It’s a 93 minute long fart noise.
The movie was quite average, wish there was more of a presence of the actual Grudge ghost, and not just the possession of characters. I do like what they did with the different interlocking storylines.
Another thing that didn’t reach my expectations is the prevalence of Japanese folklore and the lack of it. The film only mentioned Japan when referring to one of the past movies.
Overall, definitely not the worst movie, but I feel that it had much more potential to up the horror factor but also the Japanese culture factor.
DO NOT WATCH, this movie is stupid as fuck
How does a script like this gets approved? It's terrifying by its absolute lack of effort!
One of the worst “horror” movies that I’ve ever had the misfortune of watching. Relies far too heavily on jump scares and even those are so predictable they don’t even work.
The whole premise of the curse is ridiculous and there is absolutely no character development so you don’t even up caring for anyone at all in this movies.
Yet another pointless remake of a remake of a remake.
Do yourselves a favour and what the original Japanese Ju-On movies.
It was disappointing. Guess I was just expecting more than what the movie had.
Someone in the theater stood up immediately after it ended and said “what a wasted ” which was exactly how I felt too.
Part reboot, part sequel, The Grudge is a confusing mess that doesn’t deliver any scares. The story follows a police officer who investigates a brutal murder and discovers that it has a connection to a past case. The storytelling is especially poor, as it’s often unclear what’s going on; and is made more so by attempts to place the film in continuity with the previous Grudge films. Still, director Nicolas Pesce does a good job at setting a creepy and foreboding tone, and there are some disturbing scenes of violence. Yet The Grudge fails to offer any real thrills, supernatural or otherwise.
Note to myself: Just because Sam Raimi is the producer of the movie doesn't mean it will be good.
Well the film was watchable with some good moments but was definitely all over the place with the plot and some actors did better than the film itself, specially lin shaye that plays her horror roles well.
I didn’t like this new take on the grudge and definitely prefer the Japanese version and even the first remake that was close to the Japanese one starring Sarah michelle gellar that wasn’t bad but not great but was better than this version.
I giant meh. I don't dislike that the curse travels and that we followed a new character from the Saeki house to America. But the writing was just trash in comparison, it lost all of its charm and scare. I feel the more you move away from Japan and the Saeki family the less compelling it becomes. I didn't dislike The Grudge three as much as this but I disliked it in the same way. It's just not great, the first five minutes in Japan are great but everything else was just eh.
Its a bit of a mess really. There are a couple of good moments, but it's too convoluted for its own good. And please, can filmmakers please remember that just because you're making a horror movie, you don't have to cast Lin Shaye. She's great, but then again, so are a lot of other actresses who could have played her part.
How does a script like this gets approved? It's terrifying by its absolute lack of effort!
Taking a moment to remember the last 3 Grudge films - which were ripped from Ju-On: The Grudge in 2004, I really don't see a reason for this 'requel' as it's being called at all.
The film continues the same disjointed cop narrative overlaid with past moments from inside the house that led to how far the Grudge has come to this point. Tough, the storylines can be confusing as to which order they occured and it even follows some seriously specific aspects of the original 3 movies that didn't work the first time. This leaves the audience knowing exactly how it's going to end.
But, while this isn't necessarily bad for a horror film there is one thing that truly bothers me and it's a divergence from the original 3 that I don't think they're fully acknowledging. In the original 3 someone winds up in a mental hospital and is caught on camera being killed. You can't see the grudge but you can tell that he isn't the one murdering himself. In this movie someone else is in a mental hospital for 2 years and still isn't dead. While yes some gruesome stuff happens to him AFTER the main character comes to visit, he seems alive and relatively well. It just doesn't make any sense.
I appreciate that the ending stayed true to the original series. You can't stop the grudge.
This was, disappointing to say the least. Though it was a good idea in theory to add seperate storylines, I felt they were a bit disjointed and didn't flow well. I also felt the movie lacked a build up of tension necessary to really add punch to the jump scares they added. Overall, not a complete waste of time, just not what I hoped for.
I haven't seen this yet. But can I say, just please stop remaking good Japanese horror movies? Why do Americans think that they can remake a classic japanese horror movie and actually make it better? NO. This has never happened. Even the movie poster sucks. geez
I went to a preview screening for this movie.
