The American movie version played a big part in my childhood and to this day I will sometimes get really creeped out remembering certain scenes from the movie and will sleep with the lights on. 

I was really excited to read where it all began and I think it’s extremely fascinating to see how this could have influenced some of the J-horror that followed. I will admit that I didn’t find this as scary as I was hoping, even though there were some creepy feeling scenes, overall any terror I felt was amplified by remembering movie scenes if anything. I would say this is more mystery, thriller than horror. 

I liked how easy it was to get into the story and even when it felt like things may start to drag a little something immediately came up to move everything along. Although I was not the biggest fan of the two main characters, I thought that everyone else was fairly interesting to read about. At times did feel like things came up a little too conveniently, but these were things I could overlook. I know any little thing that might not have done it for me could probably be due to this being a translated work. 

TLDR: I had fun! I’m excited to revisit the movies and I have already ordered the sequel to this book.