Michael Ledo Students discuss various urban legends at Seian University, among which are the cursed video tape. Two students accidentally discover the tape and freak out as the previous viewers had died. They consult their professor who is excited about the tape and wants to meet Sadako, the Ring girl with the long hair. Meanwhile is a subplot, a house is haunted by Kayako, the Juon/Grudge double jointed kid.How they get these two demons/spirits to fight would be a plot spoiler revealed at about an hour into the film...and I still have my reservations. Of course my biggest question mark about all these exorcism films going all the way back to the original is the ending. A demon possesses someone and the priest then takes the demon inside himself and does the suicide thing. Demon dies too. Why exactly does a spiritual/metaphysical demon end when the host dies? Right before the priest hits the ground... go back to someone else. It is a distance thing like a six cubit rule? Who is making these silly rules up and why does everyone follow them? The film was not as good as the originals. Jump scares were ineffective. The wise guy exorcist was the highlight of the film and added a smile element to the feature.Guide: No swearing, sex, nudity or cute school uniforms

Paul Magne Haakonsen At first impression, I must say that I was a little bit perplexed about why the world needed a movie that would plot the entity from "Ringu" (aka "The Ring") up against the entity from "Ju-On" (aka "The Grudge"). I am a fan of Asian cinema and love Asian horror, and I have watched the movies from both franchises, but I can't claim that I was ever craving anything even remotely in the likes of these two entities being put up against one another. Unlike the "Freddy vs Jason" movie, for example, which was long waited and had been pitched. But perhaps the Japanese audience have been waiting and longing for a movie that put Sadako up against Kayako.Regardless, given the chance to sit down and watch "Sadako vs. Kayako", I of course did jump at it. This is a Japanese horror movie after all, so it is right up my alley.The movie does start out by raising a good point about the curse of Sadako almost coming to an end as the video (VHS) format is obsolete. That was a nice touch of detail from writers Takashi Shimizu and Kôji Suzuki."Sadako vs Kayako" has some very interesting sound work, and it really helped to build the atmosphere and mood of the movie. There is a lot of atmospheric sounds put into the movie when Sadako and Kayako are on the screen, and also when something creepy is about to happen or actually happening on the screen. I must admit that I was rather impressed with the sound department and the work they mustered in this movie.There are some pretty interesting visuals in the movie as well, and director Kôji Shiraishi really managed to use these visuals so well in the movie to establish scares and atmosphere.As for the acting in the movie, well I can't claim to be familiar with anyone on the cast list, but I will say that the cast ensemble did great jobs with their given roles and characters. And it was nice to see this many new faces in a movie.There was a good pace to the movie, and the dialogue was good and seemed quite natural. And the character development was also good throughout the course of the movie, because it made the characters stand out from one another and not just be generic and pointless characters. Do take into consideration that the character gallery is rather extensive, and there is a lot of people to keep track of, some more important to the story than others, of course. So keep vigilant and attentive to the story, or you might miss something important.While the design and layout of the Kayako house was rather interesting, I think it was a shame that it was kept so dark all the time, because a lot of details were being missed and obscured by the darkness. Sure, it sets mood, but would have been nicer to have had a bit more of proper lighting.Actually a good portion of the movie is filmed in a relatively dark setting. Sure, it adds to the atmosphere, but it becomes annoying after a while, especially because it is so much more nice to actually see everything that is going on clearly in a movie. Especially since you did pay money to watch this.One thing that puzzle me is why there is no consistency from movie to movie as in what you see on Sadako's cursed VHS tape. It keeps changing from movie to movie. That really makes no sense to me.As a seasoned horror veteran, I can't claim to find a Japanese woman in a white dress with her long black hair covering her entire face as being particularly scary. Nor can I claim to find a milky white boy with funky hair who sounds like a cat as being scary either. But hey, they are iconic characters of the two Japanese franchises. I guess you have to be Asian in order to find this particularly scary. And also the thing with long black hair showing up out of nowhere in places it shouldn't or couldn't be is not scary either, it is just downright weird.For an actual showdown between Sadako and Kayako, then you actually have to wait a very, very long time throughout the movie, and that is even before someone just suggests pitching the two evil entities against one another. It is not before the last 15 minutes of the movie that the actual pitching of the two iconic entities take place. And the showdown was not really as satisfying as it should have been, especially since it took almost the entire movie leading up to it."Sadako vs. Kayako" is an entertaining enough movie for what it turned out to be. But I can't really claim to find that this was a movie that was particularly necessary for either of the franchises. This wasn't a scary movie, not even by a long shot. It was an interesting enough ride up to the last 15 minutes, which culminated in a less than satisfactory manner.My rating for "Sadako vs. Kayako" lands on a mediocre 5 out of 10 stars, because this wasn't an outstanding movie in any way, nor was it a particularly necessary movie or a necessary crossover between two franchises.

