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Karen, an exchange student who agrees to cover for a nurse, unknowingly enters a Tokyo house, unaware that a dark secret lies within. The house is cursed with a violent plague that causes those individuals who enter the building to die within a fit of rage. As more and more people become victims to the curse, Karen is forced to .. Read more

Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Clea Duvall
Director Takashi Shimizu
Genres Horror

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The Grudge

Karen, an exchange student who agrees to cover for a nurse, unknowingly enters a Tokyo house, unaware that a dark secret lies within. The house is cursed with a violent plague that causes those individuals who enter the building to die within a fit of rage. As more and more people become victims to the curse, Karen is forced to investigate...

Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Clea Duvall, William Mapother, Kadee Strickland
Director Takashi Shimizu
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 28 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections 100 Horror Films
Genres Horror
Language English
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 14 Feb 2005
Production year: 2004
Format DVD

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  • American remake of a repetitious horror movie that gains nothing from its bigger budget and English-speaking actors; its involved narrative structure, in which time is frequently out of joint, adds only confusion.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

  • Two years after the success of Gore Verbinskis The Ring, heres another cash-in on a profitable Japanese... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 08 Sep 2009

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  • 44 out of 70 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Superior American Remake

    This film has received mixed reviews from people in the Media with the likes of Hotdog magazine giving it 4 out of 5 while News of the World only give it 1. Depending on which of these two titles you are more likely to agree with will go a long way on deciding whether this film is for you.

    Remade from a Japanese horror film of the same name and by the same director, The Grudge represents a new type of sub-genre yet to hit the West. Rather than go for the out and out shocks of its American counterparts The Grudge builds up the tension with strange occurrences and non-linear storyline.

    I personally felt it was the scariest film I have seen for a long time and would recommend it to not only Japanese film fans but also horror fans. Probably one to miss though if you are not a fan of a more leisurely paced film.

    (Based on cinema version of film)

      • Samuel Tyler from Reading, England
      • Posted 11 Nov 2004 13:51

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Do NOT watch it

    I say that not because it is a bad film-although it isn't great-but because it is a horrible film.

    I have been watching horror films since i was about ten or eleven, because back then nothing scared me. I'm still a huge horror fan, and though i usually laugh at horrors, this film terrified me. I watched it about a year ago, and i still feel as scared of it now as i did back then. I haven't stopped thinking about it.

    The worst thing is the noise-but i'll let you find out about that. I watched it in surround, not a good idea. My friend actually wanted to use it as an alarm to wake me up the next day.

    The whole movie is constantly tense-unlike a lot of horrors, you never get a little bit of peace. It is an original idea, and well executed. Tbh at the end i did laugh, but it couldn't be creepier.

    The acting is pretty horrific. Perhaps a reason we dont see Sarah Michelle Gellar very often. Although the kids are good.

    I've yet to watch the original. I'm not sure i have the guts.

    So if you're looking for fair effects, bad acting, originality and being mentally scarred for life, this is the film for you.

      • A customer from Spalding
      • Posted 23 Oct 2008 16:12

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    The Grudge tops US Halloween box office

    • 01 Nov 2004

    Sarah Michelle Gellar's horror hit The Grudge has topped the US Box Office over the Halloween weekend. The haunted house thriller - which, like surprise hit The Ring, is a remake of a Japanese film - took $22.4 million from Friday to Sunday. This is the second week at the top for the former Buffy star's return to her supernatural roots. Second in the chart, compiled by Exhibitor Relations, is Ray - a movie charting the turbulent life of Ray Charles, who died in June this year. Jamie Foxx, in... Read more

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