Ju-On: White Ghost

Ju-On: White Ghost (2009) is a Japanese horror film you can watch online on iFILM. The latest entry in the long-running Ju-On franchise opens with a law student who fails his bar exam and, urged on by a whispering voice on a cassette tape, slaughters his whole family before hanging himself in the woods.

From that one act the curse spreads outward. A little girl in a yellow rain hat, a grey-haired old woman in white, a recorder that captured a stranger's final breaths — director Ryuta Miyake ties the fragments into a single nightmare told out of order. At just sixty-one minutes it wastes no time, and the dread comes from silence and from whatever flickers at the edge of the frame rather than from gore. Fans of Ringu and the original Ju-On will feel right at home with its cold, patient scares. Stream Ju-On: White Ghost (2009) online on iFILM.