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The Grudge

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I loved this movie. I will definitely watch it again!

This is a Japanese movie, with a Japanese director made with American Actors. The story is nonlinear which is a great departure from the types of movies north americans watch. The nonlinear style is delightfully disorienting and breathlessly confusing. It is often easy to forget that storytelling in different cultures may vary. Japanese stories tend to unfold in a different manner than american/european.

A home is cursed caused by a tragedy from years ago. The height of emotion during the tragedy infects the home like a disease. The emotion flails unrelentlessly, it's powerful and touches every person who is subsequently in this home. The anger is a confused one twisting one way and then another. It doesn't think, plan, analyse it just does, it just exists.

This movie, is icy, chilling and disorienting in the most fabulous way. I commend Sarah Michel Geller and Ted Raimi for choosing such an intriguing movie and daring to do something "different" from the normal hollywood claptrap.

I notice that others don't review this movie highly. This film is for the film buff in search of something different and new. If you prefer the usual hollywood treatment I wouldn't recommend itto you

my friend and i watched the grudge on DVD,and neither one of us was
impressed.it was basically a one note movie.i won't go into any further
details here.but,basically,whole premise is hard to believe,because
once the ghost shows itself,it is not remotely scary,forget about
terrifying.the acting was not convincing in the least.i did however
like the dark atmosphere of the film, which gave it a sense of
foreboding...for all of five minutes,after which the novelty wears
off.there are two things which are absolutely terrifying about the
whole thing.the first is that i will never get back the minutes of my
life spent watching this movie.the second is that someone thought it
merited a sequel.(Though i will watch the sequel,on the off chance it
is a better movie)as for the grudge itself---beige i.e bland and
dull.pointless 1.3*/5 for the 5 minutes of atmosphere.

The idea of a horror movie being so dull that it put me to sleep, and a restful sleep at that, really surprised me, as I like a lot of different film genres including horror and the variety of horror styles. I will try not to repeat what others have said, but essentially I expected better. If you like The Ring you will love The Grudge? What a lie. I did like The Ring, but I don't care much at all for The Grudge. If I was to give The Ring 4 or 5 stars, I could honestly give The Grudge not much more than 1 star.

A complete viewing of The Grudge later, did convey to me the basic concept and the essentials of the plot which were intriguing enough. I was left thinking what a great concept was in this movie, yet it was portrayed so lifelessly. The scares... Weren't.

Gellar's acting has been better. Pullman's wasn't so bad, but seemed merely workman-like. I think it did so well in the first week or so of initial release to theatres simply because the commercials and trailers were better than the movie they promoted. I do believe that I would likely appreciate much better the original(s) that The Grudge was based on.

This movie wasn't bad. I had scary moments. But overall it made no sense. It's like the girl from the Ring gets up, walks around, scares people, the end. No real reason for killing people, no method, no back story, hardly a front story really. It's over and you're thinking "Why did any of this happen?" Also it seems they ran out of money as the movie ends in the space of about 5 minutes.

This was a pretty cheesy movie. It was hard to follow, the acting was wooden, and I really didn't get the ending. Having said that, I was awake for at least two nights thinking about that woman standing in the stairwell without her jaw. And the sound she made coming down the stairs in the office tower.
So, if you figure that you sleep too much, please buy this movie. If you value a good night's sleep, buy Eyes Wide Shut instead b/c you'll fall unconscious after two minutes.

It may be just that I hadn't seen a movie in a theatre in awhile. It might have been that I already had seen "The Ring". Or it may just be that I have seen too many 'scary' movies filled with blood and gore, and come to expect it when I watch a horror movie. But I thought 'The Grudge' was a big yawn, and was EXTREMELY disappointed. There was not a moment in this movie that I was truly scared, as I found most of the scenes with the 'big' scare to be set up in such a way, they were never unexpected. In fact I sat in the theatre and counted down 5-4-3-2-1 to each 'scare'. Also I am a huge SMG fan, having seen every epsiode of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', but she was wooden in this movie. And don't get me started on the abrupt and contrived ending. I left the theatre thinking "So what really happened?" Save your time and money, watch 'The Ring' instead. I did give 'The Grudge' two stars, because it did keep me awake.
P.S. What was UP with the frog kid with the large eyes anyway?

At first i have to admit that i did not expect something special from this movie ,but let me tell you this is one of the greatest horror movies of this decade, every second you will jumping out of your seat in panic. i can also say that you probably should not see this movie by yourself !!! This movie is brilliantly put together for the altimate scare, you will never sleep the same again !

i found this flick to be scary but very hard to follow, and not only that but it was like a bunch of scary ghost clips strung together. Over all not to bad.

This movie scared me sooo bad! This was so great! Me and my friends were frightened for days, they still hate the noise from the movie! I can't wait for the sequel!

what a great movie it scared me to death and i dont get scared very easy either does my mom and when we went to this she was so scarried she almost peed her pants becuase it was so disturbign if your a big horror fan this is a must for your collection i cant wait to see the grudge 2.