Have you ever seen Ju-On? Or Ju-On 2? I have to say that the Americans did the first one MUCH better. (sad isn't it...)
I saw the first one, because it was the original and usually the originals are always better...but I enjoyed the American version a lot more. At risk of sounding shallow, the Japanese version just looked cheap, and I got bored about halfway in it.
Then again, I was fourteen, so... Maybe if I saw it again, I'd think differently of it.