The Grudge Details

Scary...

This is the film that Sam Raimi desribed as one of the scariest movies he's ever seen, and I have to agree with him-this film freaked me out. I'm a fan of the others in ths genre-Ring, Dark Water, The Eye, but this is the scariest of them all. The Japanese horror directors certainly have a talent for making creepy, disturbing films, and this is the scariest I've seen so far.

I had read a number of reviews before seeing the film, most of which criticised the lack of story and character development, but it seems to me that the purpose of the film is to scare, so it doesn't really matter.

I wont go into the story in much detail, but it centres on a house which has some sort of curse attached to it, due to a murder, and a body that was never found.

Scene after scene is set up, showing what happens to anyone who has come into contact with the house, and I mean scary scene after scary scene! I'm not one to usually be affected by these films (although I found Dark Water very creepy) but this had me almost looking away from the screen about every 10 minutes. There's nothing particularly gory here, it's all to do with the atmosphere created. A lot of scenes just made me jump, like normal horror films, but others just made me feel uneasy, even when I knew what was coming.

I'd recommend this to anyone who liked the other films I mentioned-I thought it was closest to Dark Water in terms of creepy atmosphere, and I'd recommend watching it alone, in the dark!

[Highly rated reviewer]

What a load of old arse.

Not to mention ripped-off, secondhand, extremely pretentious, plotless, pointless and boring. I am so over this post Ring wave of thoughtless, rushed-out, shameless money-spinners. The supposed horror comes in the form of using irrelevant 'spooky' imagery that has absolutely nothing to do with the thin plot. You know what I mean; scary kids, scratchy noises, reversed filming etc. Can some one start making proper horror films again!? Jesus. The yanks only make horror films for kids, or awful remakes, and the Japanese can't get over Ring.

Korea is the new Japan.