The normal fa?ade 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 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, 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.
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Grudge, The Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as an American student in Tokyo who comes into contact with a terrible haunting. US remake of Takashi Shimizu's Japanese horror
A unique hybrid of Japanese and American sensibilities, The Grudge is director Takashi Shimizu's umpteenth return to a scenario he created for a student film. There's something almost Zen about the fact that Shimizu made the original video version (2000), then made a semi-sequel that repeated whole chunks, then remade it again as a theatrical feature in 2003 - which also got the sequel treatment. It's boggling to think how he must feel about making it yet again, but with a screenplay written by an American (S...
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I had heard good things about this movie, but I found myself totally disappointed. The movie is scary in places, but this is simple quick shocks, rather than something which give you nightmares. The characters are, at best, 2 dimensional, tired and cliched. The story is fairly weak, no twists or turns in plot, just a convoluted method for revealing what has already happened. On the plus side the disc is shiny and you may well be able to use it to put on your makeup/rearrange your toupe.
Pop culture will eat itself. It's amazing how quickly the Japanese supernatural horror genre - which underwent a renaissance following the 1998 release of Ring - became self-referential, its motifs consolidated and reused over and over. Just think - the long-haired girl, the figure with unnaturally jointed limbs (reminiscent of The Exorcist), the figure with all-black eyes, the shadowy cupboard, distorted images on TVs or monitors. They're all present and correct in Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge.
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