If you loved Thriller Restaurant, try Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Thriller Restaurant

2010 · dir. Masayuki Ochiai

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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

2014 · dir. Masayuki Ochiai

What they share

Both films are directed by Masayuki Ochiai, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Thriller Restaurant, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

dread

What Ju-on: The Beginning of the End is

August heat shimmers off a locked front gate. A teacher knocks twice, calls through the glass. No answer, only the scrape of footsteps—too many for one child—ascending upstairs. Mamoru Oshii’s haunted-house roots stalk this hallway first.

If you loved Thriller Restaurant, try Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

Thriller Restaurant

Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

What they share

What Ju-on: The Beginning of the End is

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