After “King Kong vs. Godzilla”, “Freddy vs. Jason” and two “Alien vs. Predator” films, we now get “Sadako vs. Kayako”. This movie pits the ghostly creature from the “Ringu” franchise against the evil spirit from the “Ju-On” series. It’s not a terrible film but it feels very repetitive if you have ever seen any of the films from either franchise and as a versus movie it disappoints.

Two girls watch a cursed videotape and are destined to die by the hand of Sadako. Meanwhile, another girl moves next to a haunted house and soon discovers that she has been marked for death by Kayako. The only chance the girls have of survival is to have Sadako and Kayako battle one another until the bitter end.

Sadako and Kayako are perhaps just too similar for this type of movie to work. They are both Japanese females with long dark hair in white dresses with pale skin. People that are not very familiar with the two franchises could be forgiven for getting the two mixed up. The fight between the creatures is very underwhelming, although I am not exactly sure what I expected. The other characters in the movie are rather bland but they are not awful.

There are lots of scenes that just feel like repeats of “Ringu” and “Ju-On: The Grudge”. There is no real tension because we know what is going to happen, we know Kayako is going to crawl down the stairs and we know Sadako is going to crawl out of the television. The final fight is very anti-climactic so those looking for an exciting duel between Japan’s two most famous horror movie monsters are going to be let down. Devout fans of the “Ringu” and “Ju-On” franchises will possibly like it but I imagine that most people will want to skip it.