Product Description: Acclaimed producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise have re-teamed with director Takashi Shimizu and screenwriter Stephen Susco to present this heart-stopping sequel to the smash-hit thriller, The Grudge. When Aubrey Davis learns her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Geller) has been hospitalized, she immediately flies to Tokyo. Once there, she learns her sister's horrifying story and discovers that the fatal supernatural curse has been unleashed. Now, as the grudge spreads across the world, a new host of unsuspecting victims are about to become infected by the force that can't be stopped -- and won't be killed.
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The Grudge 2 is a spooky installment in Takashi Shimizu's hardworking Ju-on/Grudge series of horror pictures. It doesn't carry the disorienting thrill of the very first Japanese Ju-on features, but it's a lot creepier than anybody could have expected. The story picks up from the end of the first Hollywood version of The Grudge, and has nothing to do with Ju-on 2, Shimizu's Japanese sequel. Sarah Michelle Gellar returns (a distinctly supporting role) as an American woman traumatized by her experiences with a haunted house in Tokyo; younger sister Amber Tamblyn flies over to help out. This particular storyline doesn't have much meat on it; the murder house is still there, and people who go inside have a disconcerting habit of dropping dead. Fortunately, two other plots thread into the basic one: a group of American schoolgirls in Tokyo become intrigued by the legend of the house, and some Chicago apartment dwellers are unsettled by domestic anxiety and the weird sounds coming from next door. (This storyline, featuring Jennifer Beals, gives the film its extremely satisfying opening sequence.) As usual with these movies, sequences come to us in non-chronological order, and it's up to us to piece it together. You can guess where the film is going, but the slow trajectory toward its final sequences is surprisingly involving. The movie was widely panned upon its release, which says more about the presumption of the law of diminishing sequel returns than the film itself--it's a decent little horror flick. --Robert Horton
Awful I'm a big SMG fan and so I watched this. Too bad I didn't read some of the reviews first. This was a big stinking waste of 2 hours of my life. It was the most disjointed movie I've ever seen; we leap from one silly, nonsensical part to the next and it is as disjointed as the goofy ghost-girl that pops up to drag people off to whatever lays beyond the mirror.
Maybe if I'd watched them in order this would have made sense, but now I'm not even going to give the first one a chance because this one was so terrible.
Poor Imitation A sub par imitation of the first one and in some places, "The Ring." Note to the director: Neither eeriness nor creepiness can replace an actual storyline.
Will scare you out of your seat I loved the opening scene where Jennifer Beals character first pours hor bacon grease over her live in boyfriends head, and to finish it off then hits him over the head with a cast iron frying pan. Awsome. We don't know at that point she has been taken over by the "thing". One of the better horror shows in years. Beals can do it all, but gets little credit.
SCARY BUT STUPID ALL THIS MOVIE WAS ABOUT IS A GHOST WITH HER EYE'S POPING OUT. WHOOPEEE! LOL
Mediocre writing, directing, and acting Japanese films have a long tradition of ghost stories, both played for scares and morality lessons. The new wave of ghost stories have caught on in the West but the results are bumpy. Grudge 2 doesn't have the surprise factors that the first movie did and has to rely on other devices to be engaging. It fails. Many of the scenes have the actors slowly walking around dark rooms and then finding something, maybe a ghost, maybe a body, maybe someone just hiding. Sound familiar? It has all the conventional scenes of horror films and none of what made Grudge a thrilling scary ride. I prefer mystery to horror and gore so I liked the Grudge well enough. However Grudge 2 oculd easily be skipped.
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