The Grudge: Member Review Thread (Will Contain Spoilers)

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Since we have a thread with articles about it, I figured it best to have an offical 'review' sort of thread where those that have seen it can talk about it.

Buffy Summers and myself saw this tonight, and it was good. From the trailer the little boy with the meeow scared the hell out of me but thats nothing compared to the movie.

It was the eyes, the visuals of the woman and the cute little boy (when he was pretending to be one) with the evil eyes. At first I thought it was annoying that they would cut the story back and forth between timelines but it helped explain it for me.

I've not actually sat through a horror movie that scared me like that, and I do believe I let out a little scream in the cinema. A few of the bits that got to me was where she was on the bus and all of a sudden the face was at the window! And lets not forget the jawless woman.

There was one bit that I thought was pretty amusing. The daughter of the old woman who lived in the house. When it came after her, what does she do, she jumps into bed and hides under the covers! Is it a case of being a kid again and thinking if I can't see you, you can't see me?

I did wonder why the cat noises were important. I saw the picture of the family and the little boy holding the cat so I figured he just loved his cat. Until the flashback where you see it all happening where the man is beating his wife, and what does he do...he picks up the cat and beats her with that!!! Poor kitty!

I have a feeling that i'm going to have trouble sleeping tonight as I have a large imagination. But the feeling I got from the others in the cinema is that they really liked it too (and were scared by it as you could hear people making noises as they jumped), and thats whats important.
 
This film looks way scary.

I posted some pics of Sarah in the gallery.

Apparently it is scarier than the original film and has a different ending.
 
I liked the fact that it was done by the original director, as it was his work. I didn't know about the different ending, but I am going to get the orginal one to see how it looks.
 
Oh my god that was the scariest movie I have ever seen in my life! You could sit there in the theater and just hear people exclaiming expletives lol ie "****!" lol

I agree about the face on the bus - though the meow isn't as bad for me as the voice...the uh like throat growl thing. And then people were doing it as we were going out of the theater which was so creepy.

I now have a major fear of Asian women lol... (JK)
 
I think that I built up high expectations for this movie because I came out thinking that it could've been better. Or maybe have more explanations. (Like why did Karen get to see that Peter flashback? Was it his ghost explaining it to her? Why did the American mother live so long in the house? Why was the Japanese wife so in obsessed with Peter? I'm mean, he's o-kay.)

..But really, I'm sure that I'm just overthinking. I admit though, that I was truly into it during the suspenseful parts (the opening of closets and such) and that I did jump at the bus part, which I LOVE. But still, I feel like it could have been "cleaner". I mean, I liked the flashbacky type of storytelling, but something about the whole movie just wasn't together enough for me.

But anyhow, enough of me criticizing! I'm still glad I got to watch it today! Only now I'm jonesing for more horror flicks.
 
I saw the trailer on Saturday night and i almost had a heart attack (i was scared sh**less) After seeing all the Ringu and The Ring films. They are the most frightening things i have ever seen and i promised myself(for my own mental stability) that i wouldn't see another creey Japaneese Horror film.... So I'm going to see the Grudge on Halloween Night (It's comes out Oct.31st in Ireland.. So i'd guess the same for UK)
 
I saw it last night and was pretty unimpressed, to say the least. I didn't like the plot, the cliches, the bad special effects, the acting (except SMG - I liked her, and Jason Behr), or pretty much anything about it. I wasn't scared at all and I scare easily.

Ok, that's a little misleading. I closed my eyes when Yoko was coming down the stairs at the care center, dripping, and she turns around to face the camera when you see she's not all there. I knew what was coming and I blurred my vision because.....ew.

Sorry guys, I just didn't like it.
 
I saw this the first night it came out, which was 2 nights ago, with BillieHunter and my other cousin and few friends. Then I saw it again last night with some more friends. But that first night that I saw it, at that one part where Mathew's sister crawled into bed in her apartment and all of sudden the girl is under the covers, I screamed so loud that my lungs hurt!
And the part where SMG's on the bus and she goes to look out the window and she sees the girl's reflection....holy crap that startling lol.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. I love scary movies, so one with SMG in it, since she's my favorite actress, was awesome.

But in the theater everyone would scream, and then start cracking up because they all thought it was funny how everyone would freak out. So that kinda ruined it, but oh well. And people also were making that noise as we were leaving...that was creepy. Lol we all ending up sleeping at Alyssa's house that night 😀 Pretty much everyone was too scared to go home 🙂 But I know I've never screamed so much in my life 😀
 
Ok here's my thoughts from the other thread, plus some new ones:

I went and saw The Grudge on opening night last Friday, I really liked it! It totally scared me.

