The Grudge

A master of atmosphere, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu leads his audience along on a celluloid leash to his pitch-black attic of horror, inviting each hair on the back of your neck to stand up.

Slightly less frightening than the original, but it's still a scary psycho-horror that effectively replicates its bleak and crisp shocks.

A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic.

Like a good horror movie, the images, jolts and artistically directed disorientation will keep your stomach clenched...Like a bad one, it doesn't make a lick of sense.

It isn't frightening. Sometimes, in fact, it's laughable.

The overdetermined approach preempts character shadings or social subtext-just compare Hideo Nakata's original "Ring," which tapped its dread from viral-replicant mass culture and its pathos from a broken home, or Nakata's "Dark Water," which channeled the sorrow, guilt, and paranoia felt by a young divorcée mired in a custody battle.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, the nominal star, has been in her share of horror movies, and all by herself could have written and directed a better one than this.

Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy and woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Not the greatest film, though seriously not the worst. I'd say Sarah Michelle Gellar really is the scene stealer, besides... you know, the ghosts.

Being very similarly edited to the Japanese movie may seem like cheating, but it still shows something spooky.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Un remake que no es ni la mitad de aterrador de lo que fue su versión original, el hecho de que ambas versiones compartan al mismo director no dice mucho, además, haber puesto a Sarah Michelle Gellar sólo hace que este Remake sea aún peor ya que es una horrible actriz.