First of all, I want to state that I watch this in 2019. Literally 12 years after the release (and probably the making) of this film, which is more than a decade ago. I must say that this movie exceeds my expectations.
The jump scares are all predictable, yes, because I watch this in a gap of 12 years, where I already consume way too much horror movies to be scared by jump scares in 2007. If I were to watch this in 2007, it might be scary. This is not the best 'old' horror movie I've watched and as long as I remember, but it serves good plot although it's just a cliché type of revenge story with sad/tragic past of the ghost. I've seen countless horror movies (especially Asian) with that kind of typical plot and past story of the ghost, which is the thing that I still quite like even though there's too many same type of background story everywhere. But it's still good, at least, it's clear enough for us why the ghost is there in the first place. And that simple and overused explanation still quite satisfy us. Unlike some recent modern ghost stories (mostly Western) that involve devils too much to the point we just know that devil is around, and the exact reason why devil is evil is because they were created to be evil. The end.
That's what attract me the most from Asian horror movies. They do not give us as wonderful photogenic places nor audio effect as those western movies but they always seem to have the right plot in the right place.
The jump scares are all predictable, yes, because I watch this in a gap of 12 years, where I already consume way too much horror movies to be scared by jump scares in 2007. If I were to watch this in 2007, it might be scary. This is not the best 'old' horror movie I've watched and as long as I remember, but it serves good plot although it's just a cliché type of revenge story with sad/tragic past of the ghost. I've seen countless horror movies (especially Asian) with that kind of typical plot and past story of the ghost, which is the thing that I still quite like even though there's too many same type of background story everywhere. But it's still good, at least, it's clear enough for us why the ghost is there in the first place. And that simple and overused explanation still quite satisfy us. Unlike some recent modern ghost stories (mostly Western) that involve devils too much to the point we just know that devil is around, and the exact reason why devil is evil is because they were created to be evil. The end.
That's what attract me the most from Asian horror movies. They do not give us as wonderful photogenic places nor audio effect as those western movies but they always seem to have the right plot in the right place.