Weird coincidence: one of those students (Aimi Satsukawa) needs to transfer her parents’ VHS tape to DVD and gets her friend (Mizuki Yamamoto) to help. The flick kicks off with two college students attending a lecture about urban legends where the geeky professor (Masahiro Komoto) gushes about how desperately he wants to get his hands on that Ringu VHS tape. Kayako are very much aware of the absurdity of the concept and have made a delightful romp pitched halfway between parody and homage, dripping with fan service. Given that both Japanese horror franchises were initially rooted in quietly creepy atmospherics over bloody spectacle, it might seem odd to imagine the two icons fighting. In case you don’t know these greasy haired spirits by name, Sadako is that VHS vengeance ghost from The Ring while Kayako is the crackly voiced crawler from The Grudge. Much like a certain hockey masked mama’s boy and the most famous resident of Elm Street, the former titans of J-horror have teamed up for a comeback with what can only be described as a ghostly grudge match (apologies for the pun).
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