Synopsis
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
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Cast
- Sarah Michelle GellarKaren Davis
- Jason BehrDoug McCarthy
- Takako FujiKayako Saeki
- Yuya OzekiToshio Saeki
- William MapotherMatthew Williams
- Clea DuVallJennifer Williams
- KaDee StricklandSusan Williams
- Grace ZabriskieEmma Williams
- Bill PullmanPeter Kirk
- Rosa BlasiMaria Kirk
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Slightly less frightening than the original, but it's still a scary psycho-horror that effectively replicates its bleak and crisp shocks. - 60
Washington Post
It's effectively frightening. 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. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic. - 50
Village Voice
The overdetermined approach preempts character shadings or social subtext-just compare Hideo Nakata's original "Ring," which tapped its dread from viral-replicant mass culture and its pathos from a broken home, or Nakata's "Dark Water," which channeled the sorrow, guilt, and paranoia felt by a young divorcée mired in a custody battle. - 50
The A.V. Club
Less a film than a terror delivery system, The Grudge repeatedly shows off Shimizu's technical chops, but never gives viewers a reason to care about or identify with the victims. - 50
Premiere
American audiences have seen Ju-On. And The Grudge just goes to show why remaking it is such a frivolous idea: What's the use in wasting so much energy if the filmmakers aren't going to fix what was wrong with the movie in the first place? - 50
The New York Times
Less scary than creepy, The Grudge may have lost some oomph in the translation from Japanese to English, and the desire for a PG-13 rating probably muted the violence and perhaps the scares. - 40
Dallas Observer
Despite the tighter rewrite and the slicker production, it's obvious that Shimizu is still searching for what scares him, and until he finds it, he doesn't stand--ahem--a ghost of a chance of frightening us.
