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The Grudge [UMD for PSP]
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It's not the scary hit that The Ring was in 2002, but The Grudge makes a similarly convincing case for American remakes of popular Japanese horror films. Barely a year passed between the release of Takashi Shimizu's creepy ghost story Ju-On: The Grudge and the production of this American remake, set in Tokyo and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in her first post-Buffy horror film. About the only significant difference between the two films is the importing of a mostly-American cast (including Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall and Grace Zabriskie), but The Grudge was reconfigured (by screenwriter Stephen Susco) to allow Shimizu to refine and improve the spookiest highlights of his earlier version, which enjoyed previous incarnations as a short film and two made-for-Japanese-video features. Surprising box-office analysts with a $40 million opening weekend, The Grudge may disappoint hard-core horror fans because it lacks gore and graphic violence, but as a creepy tale about a very haunted house, it's guaranteed to send a few chills up your spine. --Jeff Shannon
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"The Grudge" vs. "The Ring"   Review Date: October 23, 2004 Reviewer: , There are many different kinds of scary movies. There are the teenage flicks, like "Freddy vs. Jason" that are all gore and seem to be ongoing metaphors that sex and drugs are bad. Meanwhile, there are the 'adult' mature scary movies, like "The Ring" and "The Grudge". In my opinion, "The Ring" was not scary. The only startling parts were, as a previous reviewer said, the closet scene and the very end. "The Ring" is very suspensful, I'll give it that, but it still left me wondering... "The Grudge" on the other hand, which I saw last night (opening night) was DARN scary. I went to see it with my friend and we both brought our teddy bears as a joke. Well, we did end up clutching those teddy bears throughout the movie. In the theatre, people jumped, screamed, cried, and laughed. The laughter was nervous laughter, the laughter of people that have seen the trailer and know that, for example, that a hand is going to come out of SMG's head in the shower scene. Before seeing the movie, I had watched the trailer several times, and got scared just watching that. The movie has so many creepy scenes. It may not be rated R, but that doesn't mean it's not worth the money. My friend Lynn covered her eyes whenever the "scary" music started to play and missed half of the movie. I had to explain everything to her afterwards. I was pleased with how the movie wrapped up--I understood how the curse started. It was easy to wrap my 15-year old head around the concept. One of my favorite scenes in the movie was the part where the horrid creature/ghost is stalking the woman Susan (I think her name was Susan). The noise made by the creature is un-nerving and makes me shiver now. I won't give anything away...but the ending is superb. Not quite as suspensful as "The Ring" ending, but still good. There were SO many scary scenes in "The Grudge" that it made up for it. In the long run, "The Grudge" is a great movie to see with a friend or a boyfriend/girlfriend. SMG does a great job as Karen and all Buffy fans (such as me) will love seeing her on the big screen in a movie that is not goofy like "Scooby Doo". One word: "Terrifying"   Review Date: October 29, 2004 Reviewer: C. Floyd, Mission Viejo, CA USA ANYONE who gave this less than "5" stars relative to "scare rating" is out of their mind and probably lying. ANYONE who states that this movie didn't scare them or was "funny" at times........was actually hiding in their seat the entire time. They're the kind of people that try to act brave/tough, but are actually a little sissy. I am a true horror fan and I jumped probably 5 times in this movie and actually covered my eyes in one scene......it's the "Exorcist" of ghost movies. By the way, besides the last scene of "The Ring", I didn't really find it scary at all - it was actually a little boring. THIS MOVIE has NOTHING to do with "The Ring" at all - I've heard some compare them, but IT IS JUST NOT SO..........I would HIGHLY recommend using caution taking yourself to see this, especially anyone under 18. The Director's Cut is GREAT!   