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Plot: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
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MCT:August 19, 2008One of the very best horror movies to come out in ages. A japanese man kills his wife and the a bad spiritual imprint was left on the house.The movie was entertainin enough, very much in a "The Ring" vein. Creepy lady with long greasy black hair, moving very slowly towards you. I get it.
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MCT:July 1, 2008Synopsis (taken from Rotten Tomatoes)
In Sam Raimi and Columbia Pictures' powerful thriller The Grudge, based on the Japanese blockbuster JU-ON: THE GRUDGE, the normal façade of a modest house in Tokyo belies the hidden terror within. It is possessed by a violent plague that destroys the lives of everyone who enters. Known as "The Grudge," this curse causes its victims to die in the grip of a powerful rage. Those who are fatally afflicted by the curse die and a new curse is born - passed like a virus to all those who enter the house in an endless, growing chain of horror. Karen (SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR) is an exchange student studying social work in Japan who innocently agrees to cover for a nurse who didn't show up for work. When she enters the assigned home, she discovers an elderly American woman, Emma (GRACE ZABRISKIE), who is lost in a catatonic state while the rest of the house appears deserted and disheveled. As she is tending to the stricken old woman, Karen hears scratching sounds from upstairs. When she investigates, she is faced with a supernatural horror more frightening than she could ever imagine. Within this house, a chain of terror has been set in motion resulting from a terrifying evil that was born years before. As more people die, Karen is pulled into the cycle of horror and learns the secret of the vengeful curse that has taken root in this house. Now she must stop it before it's too late. Sam Raimi and Columbia Pictures Present A Ghost House Pictures Production The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland with Clea DuVall and Bill Pullman. The film is directed by Takashi Shimizu from a screenplay by Stephen Susco based on JU-ON: The Grudge, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise. The executive producers are Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Carsten Lorenz, Roy Lee and Doug Davison. The director of photography is Hideo Yamamoto. The production designer is Iwao Saito. The editor is Jeff Betancourt. The music is by Christopher Young. -
MCT:August 26, 2007
Standard film, mediocre, nothing further, worth one watch or two.
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MCT:August 4, 2007I really didn't like this one and usually I like this kinda stuff
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MCT:June 13, 2007
This movie pales next to the supreme Japanese version, but it's still damn freaky.
I do not quite understand the Ju-On curse. The plot did not detail all the rules of re-appearance for the ghosts. Why did the victims become evil spirits? They had no rage; a requirement for coming back.
The story in "The Grudge" was told non-linear style, which you could mentally re-arrange into one timeline after all parts have been shown.
The US version, I'm not sure why they chose to set it in Japan again; it would've been interesting to see the setting be translated to a condo or suburb in North America. Surely the writers could've come up with a scene of domestic violence in the United States which could've led to the same sort of haunting. The Japanese mythology could've been easily re-worked into an American Urban Legend. The isolation of the Americans in Japanese culture felt like a visit back to "Lost in Translation". I suppose residents living in a foreign city makes the horror situation more hopeless and atmospheric.
The characters were more distinct in the Buffy-fied version, but sadly they were not very sympathetic; we hardly got to know some of them. Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen character the filmmakers did not develop enough for me to really care for; she was simply another intruder in the haunted house. It didn't make much sense that she didn't try to save her boyfriend when he was being "mounted" by the wicked ghost woman. The plot did not disclose the secret of the lead character Karen's survival of various ghost attacks, when everybody else - even those who merely called the house - suffered the worst.
Is the movie scary? There were a lot of "boo!" moments which made me jump. The sound editing was effective, with the croaking woman-ghost and the screeching boy-ghost when you don't expect them. The scary hand in the shower was shown on all the TV ads, and didn't amount to anything more.
Ju-On had some nifty things, which I hoped would be brought over to The Grudge. Missing were the cool scenes with the warped television news broadcast, the bulletin board of missing persons posters, the room full of cats, the woman coming out of the girl's body, the washroom stall scare, the schoolgirl slaughter, the consumption of the security guard, the boy under the table at the restaurant, the hovering non-CGI blackness over the mother, the raccoon-eyed schoolgirl photos, the fingers protecting the eyes, the corpse at the ending, the zombiefied man walking down the stairs and the phone-call from the ghost-cat. Perhaps the filmmakers have saving some of these scenes for "The Grudge 2" (Note: Yes they did!)
Final Note: the Theatrical version of "The Grudge" is a weak movie and waste of time. The special direct-to-DVD Director's Cut is a very different movie, which includes flashbacks to the original murders which started the curse. There is a lot more violence and spooky scenes in the Director's Cut, so I'll only recommend that one. -
MCT:December 3, 2008
whose bright idea was it to make this piece of decroded crap..... ooooh hair growing out of the corner or the wall, real scary.
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LadyChikaruposted 94 days ago -
It is very scary movie i coudnt sleep untle one month in the darkness
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this is the stupid american version stop copying the japanses theres is 10 times more scarier
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it was good it was just the sounds she made going to the stairs sounded like she was catching a stomach virus or something...
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I H8 THIS VERSION OF THE GRUDGE americans are gettin easy money and the japanese versions alot scarier ad much much better
posted 500 days ago -
This movie ROCKS!I love it n i cnt wait 2 c number 2.My mates kirsty,sanjay,laura and stefan all came round my house to see it and we crapped ourselves.
posted 537 days ago
