'Ju-On' prequel continues to traumatise viewers

Even ghost needs to get a good washing every now and then. Photo: Handout

The Ju-On and Grudge films – about a deadly curse that begins in a house in Tokyo and eventually spreads all the way to the United States – are finally getting a proper origin story.

And it might be even more terrifying than the movies because it is more realistic, referencing real-life disasters and murders that have happened in Japan.