lorcan-61881 There has not been a year where Ju On or Ring passed by my head,I always watch them and even though,they can still be sickening because I know what's going to happen,but they're my favourite horrors so,eh,ya. I was pretty excited when I heard what started as a silly April's Fool joke was coming to the big screen in cities all over Japan,not here though,no,but that would have been cool if my cinemas thing they do which is this season thing where there's loads of international random movies included Sadako Vs Kayako,I'd be first in line,but anyway,Sadako Vs Kayako follows two girls,who after purchasing a old video player discover that the enigmatic tape inside is the cursed tape from the 90's that many people thought was over,now,the only way to stop it so to face it off against another evil entity as bad as her and chooses Kayako Saeki. Sadako Vs Kayako,when it came out was actually very famous in Japan,they did like,literally lots of adverts for it on TV,but was it all worth it..no. Sadako Vs Kayako like most crossover horror films,is not good,why,well here's why,I hate crossover films because they would be,probably,so hard to make,for instance,say if there was a crossover between Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees,that would not work to me,mostly because each character would need enough attention which you can't in a way do,Freddy Vs Jason was probably the only good crossover,I've ever seen,it had lots of moments including the two,and not just like the final battle,but moving on to 'this',the film did not do that,it felt like out of 100%,Sadako got soooooooooo much screen time and Kayako got literally nothing,well,she did get a pretty cool scene involving a few crazy bullies and a small kid but putting that in,dose not mean you can just move on now,more KAYAKO! I really wish Kayako was in the film more and Toshio,the scenes involving Sadako were actually quite scary as the Kayako scenes were a bit more,eh,silly with her pulling kids into cupboards,the ending to this film was probably the worst part of this film,their are going to be spoilers now so if you don't care stick around but if not,leave,you get it anyway,I did'int like it,anyway,the ending was awful and basically ruined both serieses of Ring and Ju On by making the two one single entity,this was diabolically awful,the director probably thought that this was funny..well guess what you a*shole,it was not,due to this,you actually just killed off all the ideas for Ring and Ju On sequels,even though Ju On kind of ended,it dose not matter,in what would have been years to come,their could have been loads of films but oh no,they decided to make Sayakako,or whatever its called a thing,which will probably become a slapstick horror in the future. Sadako Vs Kayako has ruined all peoples chances for future Ring and Ju On films,so eh,ya,I'm really sorry for people who've just done everything for a pointless film that's gonna make audience's be like..but,this is impossible

Raven-1969 Demons in Japanese culture, may take human form. Or semi-human form if they prefer. One such demon, Kayako, inhabits a house and attacks those who enter it. The demon Sadako curses and appears to those who happen to see her frightening video clip. Two young women, one of whom is cursed by Sadako, figure that the only way to survive is to pit the two demons against each other. A spectral showdown ensues.While it is a creative concept and it is an intriguing glimpse at Japanese horror culture, there is not much depth here. There are few twists and even less in terms of dialogue. For a foreign horror film, I expected more shocking behavior, yet it seems to be made for a PG-13 crowd. Little bawdiness and less blood spilled. Seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.