The Grudge

The movie follows events in 2004 to 2006 in a small Pennsylvanian town. Nurse Fiona Landers brings the spirit from Japan to America. There are police detectives Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough), Goodman (Demián Bichir), and Wilson (William Sadler). Peter (John Cho) and Nina Spencer (Betty Gilpin) are a married real estate agent couple. Lorna Moody (Jacki Weaver) arrives to assist the struggling Mathesons (Lin Shaye, Frankie Faison).

Nobody cares that this ties in with the rest of the Grudge franchise other than the Japanese house. So the start is the only truly interesting part and then it slowly grinds to a halt. The scrambled timeline and the multiple interconnected stories somehow saps the tension out of the movie. The excellent cast has no chance. The jump scares aren't scary. It's all very flat.

The writers behind this should hang their heads in shame. I was looking for a decent horror of 2020 and this was recommended The plot of the film goes like this... dialogue/creepy music/aaaaaagggh uuugghhhh/insert some 'horror' (not connected with anything)/repeat 15 times/end film. Rubbish.

Went into this seeing the 4.3 rating and being like aww man it's gonna suck, it's really not that bad, the film does a lot of time jumping around but you can follow it, the story line is mehhh, but theres a lot of scares, cringe moments, anticipation, it's not a 4.3! Watch it alone, late at night with headphones on and you will enjoy!

Good photography and direction but the script makes no sense. From the beginning to the end I asked myself: why this is happening? What's going on here? I was a fan of the original one, the original story and the turn at the end made a great movie. So why this?

So this movie is not Ju-On. Not even close to it.

The story places itself in it's universe, it uses it's known sound effect and the idea of the curse. That's all.

Otherwise, you are going to see terrible actors without character. There's is no character arc at all. The story is just a CHEAP (with big letters) ripoff...

It's all about weak jumpscares (you even know when to expect it as they turn the sound off to warn you) and plotholes ofc.

I would not make horror movies as it's not my style, but there was a scene in a wardrobe.. How an Earth did anyone on set thought that it was the right setup?

They missed everything that made Ju-On good and put their amateur thinking into this movie instead.

Not worth the money. (There were 2 people walking out of it.)

Btw, the cinematography, the editing, the acting, the directing (especially) was just awful.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone even if you liked any of the Grudge movies.