Grudge

Year: 2004

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Shimizu

Review

the original is better, i’ll get that out of the way first. is this film scary? yes. does that mean it’s a good movie? not really. the film’s primary problem is that the horror doesn’t really unfold in any grand way. stories are often referred to as having arcs, but i think the same can be said for the fright level of a film. blair witch project did an amazing job (at least for me) of slowing building tension and fear to a great climax. this film’s scares seemed to operate in spurts that were mostly repetitive and equally scary. this version’s storytelling is a bit more explicit and filled in some of the questions that i had from the first one, but it also cut out one major sequence and altered the story a bit. overall i didn’t see any major deficiencies in the story relative to the first one. however, the original version did do a better job of creeping me out and was shot better.

Watched in theater