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In-your-face scares for origin story
Netflix's new Ju-On series is grounded in real events that took place in 1980s Japan
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Yuina Kuroshima
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Alison de Souza In Los Angeles, Alison de Souza
The Ju-On and Grudge films - about a deadly curse that begins in a house in Tokyo and eventually spreads all the way to the United States - are finally getting a proper origin story.
And it might be even more terrifying than the movies because it is more realistic, referencing real-life disasters and murders that have happened in Japan.
