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This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu's popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When ... read more read more...Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit, comes across a mysterious curse, she quickly finds herself embroiled in a fight for her own sanity, and, ultimately, her very survival. Known as a "grudge," the curse was born inside of a house after its inhabitants died while consumed by rage -- according to legend, the curse touches all who come into contact with it, and will torment those unlucky individuals until they, too, become part of the grudge . Each time the curse finds a new victim, it is, in a sense, reborn, and will continue on its path unless Karen can free herself from its control over her. This version of The Grudge is also directed by Shimizu, and features Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Kadee Strickland, William Mapother, and Bill Pullman in supporting roles. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Takashi Shimizu, Sam Raimi, Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall, Grace Zabriskie, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland, Rosa Blasi, Ryo Ishibashi, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Takako Fuji, Ted Raimi, William Mapother, William R. Mapother, Yoko Maki, Yuya Ozeki

Release Date: October 22, 2004

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DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005

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  • aquateen2
    November 27, 2011
    aquateen2
    If you want to see an American horror remake that actually is scary, watch Gore Verbinski's The Ring. A horror film should not be boring. It's not often I find myself watching a horror film and not getting any thrills or scares out of it. The Grudge is a big example of one of the... read more times when this does happen. I lost my patience with it due to the lack of real scares despite its intiguing premise and interesting demonic imagery.
  • fb729949618
    September 24, 2011
    fb729949618
    Okay, but it bites alot off of The Ring.
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    August 18, 2011
    TheDudeLebowski65
    If a bag of garbage was a film, then The Grudge remake would be it. What this remake is a pure crap fest from beginning to end, a film that relies on cheap scares to create its tension, and signs of old school atmosphere you'd expect from a good horror film are gone. American rem... read moreakes tend to strip away the effective scares that have made the original films so good. This is the case with The Grudge. Everything about the film is so poorly constructed that it be seen as a documentary on how NOT to make a horror film. The acting in this film is terrible and the story is poorly developed and has nothing really going on. This remake is plainly a horrible mess of a film. I hated this film because it lacked anything that makes a horror film memorable. There are some good remakes in the horror genre, but The Grudge is one of many bad films that have been remade to cash in on the original. Everything about this film is terrible, acting, story and above all, scares. A good horror film has atmosphere to develop its horror, and the classics relied on that. But with these remakes of Japanese films, filmmakers rely on special effects to create tension, and I feel as a horror fan, it cheapens the look of the picture. Sure the film looks good, but it's still cheap compared to the horror classics. That proves that no amount of special effects can make an effective horror film. The Grudge is a poorly made film with bad acting and crap scares.
  • spielberg00
    August 8, 2011
    spielberg00
    I expected a fair amount of this movie, since we all know from experience that the movies with the bad reviews are usually that the ones which we find to our likings. When I actually saw this one (which I more specifically expected to be like THE RING or DARK WATER, given the fa... read morect that it is a horror remake, too), I was utterly disappointed. What was supposed to be "scary" or "disturbing" was actually what I found to be dumb and unintentionally funny. Very few parts did I actually like.
  • murphmann93
    June 23, 2011
    murphmann93
    Creepy and had me on the edge of my seat. A really great horror!
  • FrizzDrop
    November 16, 2010
    FrizzDrop
    Maybe I'm just a scaredy cat, but this adaptation from a Japanese horror film scared the bejesus outta me. Invisible ghosts that can hide in th shadows, a boy who meows, bathtubs unsafe for occupation. I spent a large amount of my high school years with the lights on thank you ve... read morery much.
  • lewiskendell
    June 22, 2010
    lewiskendell
    "Once you have become a part of it...it will never let you go. I'm sorry."

    I remember thinking that The Grudge was a pretty good horror flick when I was a teenager. Scary, as well. Boy, I must have been easily entertained back then.

    I suppose it would be pretty frightening if a... read moren evil spirit attached itself to you in real life, and there was no way to break the curse. But seeing it happen as The Grudge portrays it is pretty meh. This movie simply isn't scary. It relies on the simplest of jump scares, and it's only very often that they actually startle you.

    Scenes suddenly end and move on to the next, without ever explaining what happened to the characters in the missing time. People see things that would have any normal human being freaking out, and then carry on with whatever they were doing, as if nothing untoward happened. I haven't visited Japan, but I'm pretty sure that seeing vanishing, drowned ghost boys is so common there, that it doesn't cause much comment.

    Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a role that is so bland, that it hardly counts as a character. And she's the most fleshed-out of the entire bunch. Even the short runtime seems too long for what actually happens. The Grudge may have been passable back in 2004, but no longer. See Ju-on, instead. Or any of the other superior horror movies that have been released since then.
  • 3niR
    May 27, 2010
    3niR
    This was so freaking scary. I couldn't sleep at night for a month! Not watching this again.
  • LoughnerWasLucid
    May 26, 2010
    LoughnerWasLucid
    a kid in this movie is like a cat or something cause he keeps meowing and thats scary i guess. and so are peole whose mouths stretch open really wide when they scream, just so ill know they're evil.
  • deano
    May 16, 2010
    deano
    This is more scarier than US's horror remake The Ring.
    Horror remake of Japanese's 2002 Ju-on.

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James Berardinelli
November 6, 2004
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Generally speaking, I like a little more plot with my 'Boo!' moments. Full Review

Richard Roeper
October 26, 2004
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

It's no more impressive than hiding in the dark and shouting 'Boo!' when someone walks into a room. Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
October 22, 2004
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

It's just not the kind of frightening that stays with you very long, unless of course someone decides to make the same movie . . . yet again. Full Review

Stephen Hunter
October 22, 2004
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

It's enough to send you home with jiggly knees and a tummy ache. Full Review

Geoff Pevere
October 22, 2004
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

Almost every single one of the American characters has maybe a third of the personality of the ghosts that haunt them, so you begin to think the grudge itself is less a curse than a perfectly reasonab... Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
October 22, 2004
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

As it turns out, there is such a thing as a horror film with too much mindless killing. Full Review

Joe Baltake
October 22, 2004
Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

This material tries to camouflage its nagging repetitiveness with a lot of confusing flashbacks. Full Review

Roger Moore
October 22, 2004
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

A spine-tingling little creepshow. Full Review

Lisa Rose
October 22, 2004
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

While there is some artfully ghastly imagery on display, the movie is just one surrealist chill after another, with no cohesive story line to connect the scares. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
October 22, 2004
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

Mostly, it's a tepid affair.

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    • Toshio: actually the face of that child is like a real ghost
  • Even if you die, you can never escape.
  • The curse is about to claim another victim.
  • Do you have a grudge?
  • They say that when someone dies in a powerful rage. A curse is made.
  • The whole time I was in that house, I knew something was wrong.
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