Review Date: February 23, 2006 Reviewer: R. Hasselbaum, Boston, MA I caught the theatrical release of this film on HBO and loved it! Definitely a must-see for any fan of Asian-style horror, creepy atmospherics, and nightmare imagery. What really surprised me, though, was how much BETTER the Director's Cut is. The ending in this version is absolutely terrifying and macabre, much more so than the PG-13 release, and easily on par with the chilling climax of "The Ring". (It's not surprising they had to tone it down for the MPAA.) If you saw this in the theater and liked it, you have to check out this version. completely satisfying   Review Date: October 16, 2006 Reviewer: B. E Jackson, Pennsylvania WOW. That's the only thing I can say after reading all sorts of negative reviews. I admit, the very first time I watched the Grudge with my father NEITHER of us thought the movie was scary at all and couldn't understand its success, but after watching the movie a second time two months later by myself late at night I REALLY began to see how frightening the movie is. Probably contains the same amount of fear as the original Exorcist, another movie that's really effectively well done. You HAVE to watch the Exorcist and the Grudge at night to get the proper effect. The Grudge benefits greatly when it comes to maintaining a moody atmosphere and a pretty interesting story. I say "pretty interesting" because the storyline isn't the best, or the easiest to understand. Just interesting enough to get the job done. The Grudge also benefits when it comes to not giving away too much or too little. In fact, this is probably its strongest point. Every time something scary happens, you see just a "little bit" of that scary monster boy or some kind of strange shadow effect, which is *very* important if you want to effectively scare someone. If the scary boy had appeared on screen for longer than a few seconds it wouldn't have scared me nearly as much because I would have gotten used to seeing it. The boy appears, and then he's gone. Not giving away too much REALLY works with this movie. You see, to really scare me you simply CAN'T put a scary monster on screen for long periods of time and you HAVE to create a moody atmosphere to make the film believable. The Grudge works *extremely* well it this area. The fact that something scary happens almost always unexpectedly in the Grudge allows me to give the film another compliment. I'm telling you, the scene with the woman inside that building by herself (well, except for a security guard) and having to travel home to an apartment building all by herself is about 10 minutes of total bone-chilling excitement. I *loved* this scene. I was totally on the edge of my seat wondering when the woman was finally going to have something bad happen to her. The scene where the woman saw darkness coming before walking down the stairs and having to hurry up to get out of there was *awesome*, and the scene a few moments after this happened where she DID see something in the shadow was ANOTHER awesome display of bone-chilling brilliance. There's a bunch of scenes like this throughout the movie. Freakin' AWESOME! Excellent pacing and suspense makes the Grudge a true horror classic, in my opinion. I've seen a thousand horror movies in my time and I'd easily put the Grudge right up there as one of the best. People today have drastically different opinions when it comes to what makes a movie scary. Remember the good old days when everyone could agree that the Exorcist was the scariest movie of all-time? I wish everyone agreed that the Grudge is a total classic, and that the Ring is another excellent one. The Grudge   Review Date: February 12, 2005 Reviewer: J. Armour, Many have given "The Grudge" a very unjust rating, most likely because it isn't the typical American mindless gore that we have seen in so many horror films of both the past (Friday the 13th?) and present (Seed of Chucky?). While those films cirtainly have appeal to many fans of the genre, they hardly require your strict attention to follow the plot. "The Grudge" is different in that it doesn't use gore, or even violence (for the most part) to accomplish the scare. Instead it uses long approaches into scenes in which the audience can anticipate the outcome but is still startled and surprised when it actually happens. The ending to the movie has been one of its most criticized points, but it is very much in sticking to Japanese tradition where man is not the stronger than the spirit world surrounding him, and with many of the other modern horror flicks. Overall I am not a fan of the horror genre - usually finding them more funny in their rediculousness than scary, but I can say that this is one of the very few movies that have actually scared me. To me that is all it takes to be a good horror movie. I enthusiastically recomend it and agree with one of the other reviewers here - it is better to watch it once, then watch all of the special features - including the cast & crew commentary - and then watch it again to pick up on all the things you missed the first time. The only bad comment I might have is that noone ever really fought for their life, and I doubt many of the characters would have been so ,literally, scared stiff.

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