Ju On 3: The Beginning of the End

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It was my first time watching a movie at the cinema ALONE and that movie watched is none other than
Ju On 3: The Beginning of the End ( a great choice, right?) 

 Because what's better than watching a movie alone? Watching a horror flick alone 

( I mean, at the cinema. I've watched various horror movies alone on my laptop)

I have this paranoia (so many!) of people kidnapping me when I'm watching movie alone in the cinema thus I've never got to try it. It could happen, you know *serious voice* thus I was clutching the pepper spray tight in my left hand for the first five minutes. The remaining time there was spent stuffing myself with the popcorn because what's better than watching a horror flick alone in the cinema? Having your own popcorn! No need to share with your friends/siblings, LOL. 

Theatre number 8 was located at the end of the hallway( hohoho) and as I entered it, it was less than 10 people inside, of which all of them were with their respective partners/friends. 

My seat was quite far from the 'crowd' because I would like to fully cherish the experience of having to watch a movie in the cinema alone, thank you very much. No point of watching it alone if you're gonna have to blend in with the 'crowd', right? 

So, I was in the middle of the theatre. I was the only person in that particular row. Not a single soul in front of me. No one in the row behind me. The closest human being available there was the couple at the far right at the row behind my immediate empty backrow (get it?) 

In a way, I was alone. Just me and my popcorn. The big screen flashing in front of me, my own movie theatre yes! I was about to watch Ju On, supposedly one of the scariest horror movies in the world. Oh yeah? Ju On could be lurking in the dark, crouching and crawling at the empty spaces, ready to pull me into her world of supernatural beings.

Wrong. Ju On is not a person/ghost. It's a curse. LOL. Cast by those who had harboured immense anger and grudge when they're about to die. I don't know. That's what the movie said.

SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!

If you have the intention to experience watching Ju On alone in the cinema, then come after you have watched the movie.

Or if you don't, oh well...go ahead and read then. 

So, the movie started with the definition of 'Ju On', then to this house in Japan. It's a pretty- looking house, with a sweeping staircase that leads to the first floor once you opened the front door. Three people entered the house. A policeman, a woman from the Child Abuse Prevention society or something like that, and the guy who was holding the camera and recording the whole thing. They received a report about a child abuse case which took place in the house. 

Like any good horror flick, the camera lackadaisically focused on anything which caught 'its' fancy. Kind of like the 'Blair Witch Project'. So, you won't know what will appear in front of the camera. They went upstairs, calling 'Toshio kun, Toshio kun'. 

Toshio Saeki, the pale boy in the previous Ju On movies..You know him, right? 

The woman and the policeman went into the room on the second floor. The cameraman stopped at the staircase and suddenly the woman and the policeman bolted out of the room, clearly shocked. They found Toshio kun inside, dead for several days. The woman and policeman went downstairs, out of the house while the cameraman went inside. Inside the sliding wardrobe, he saw the dead body of Tashio-kun covered with blood. 

Cue more horror music background, the cameraman fumbled with his camera and suddenly Tashio-kun appeared in front of him. Screen faded to black. Sort of. 

Then, moving on to Yui, a young woman who became a substitute teacher for an elementary school. Apparently, Tashio was in her class and he had been absent for 7 days. She went to Toshio's house, and WHOAAA

Someone was standing in at the back of the staircase, looking so scary and horrifying whatsoever with her pale face, eerie smile and long, uncombed black hair O___O. 

HAHAHAHA

I almost dropped my box of popcorn. 

That was Kayako Saeki, Toshio's mother. She was the scariest ghost in the movie. But of course, Yui thought she was still alive. Kayako said Toshio's father took Toshio and when Yui wanted to ask more, she disappeared. Yui went upstairs to Toshio's room and bla bla bla I forgot then Kayako appeared out of nowhere, inviting Yui to have tea downstairs, and she disappeared again. Yui went downstairs and saw a cup of tea which didn't seem that it was freshly prepared. She saw Kayako sitting down on the tatami mat, her back facing Yui, and Kayako was doing something. 

Yui called Kayako several times, dup dap, dup dap, she moved slowly to look at Kayako and BAM! 

Kayako abruptly turned towards her, continued to look at Yui with the most ghastly expression with her hand scribbling furiously onto the notebook, drawing spirals thingy. 

Yui ran out of the house. 

Now, moving on to Manami, or is it Minami? Okay, a group of 4 high school girls went to take a look inside the house. The house was unoccupied after the murder of a boy; Toshio. Minami saw Toshio inside the room, and she screamed and her friends laughed at her. Not much of scary parts here. I found Toshio cute, rather than scary. Kayako, on the other hand.... *shudder*

Then later on the four of them suffered insufferable deaths.

And...let's skip the boring parts. 

Yui was alone at school marking exam papers when suddenly she saw the ever-scary Kayako walking down the dark and dim hallway and Yui chased after her. Even the way she walked is freaking scary!!! Plus her long hair which flowed down her back!! T___T

Kayako entered the classroom and when Yui came in, Kayako was nowhere to be found but instead, she found a diary on the table. She began reading the diary and Kayako was behind her,muahahaha..

Yui's boyfriend Naoto came home and saw Yui standing in front of the window. Yui then began touching the window glass with her finger and began to furiously scribble the spirals thingy (what's with it?) and later on she fainted. 

Naoto then found out from the real estate agent that 19 years ago, Toshio was found dead in the house. and that 10 years ago, the real estate agent's wife, and her younger sister (one of the girls mentioned earlier) died soon after they entered the house. 

Then  Naoto also died after reading Kayako's diary which he found inside Yui's bag, which then left us to Yui, alone. 

This is the awesomest part of it all. Because Kayako was in these scenes. Yui went to the house, and found a box of tapes of which she played it at the house living room. Basically about how Kayako and Toshio were murdered by Takeo Saeki, Kayako's husband. 

Yui went inside the sliding Doraemon-like wardrobe and she opened up the top of the wardrobe connecting to the roof. She poked her head out into the space under the roof and she found the disfigured body of Kayako. Kayako suddenly opened her eyes and she crawled in the most hideous, horrifying manner, so much faster than Usain Bolt and began to chase Yui. Yui ran out and went downstairs, and found Toshio. Then Kayako again, then Toshio, Kayako. It seems like she was stuck in the middle with nowhere to run. 

Kayako is scary OMG. 

Then, Yui woke up. Apparently, she was dreaming. She went outside and was greeted by Naoto, her dead boyfriend who was walking with his head twisted to the back. It was rather comical, LOL. Then, Toshio touched her hand. 

Conclusion: Takeo tought that Kayako was cheating on him and that Toshio was not his son. So he killed Kayako. Kayako, on the other hand, wanted to have children so much that she prayed that kami-sama gave her any soul, anyone's children to her. So the restless spirit Toshio who was found dead earlier in the movie entered her body and Kayako delivered a son, who shared an uncanny resemblance to the dead Toshio (same boy of course). The thing is....there were 2 Toshios? Which one is the original Toshio?  Anyway, the house was cursed, and anyone who entered it, even for a second, would face the most horrifying death, muahahahaha...

THE END. 

I was alone right? And there was no one for me to hold to during the scary parts (read: Kayako) so I just covered half of my face with the then already-empty popcorn box, LOL. 

It was surreal. It gave me the chills. Whenever I see a flight stairs, even at my home, I would be reminded of Kayako. *shiver*. 

So, how do I find it?

KAYAKO IS SCARY. 

My ratings: 4 and a half stars. 

Kayako still gives me the chills. Try watching it alone just like I did (with no one in front, left, right, back, sitting in the centre, in the dark) and see how! :P