½
2004
Rated: PG-13 for mild language, intense imagery, and gore.
Genre: Horror Suspense Supernatural
Directed By: Takashi Shimizu
Running Time: 1:26
Review by: Neal Bailey
Review Date: 3/07/05
DVD Features:
Documentary - 1. "A Powerful Rage: Behind the Grudge"
Audio Commentary - 1. Sam Raimi - Director, Ted Raimi, Sarah Michelle Gellar - Stars
Featurette - 1. "Under the Skin"
Trailers - 1. Sony Pictures Previews
If you like this, try: The Grudge (2004), Amityville Horror, Amityville: The Possession, Prince of Darkness, The Eye, Ringu, The Ring, Stephen King's It, Poltergeist, The Haunted

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THE GRUDGE (2004)

 

This film has a few genuine scare moments that make you leap from your seat. It’s mainly accomplished through quick camerawork and scary sounds, but it’s there, and they deserve credit for that. That’s what saves this movie from being a total loss.

Well, there’s the fact that the translation of this movie doesn’t translate. It’s like a hundred other movies I’ve seen, and it’s also dreadfully repetitive. We see person after person go into the haunted house and get hurt, killed, crazed, or otherwise. Stephen King knows how to do that, and even he’s tired out that theme.

The horror involved is, as well, just hilarious. When you see something that scares you, it’s supposed to chill you. Like the Creeper in Jeepers Creepers 2. You see those eyes, and you don’t want to be watching the movie any more, you’re so scared. This movie has little children who meow and burp. I kid you not. And when they attack, you’re just wondering why the character being attacked doesn’t just hit them with a stick or something.

There’s also irrational connections between deaths, a number of unexplained things, and just generally too much repetition.

Not that great. I heard good things about this movie, but I was dubious because The Ring didn’t translate well for me, and I’m not fond of Sarah Michelle Gellar. I don’t think she can act very well in films, and there’s no connection with her character here, really.

Bottom line, who’s afraid of a kid who burps you to death?

 

 

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