The Grudge had an excellent plot, creepy yet 'normal' settings, and good frights. Oh and the score really added to the movement and feel of the movie. I liked the unfamiliarity of Tokyo...it let us feel as displaced as the American characters was...very unsettling. I LOVED the way they told the story, I loved how it wasn't chronological. The stories were so interesting.

Oh and the kid meowing was creepy..but did anyone else freak out at the nose it made when Matthew's sister was on the phone with it? Holy crap! That scene terrified me...and with the camera...good god!

And also...I totally missed this but my hubby and two friends pointed it out once we left the theatre...but the nurse in the medical exam room at the end...the one who doesn't leave with the detective but stays in the room, was the mother who was murdered by her husband. Was the ghost basically.

Now I TOTALLY missed this..I didn't even realize the nurse had stayed. So I'm obviously pretty dense 😉 did I ruin the end of the movie for myself by not getting that? 🙂
 
Wait - so when Sarah goes to the Morgue to identify the body, the detective (who didn't die - shouldn't he die?) goes out of the room and Sarah goes up to lift up the sheet an look, right? And then he changes into to ghost...so there's a nurse in the room?
 
Sarah is with the other detective (whose partner, the main detective, died) when she goes into the room. There's a female nurse in there. The detective turns to her, and they bow to each other, and he leaves..but she stays. This nurse is the same actress who was playing the 'killer woman' throughout the movie! He goes out into the hall and talks to another nurse.

Cut back to Sarah whose looking at her bfs body. You see the hair and arm of the woman fall out under the sheet, but then it changes back to her bf. So you think "oh she's tramautized, she's seeing things now."

Then, as the camera focuses on Sarah, it pans around and you see the killer woman behind her.

So the killer woman was in the room the whole time...as the nurse, out to get Sarah!

And I agree...she should be after that other detective too as he was in the house with his partner.

Although he never looked her in the eyes..which I think might have something to do with it. The detective saw her eyes on the surveillance camera in the office tower.
 
Wow...I didn't notice that! Thanks for pointing that out 😀 I knew there had to be a reason why the nurse stayed there, but I didn't know that it was the killer mother. But that does make sense....

I was so mad at the end when they said "We managed to save the house"....I was like "what?!?!" but that's good in a way because it's more....I dunno, interesting? lol I can't think of the word...

The first time I saw the movie (i just remembered this lol) well at the part where Sarah opens the doors to the room because the lady was kinda scratching at them to get out or somethin and her hand grabbed Sarah's foot....well that was startling. But the second time I saw the movie and that happened, I just sat there cause I knew it was coming and everyone else in the theater jumped...you felt it lol. That was pretty darn cool 😉
 
Kazby said:
I was so mad at the end when they said "We managed to save the house"....I was like "what?!?!" but that's good in a way because it's more....I dunno, interesting? lol I can't think of the word...

The first thing that came into my mind when that happened was 'sequel much'. Most people in the cinema at that time either laughed or went 'nooooo'

I didn't notice the thing about the nurse either Jenny. Will have to see it again and watch it with more attention now I know where all the jumpy bits are.
 
Faith said:
I didn't notice the thing about the nurse either Jenny. Will have to see it again and watch it with more attention now I know where all the jumpy bits are.

I know I didn't realize it either...it was Trav and my 2 friends who caught that..lol I really want to see it again too because apparently when the first caretaker, Yoko, stuck her head up in the attic you could see the white face very faintly moving around her..but then it stopped so you thought it was just part of the background..until Yoko turned around with the light and you saw her face clearly...lol I missed that too!

I think I might be too chicken to buy the DVD though ... lol though I know I'll buy it 😉
 
Too many to decide from!!! Maybe the very ending, or definitely the cellphone in the office scene....or the BED scene!!! when she gets pulled under!

How bout you?
 
Wow, that movie scared the bejeezus out of me! I loved it! It definitely kept me intrigued, but it has now resulted in harassment. My hubby keeps doing that growl around the house. (LMAO-Remembers Faith and Buffy yelling at him not to do it while they were around! ) and my co-worker keeps calling me on my office phone and doing the same thing...and the meow! They're gonna give me nightmares...*sniffle*
 
Aw! Lol my dad and my friends keep doing that to me. The noise is just so creepy!

Scariest part? Hm...there was a lot...but I think I'm gonna say the bed part! 'Specially since my lungs hurt after all that screaming lol 😉 That really hurt....😛
 
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