Do you think Japanese Horror movies are better concieved than American horror movies?

I just wonder why so many american horror movies these days are remakes of Japanese movies. Are american writters just out of unique ideas?Do you think Japanese Horror movies are better concieved than American horror movies?they have awsome plots but cheesy acting so if they could write the stories and gore and we could do the production of it we might have a great horror movie to see for a changeDo you think Japanese Horror movies are better concieved than American horror movies?I think they are heaps better, and alot more scarier.Do you think Japanese Horror movies are better concieved than American horror movies?A lot of the horror conventions of Western culture are played out. I mean, how many times have we seen flicks about mummies, vampires, werewolves, and masked psycho killers? A large part of the appeal of the Japanese (and Thai) horror films is that they come from different cultural underpinnings than most Westerners are used to, and so they scare us in new ways. The differences between American and Japanese ghosts, for instance, are pretty marked. Your American ghost is either all up in your face, screaming and putting up a racket, or is lurking about mournfully in hopes that someone will help it to its final rest. Japanese ghosts tend to be forces of nature that reek of inexplicable malevolence and that can't really be reasoned with or understood--there's not really any logical thing you can do to put them away. They simply are.Do you think Japanese Horror movies are better concieved than American horror movies?
I think, that even though they are usually seen with subtitles on they are fantastic! They are more unique, with stuff that american writers would never dare to even think.

The ideas that they come up with seem like they come from such a dark place that it has to be written.



I don't know maybe I am just weird, but I always tend to get a little creeped when I watch them, and I love it.