The Grudge

[remmies]

Has anyone else seen the previews for the grudge?I want to see it very bad and was wondering what other people on the forums were thinking about it.Personally I think it looks like the perfect horror movie.

[LGM]

This DOES looks good. Bill Pullman is finally back in movies.. And a shower seen with Gellar? *drool*

[AGA]

You wanna see Yuri Gellar in the shower? Sick fuck.

[Pet Terry]

I saw Ju-On: The Grudge yesterday and found it really scary. Judging the trailer this remake doesn't seem as good, but I'm going to see it.

[Shattered Sponge]

The remake has the same director, and even some of the same actors; I hear it is pretty much shot-for-shot the original film.

I saw the original (I keep calling it 'the original', but actually I believe that it's the third or fourth in a series; the previous chapters being made-for-video movies which I don't think have been officially translated) in the cinema a few weeks ago, and frankly was underwhelmed.Ã,  I'd heard that the film was utterly terrifying, and while there were some rather creepy moments, they were more than balanced out by the very nearly hilarious ones (such as the first time the ghost shows up on screen above the old woman).

'Dark Water' was another japanese horror film which had some silly moments (the water seeping out of the girl's shoes for a ridiculous amount of time, for example) but that was negated by the way the film as a whole slowly built up the atmosphere until it reached a magnificent climax; the episodic structure of Ju-On meant that such a build-up wasn't particularly workable.

That said, David Lynch films usually maintain a pretty constant pace, and have plenty of funny moments (though I suspect more intentionally funny than those in Ju-On), but still remain very unsettling overall; perhaps, then, I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about.Ã,  Still, I felt Ju-On: The Grudge was not all it was marked up to be.

[Kinoko]

Dark Water... was that the film about the drop of water that went from person to person making them do evil things? If so, LOVED that film (though I wouldn't call it horror, it was never scary).

[Mr_Frisby]

Nope, it was about a haunted appartment with a wet stain in the ceiling that keeps getting bigger and bigger. To cut a long story short - the ending with the elevator scene where the woman decides to stay with the falling apart mutant zombie kid was laughable. All in a all a good film .

[Esseb]

But more of a comedy, as is most Asian horror movies.

* Esseb gets back to watching Phone.