Rate The Grudge

[Krug]

What do you think?

 

[Krug]

Bumpin'...

 

[John Crichton]

I have no desire to see this movie.

Anyone have any thoughts? I'm going to see Saw next weekend to get my Halloween horror fix. Is this one worth seeing in the theater?

 

[13garth13]

It is a little disjointed, and characters do from time to time engage in typical horror movie, nightmare-logic bouts of decision making, i.e. doing things that you suspect most of us wouldn't do in a million years if we actually knew we were in a horror movie .....
However.... ....it is also incredibly, grab ahold of the theatre arm-rest creepy and there's more than a few jumps in store.
The acting, etc. is nothing too special, but as an atmospheric, skin-crawling fright-flick it succeeds in spades.
Long and short = spooky/creepy as hell, which is what most of us go to these sorts of flicks for.
Also, I'd swear that the woman who plays the major spirit (trying to be as non-specific as possible to avoid spoilers) is the same as in the orginal (Ju-On) which this one (appropriately) follows with almost no deviation that I could notice. Can anyone back this up (I haven't checked out any casting lists...)?

 

[Captain Howdy]

Also, I'd swear that the woman who plays the major spirit (trying to be as non-specific as possible to avoid spoilers) is the same as in the orginal (Ju-On) which this one (appropriately) follows with almost no deviation that I could notice. Can anyone back this up (I haven't checked out any casting lists...)?

I haven't gotten out to the theatre to see it yet, but if you are talking about Toshio, then yes, it is the same person. The name is Yuya Ozeki. Like I said, I haven't gotten to see it yet, but the original was good, and the american one looks better. I heard that the Ring 2 trailer is shown. Anyone?
Also, I know that Grace Zabriskie is in the movie. She played Laura Palmer's mother in Twin Peaks. Can anyone tell me if she screams alot in the movie? It seems to be her trademark...

 

[Krug]

It took in US$15mil on Friday according to Box Office Mojo. Looks like it's going to have a great weekend.

 

[13garth13]

I haven't gotten out to the theatre to see it yet, but if you are talking about Toshio, then yes, it is the same person. The name is Yuya Ozeki. Like I said, I haven't gotten to see it yet, but the original was good, and the american one looks better. I heard that the Ring 2 trailer is shown. Anyone?
Also, I know that Grace Zabriskie is in the movie. She played Laura Palmer's mother in Twin Peaks. Can anyone tell me if she screams alot in the movie? It seems to be her trademark...

Well, glad to hear I'm not going crazy regarding Toshio! It was a little more polished than the original but other than using some American actors with some small bits of culture shock worked into the script (which sort of helps accentuate the weirdness....don't go in expecting Lost in Translation level analysis of the Stranger in a Strange Land phenomenon though... it doesn't really deviate much at all from the original. Always good to see Ted Raimi though, no doubt via his brother's influence (loved him as a bit-part actor ever since he played the demonically possessed old hag in Evil Dead 2..."Someone's in my fruit-cellar....someone with a fresh soul!")
At the theatre we were at there wasn't a Ring 2 trailer, but we walked in a couple of minutes late for the start of the previews, so you might want to take that with a grain of salt.
Grace Zabriskie is in, and she doesn't scream a bit....although she sure does play her typically strange/demented role to the hilt (methinks she's getting a bit typecast...it seems to me that I haven't ever seen her play a mentally stable character since Twin Peaks...)

Cheers, eh.
Colin

 

[Gunslinger]

I really liked the movie. The story didn't make a whole lot of sense, but it was pretty scary.

 

[Krug]

And it made US$40 mil over the past weekend. Quite stunning. I think good word of mouth will help it sell additional tix. Though I found Ju-on flawed and the horror didn't resonate the way The Ring or Dark Water did, I think the scares are pretty effective. I'm sure The Grudge will be the same.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I thought it was alright, but not great. The scene in the shower is quite good – normally watching SMG shower (e.g. all slippery wet nakedness) would not give me a royal case of the heebie-jeebies.

That said, the move felt less than the sum of its parts. The ending in particular felt weak. And the curse of the place seemed rather focused. We did not see it take down the realtor who entered and sold the house and all the other police, forensic scientists who investigated the deaths.