You might eat your socks; it’s up to you.

Let me know what you find out about the soundtrack.”)

I will have to catch the original, even if it has subtitles. Most of these films are visual,sound to be scary anyway.

“Ringu” is popular and a strong following. It’s a little bit more fantasy,though. Don’t you think?

If you are/were a fan of Ringu, I think you’d enjoy it.

One of the creepiest sequences in the original took place on an elevator, and featured an entity whose bare feet floated above the floor. That sequence appears to have made the jump to the new film.

The effects budget for Jian Gui was, of course, smaller than the budget for this film. Even so, the sequence with the wall that changes while the protagonist watches in this trailer does not look as compelling as the same sequence from the original. I would say that Jian Gui is lit with a different tone than this remake – sometimes warm, sometimes cold, but never as harshly as some of the sequences in this trailer. Jian Gui seems to be shot with the knowledge that the scariest things lurk in the dark, and so the film keeps to the shadows.

Where it will be interesting to note differences is in the large-scale “mystery” the protagonist is trying to solve (It involves the dark figure in the hospital hallway, so the storyline is obviously present in the film) and how Hollywood will address the cultural differences between the two audiences.

Specifically, Jian Gui took a very credulous tack with the protagonist’s visions – other characters seemed a bit too quick to believe her. The spectres in Jian Gui match elements of traditional spiritualism from Chinese mythology. I expect the visions in this film will conform to western traditions.

You saw “Jian Gui.” What did you think of the flick?

It’d be interesting to compare the two.