THE
GRUDGE
2
With
Amber
Tamblyn,
Arielle
Kebbel,
Edison
Chen,
Jennifer
Beals,
Sarah
Michelle
Gellar,
Joanna
Cassidy
Directed
by Takashi
Shimizu
Wide
eyed
pale
Japanese
kids
hiding
in closets
or dark
baths
don’t
score
many
scare
points
anymore.
Even
though
this
was
made
by Takashi
Shimizu,
the
Japanese
originator
of the
Ju-On
movies
(as
with
The
Ring
remake
sequel
featuring
Ringu
2
director
Hideo
Nakata),
this
is hardly
an improvement.
The
first
Grudge
remake
had
a great
mood
with
a high
creep
factor.
Here
it’s
just
replication
with
even
the
shock
scare
attempts
failing.
The
sister
of Sarah
Michelle
Gellar’s
surviving
character
travels
to Japan
at her
miserable
mother’s
behest.
The
Grudge
curse
is however
far
from
rested
and
continues
its
wrath,
this
time
across
continents
as the
narrative
is inter
cut
between
both
Japan
and
America
(where
an apartment
building
becomes
unsettlingly
affected).
A couple
of Western
kids
at a
school
in Japan
visit
the
infamous
house
where
the
Grudge
originated
in order
to scare
the
shy,
bullied
one
of the
bunch.
The
curse
is reactivated
and
here
we go
again.
The
original
Prophecy
with
Christopher
Walken
was
cool,
but
then
the
lame
sequel
came
around
with
Jennifer
Beals…Beals
pops
up in
this
one,
so you
do the
math.
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