dasarpituki A must watch if you are looking for some adrenaline rush.

Dalbert Pringle Ha! You wanna laugh? - This truly demented, little, Japanese, ghost story tells us (with total dead-seriousness) that a house (or dwelling) will automatically become cursed (with a haunting) if someone happens to die there in either a fit of hellish rage or in the despair of great sorrow.Oh, really!!?? - Well - If this is so, then, can you just imagine how many places (especially hospitals and senior's homes) that would be carrying curses right at this very moment?? Wow! If this was the case, then the total number of cursed places, worldwide, would truly be a staggering number. I'd say there'd probably be a cursed residence in just about every single neighbourhood, from here to eternity, and beyond.Anyways- With its story moving along at an absolute snail's pace, The Grudge (and its mega-cheap scares) was pretty awful horror, for the most part. I mean, it wasn't even a slightly interesting ghost story, if you ask me.As it turned out - More than anything else, my main effort while watching The Grudge was to actually stay focused enough in hopes of remaining fully-awake through the blasted thing.

Red-Barracuda There is a house in Tokyo where every visitor ends up dead. A child and a mother live there. Both are ghosts. Their presence stems from a traumatic event in the house's past. The story follows a variety of characters that enter this house.The film is structured into a series of short vignettes. We follow different people who encounter the horror of the mysterious house. To be honest, the plot only barely makes any sense. It seems to be no more than really an excuse to string together a number of scary moments. This is excusable on the grounds that this is a genuinely unsettling film. It's unnerving in that way that the best Japanese ghost movies are. The cultural difference between east and west means that these movies come at us in ways we can't predict as easily. The Grudge, like Ring, is no different in this respect and its scare factor stems quite a bit from this unknown quality. There is a constant atmosphere of dread in this one.If it perhaps had a little more coherence it would have the potential to reach the top bracket of horror. As it is, it works as an exercise in inventively scary Japanese horror moments. For me this is a perfectly acceptable compensation, as it's quite rare for any film to scare you in the way that this one sometimes does. So with that in mind, it's quite obvious that this movie has achieved something impressive.

jmd-30 Many of the reviews on here are excellent and there's no need for me to restate what they've said already about this beautiful movie. I would like to add a little about the ending. Does contain spoilers, so beware.I was upset on seeing the Hollywood remake to see they'd simply latched onto the "scary woman" and turned her into a monster. The most unsettling part of this movie, for me, was the realisation in the end that she's no killing people - she's just pleading for help. It's her husband who's doing the killing. For her, the murder just keeps happening over and over, and Toshio has to watch it every time.The shift between fear and sympathy came as quite a jolt to me.