For the positives:
- there are some really good scores in this movie
- the title card flashes up in japanese which is a nice tribute
- the practical effects look amazing
- the casting is really good - at times the mother looks like she's on the verge of a mental breakdown
- some of the dialogue is really touching and heartbreaking
- strongly developed small-town cop feels
- some of the characters have really good backstories
- grief is a strong theme in this movie
But the negative...oh goodness. The idea of the curse...basically a police officer takes the curse back with her from Japan and it infects her house. Despite this being a movie with several main character police officers, there is no investigation. They do not actually investigate the curse at all, because a previous character did all of it before. You dont get to see any of the discovery, you dont even get to see anything in Japan.
This movie is not scary. You don't see any chasing or stalking, you don't see any deaths until the end of the movie. It is all jump scare/fade to black. The CGI does not look good. The cadavers spewing flies look very fake. The blood splatter scene where the mother stabs herself in the neck looks very fake. The blood particularly looks almost pixelated on the stained glass window. I just can't understand that there are no real chase /stalking or fighting the bad monster scenes. It feels like a tribute to The Grudge in that they couldn't show the monster because they couldn't afford it in the budget. The Grudge aspect in this film is more like vengeful spirit possession, less tied to the idea of a monster personifying a grudge brought on my death.
The tonal shifts are really confusing as is the direction the movie goes in. It feels like the director wanted to make a well-shot western film or something like There Will Be Blood, but only got a horror movie instead. Some character and story elements are really underused. The main character has a son but he's in like 10% of the movie. They have a dog but it isn't even in more than 3 scenes?
Overall I'm just really disappointed since I thought it started pretty strong.
This was movie was absolute garbage.
Surprisingly beautiful soundtrack for a horror movie.
Someone needs to alert the editors that they forgot to include the parts where something actually happens in the final cut.
Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ring. Boring. Boring Times 5
Looks pretty good, try it
The only reason i finished it, was zu get it of my Netflix List.
This is nothing comparable to the older The Grudge.
The only Horror-ish Moments in this movie are cheap Jumpscares...
Let's just say "horror" word should not be in the genre section of this movie, mystery is good ... Actually if you start on that basis then you'll probably not be so "what just happened?" at the end of it all :)).
Somehow watchable .. i can relate to the haunting ... I am also haunted IRL :(
Did they really do the peek-a-boo bit out of the Japanese version?
Anyway, The Grudge is a kind of a weak attempt to reboot/continue the American "Grudge" movies. This time we have the vengeful Melinda. She holds a grudge to anyone that enters the house she was murdered in.
To me, this one wasn't all that bad. Maybe it was because I went in with low expectations because of all the bad stuff I read about it. I did need to rewind the film in the middle because I fell asleep, but that might have been just me. Some deaths are brutal, the scares you can see coming from a mile away and there is almost none to none atmosphere in this one. Which is a big letdown. Especially with Sam Raimi attached as a producer.
I did enjoy seeing John Cho, Elizabeth Folan Gilpin and Frankie Faison (Damn I need to watch the Wire again!). Sometimes you just need to enjoy the little things right?
not the worst, but very boring and forgettable.
The Grudge is McDonald's horror: it has a famous name but tastes like it's generic.
The best thing about The Grudge is that it didn't piss me off. The worst thing about it is everything else. There's no narrative arc here, it's just people from jumbled time lines walking around houses where damp spirits wade in shadows. There's no aesthetic, unless you call toilet bowl gray a look. There are no scares... The only thing scary about it is how predictable it all is.
Oh well, it didn't make me mad and I didn't fall asleep, so for a franchise at least I got what I expected. Hell, it was better than The Grudge 3.
The Grudge was so boring I almost fell asleep at the theater... The only thing who made me open my eyes was the sound of the weak jumpscares who kept showing up. I'm sure it'll remain one of the worst of 2020.
Reboot is not great! Movie is called Grudge but where is she!
Very disappointed with this one.
Shout by Lisa Anne DaviesBlockedParent2020-03-13T02:11:36Z
what a pile of shit