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Critics Consensus: There's some creepy imagery to be found, but not much in the way of logic or truly jarring scares.
Critic Consensus: There's some creepy imagery to be found, but not much in the way of logic or truly jarring scares.
All Critics (159) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (97) | DVD (22)
Generally speaking, I like a little more plot with my 'Boo!' moments.
It's no more impressive than hiding in the dark and shouting 'Boo!' when someone walks into a room.
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.
It's enough to send you home with jiggly knees and a tummy ache.
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 reasonable eviction strategy.
It's refreshing to see a PG-13 horror film that aims for good old-fashioned spookiness.
If the cast looks ordinary, you should see the plot.
Completely misses the point of the original.
Grisly ghost story lacks plot; not for tweens.
[Blu Ray] Only the hi-def obsessed should double-dip for this one, DVD owners can still sit pretty.
...just cannibalizes itself, exploiting Japanese spirituality for a few Saturday-night shocks...
full review in Greek
A haunted house exists. You go in it, you die. That's the premise of The Grudge. Now watch all the characters who went inside get killed in between long passages of pointless dialogue and nothing happening. If the image of a long haired girl in a nightgown creeps you out, this may work on you. I was just bored.
Super Reviewer
"The Grudge" is a creep-fest that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's not that the movie is complex, the opposite is true. It just takes a pedestrian ghost story involving vengeance and anger and surrounds it with jolts and more jolts. Takashi Shimizu doesn't seem concerned with originality or substance as long as he can make creepy ghosts jarringly jump out at characters. While this is scary at times after a while you just stop caring. Sarah Michelle Gellar does the best she can with a thin role that requires her to just skulk around, look scared and ask questions. And when the answers come they prove to be unsurprisingly and unoriginal. "The Grudge" is forgettable and mindless.
A terrifying concept executed poorly. Only brings a few scares, but due to the lack of story nothing leaves a lasting impact. The flashbacks are annoying as fuck. It's a tough film to get involved with and the ending blows.
The rule of thumb for watching any Japanese horror film that is remade in Hollywood is to go for the original, subtitles be damned. The one exception is The Ring. The Grudge remake, made by the exact same director of the original, is a series of confusing, disconnected creepy scenes until the end where you kinda-sorta get an explanation. No plot. Just typical stupid horror movie characters doing stupid things. "Oh, let's go check out that really creepy sound all by myself after I found my wife/mother/girlfriend/pet dead/catatonic/." Having seen nearly all the Japanese horror flicks, there is a clear culture of fear of long black hair, water and eyeballs or mouths that are stretched/blacked out via photoshop/CGI. When you experience it for the first time, it's scary. The second time, it's interesting. For the third, fourth, ...., it's yaaawwwwwnnnn.
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