Ju-on: The Beginning of the End

Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (呪怨, 2014) is the seventh entry in Japan's long-running Ju-on horror franchise — watch it online on iFILM. Director Masayuki Ochiai leads with Nozomi Sasaki and Reina Triendl in what functions as a soft reboot of the original curse's origin.

A primary school teacher realizes one of her students has been absent for a week. She goes to the house. It has been sealed for fourteen years — since something happened there that no one talks about. The curse, it turns out, does not expire.

Ochiai doesn't try to modernize the formula. He strips it back: silence, a locked house, a child, and the specific dread of a space that holds something wrong. For J-horror fans, that's exactly enough. Stream Ju-on: The Beginning of the End online on iFILM.