Asian Beauty Appreciation

I first saw “Ju-On” in 2003. I was at my sister’s for Christmas, and she rented it for some after-dinner entertainment. She could not have made a better or worse choice for a holiday movie!

It is not for kids or even faint-hearted adults. It is jarring, intense, dismal, taut to the breaking point, and one of the best horror movies I have ever seen. This film breaks the mold and sets a new standard for horror.

It has gore, but not splattered all over the screen. It has pretty girls, but no sex, It has ghosts but not the soft eerie kind that go bump in the night. No, this movie’s ghost’s intent is not to scare, but to destroy, and destroy it does; consuming everything in it’s path, this ghost does not boo!, it groans.

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Back when your grandparents were dating – let’s make that era sometime in the 1950′s, a film star was known the world over for simply standing on a grating on a Manhattan street and having a wind draft from below lift up her skirt.

That would be the legendary Marilyn Monroe and the film was called The Seven Year Itch. Monroe’s career was already in high gear by that time (1955), and an iconic picture like what was used in the film’s poster (next image below), only added to her allure. Sadly, she died in her sleep in 1962, having made, in fact, only six more films after this one.

This film was a male fantasy of course. Tom Ewell played the male lead whose wife goes out of town for a period of time, and then, a dreamy, single, sexy blond bombshell moves into the apartment upstairs. Fantasies ran rampant through his head after chatting with her, when she said to him, “When it’s hot like this, you know what I do?  I keep my undies in the icebox.”

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