Saw it in theaters...well saw about 9 mintues of it in theaters, the rest of the time my eyes were covered. I have the japanese version at home...won't be popping that one in anytime soon. BTW...A&C is for this type of stuff.
The entire audience was laughing when I was watching. After a few minutes of it I was curled up in the chair with eyes half-covered, crying, and quietly calling for mommy and for the movie to please stop and to go home. So I saw the entire thing. I still can't get over it, although I saw it some months ago. It touches on all childhood fears....
Once I got over that it had Sarah Michelle Geller in it (Hot, but should not have been casted ) I couldnt look away! That kid creeped me out though! But the person I saw it with covered her face the whole time. I want to see the original.
Very nice movie. Scared most of the time. The way the little boy does that cat sound scared me. Yet to see the Japanese version. I heard it is much more scary.
That kid was creepy as. I loved the movie, then went walking in a graveyard afterwards to push the boundries. Not a night to forget
i've never seen the movie, but according to my friends it was copying the The Ring. Some of the parts were identical. Since i love The Ring i never went to see the Grudge.
Really? They said that? I saw the ring, but I can't recall a single part that was idential or even similar. Much scarier than the ring, but I'll deffinatly be seeing the Ring 2. *** Part of the grudge that I didn't like was at the house in the end. When 'it' was climbing/crawling down the stairs. I laughed cause it looked so fake and stupid...but other than that, pretty good. I can't wait tilll the boogyman comes out...
This movie ruled. Its mark of genius: lack of human presence. Think about it. Aside: Why, oh why, do people find Geller 'hot' or 'cute' or 'irresistible'? She's got a simian brow, heavy lids, and flat hair.
I know, I find her ugly. She's a bad actress, too. And since she is associated with Buffy in my mind, even though I haven't watched TV in years, I somehow didn't expect her to be scared or dead any time soon. That half-ruined the experience for me. Bad choice of actress for the main role.
thing: Oh, they never kill the “famous”. You can only dream of seeing a Julia Roberts or a Gere get butchered off the screen for a change, but it never comes because it cost so much to put them in there. But someone like you or me…….. An all- Japanese cast would have been more credible. Even so, the movie was superb for its subtlety. Americans don’t know about subtlety. The horror of horror is its subtlety.
I haven't seen the Japanese version, but the American one sucked. A cat boy, with a high pitched meow? That reaks of psychological tricks. Scary movies are to me about real life situations. Shit that people just don't talk about because its not as nicely packaged as a halloween blockbuster...and there aren't many movies like that out there.
She does die at the end of the movie. the part where the ghost is behind her. They just don't show it. Spoiler: In the Japanese movie everybody supposedly dies.
Xerxes: But did you notice the utter lack of human presence? For example, the sister running scared from work, out onto the streets, into a cab and up to her apartment. All the neon lights and traffic made the streets look like Vegas, but there were no people. You never see the cabdriver. She enters her apartment building and there is no one- not even a receptionist- in the lobby. You see no one. This plays on the mammal need to see others when frightened. That was its genius. Not the cat-boy, I'll give you that. Certified psycho: No, you're led to infer that she might. All the others were slaughtered, you saw blood. But with simian-brow Geller, you only see a theory of the same thing. Smelled of apology- Geller torn to shreds like the commoners?! No way- we’ll figure something out.
The whole cat-boy was a cross between stupid and genius. I just can't decide which. I have to agree on that. The more real the movie appears, the more scary it would be. This movie relied on special effects a bit too much, but as someone said, the human presence (or lack thereof) really took the tool on the horror.
And you know the croaking from the phone? I can make that noise perfectly...take two phones and call yourself, it echoes back a milisecond later, creating that effect.
I don't see how she couldn't die; she was trapped in a room in the morgue all alone with the creature, the grudge. It supposedly always kills it's victim....right? But then again, you might be right. She might live... I'm not sure how acurate this is, but I heard there's a Japenese 'The Grudge 2" Whatta ya think of that? I might be wrong, but that's what I heard...
