters it. My thoughts on the movie was that it was bad writing and the script was awful. I only give it two points for the great effects and 1 point for the crossover idea. My suggestion, watch it when you have absolutely nothing else better to do.