The Grudge
Very scary and creepy, but very similar toThe Ring. In most aspects,The Ringis a better movie.
Did n’t I already see this motion-picture show two years ago , and was n’t it calledThe Ring ? And was n’t the female lead a much good actress ? Okay , cede , there are quite a few differences betweenThe Ringand this one , but at least to me , they seemed only trivial . InThe Ring , regretful things find when people see a certain VHS tape measure ; inThe Grudge , bad things encounter when people set foot inside a sure household . The Ringwas base on the Japanese filmRingu;The Grudgewas based on the Japanese filmJu - On : The Grudge(tap the link for a review).The Ringhas a headstrong distaff lead who manage to rest animated while everyone else choke ; ditto mark forThe Grudge . About the only obvious difference is thatThe Ringwas set in the state of Washington , whileThe Grudgeis set in Tokyo , Japan . ( If you believe all the TV shows and movies , Tokyo is the only city in Japan . That ’s unfortunate , considering that Tokyo ranked # 1 in a recent sketch of the world ’s most expensive places to live . )
The film opens with graphics that explicate the assumption behind what " The Grudge " is . When someone dies in the clutches of a hefty furor , a whammy is born . All those who encounter this curse are killed and the swearing is converted , excrete on from victim to victim in an eternal chain of revulsion , blah blah , whatever … ( I ’m pretty sure I did n’t quote that verbatim . ) After that , the first few minutes are call , but thing go moderately downhill from there . ( Come to retrieve of it , even the terribleSwordfishhad an fantabulous opening sequence . ) Before the opening credits have finished roll , two disturbing things have happen to grab our aid : Professor Peter Kirk ( played by Bill Pullman ) kills himself by jumping off his flat balcony in front of his wife , and in another part of township , an invalid ’s help mention Yoko ( played by Yoko Maki ) goes up into the attic to find out what ’s making all those unknown noise . She find out , all powerful … more on that later .
Sarah Michelle Gellar play Karen , who moved to Japan to be with her boyfriend Doug , who is going to cultivate there . As part of her study , she is a Tennessean at the school ’s Care Center . The someone assigned to an aged woman ’s house did n’t show up , so Karen ’s boss Alex ( played by Ted Raimi ) sends her over there to substitute until he figures out what happened to Yoko ( yep , the same Yoko from the previous paragraph ) . Almost as soon as Karen sets foot in the house , she knows something is not correct . Just one example : she open a tapdance - up closet to find a new Nipponese male child and a khat . Since the woman who live in the house is American and all her kids are grown adult , Karen suspects that the male child and the cat might not belong in that house . ( unspoilt guess . ) She immediately visit Alex and tells him they may have a child insult case on their hand , but before Karen can care about anything else , a apparitional figure comes down from the ceiling and starts paying extra extra tending to Emma , the senior invalid . By the time Alex shows up , Emma is dead and Karen is sitting in the corner of the way calculate carapace - shocked . The pig show up , and they witness even more fun surprises in the attic . I must say , one of the biggest horror - movie clichés is that the bad guys / evil forces / whatever never seem to bother the cop when they ’re investigating . This picture show is a small unlike in that wish .
After a short stay in the infirmary , Karen decides to do some enquiry to see if she can visualise out what the heck happened in that house – and why . She notice that the previous occupants of the planetary house died quite violently , effectively creating a curse on that business firm that lapse to anyone who sets metrical foot in it . She also discovers a contact between that family and Professor Peter Kirk , who killed himself at the origin of the movie . She now has to figure out how to rid herself of the hex ( which is starting to catch up to her in some very non - subtle ways ) , as well as protecting other people from picking up the curse themselves . ( Example : Wanna reckon whether her idiot boyfriend decides to chitchat the house on his own ? ) Does she bring through the solar day and still pass all her classes without breaking a nail ? Does she kill the vampiresandhelp Shaggy and Scooby capture the hotel proprietor who is line up up as a monster ? Does she know what you did last summertime ? So many questions …
What queer me most about this movie was how some of the plot of ground points were bizarre and/or downright confusing . The short boy who is key by Karen mew like a hombre . Why ? What ’s the meaning of that ? We never find out . Some the great unwashed who are kill by " The Grudge " ™ die fairly peacefully ; others meet with macabre dying . Some people ’s stagnant dead body are left behind to be found ; others just go away and are never found . What set how someone dies and whether the all in body will be break ? We never find out . And the list goes on … I wo n’t give away any crucial plot stop , but the scene where Alex finds out what happened to Yoko was really shocking . I was surprised that a movie could show something like that and still get away with a PG-13 rating . Times have changed , I guess …
I should point out that the movie ’s timeline jumps around ; there is quite a bit of backstory that is revealed in the middle of the movie before summarize the real storyline . I did n’t find it confusing or out of seat ; it was just unlike . This picture ’s big weak touch was Sarah Michelle Gellar . She just did n’t seem right for the role . She has a " cervid in the headlight " calculate that make it obvious that she ’s trying to act , as fight down to course gibe into the role . For an Emmy winner , she ’s really not that good of an actress . She has the whole angst thing down pretty well , but echt emotion seems out of reach for her . Naomi Watts ' performance inThe Ringwas much better . away from Gellar ’s weak carrying out and Jason Behr ’s basically wasted function as Doug , the acting performances were quite serious . I was pleasantly surprised to see William Mapother fiddle a unclouded - cut expert cat for a change .
So overall , do I advocate this movie ? That calculate on a few things . First , if you do n’t care scary and/or creepy moving picture , steer clear of this one ( obviously ) . If you have small shaver , do n’t let them see this ( or anything exchangeable ) . The great job , though , is that it seems like a rive - off ofThe Ring , which is why I could n’t rate the movie strictly on its own merits . the great unwashed who have already seenThe Ringare likely to leave the theater feeling unsatisfied . Writer / director Takashi Shimizu ( who also compose and orchestrate the original ) does a decent job of setting the mood of the motion picture and ( to a lesser extent ) developing the storyline , but to be so standardized to a motion-picture show that come up out only two years ago … it ’s a tough obstacle to overcome . Still , it ’s obvious that most American moviegoers do n’t agree with me , becauseThe Grudgehas made $ 100 million so far ( and count ) in comparing to an figure $ 10 million budget . In today ’s climate , those numbers practically scream for a sequel to be made . With a sequel toThe Ringscheduled for release next saltation , it looks like we may have another " endless range " of horror in the theater .
The Grudge is a 2004 remake of the popular Nipponese horror film Ju - On : The Grudge . The film stars Sarah Michelle Gellar , Jason Behr , and Clea DuVall . The Grudge follows Gellar ’s character , a nursemaid in Tokyo who becomes dupe to a deadly supernatural curse . The movie was directed by The Grudge Godhead Takashi Shimizu .
The Grudge is a 2004 remake of the popular Japanese horror film Ju-On: The Grudge. The film stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, and Clea DuVall. The Grudge follows Gellar’s character, a nurse in Tokyo who becomes victim to a deadly supernatural curse. The movie was directed by The Grudge creator Takashi Shimizu.
