Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The acting in this movie is really good.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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

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.

this movie is a horror masterpiece, id seen the two American grudge movies first, and they impressed me, but somebody told me that the original was even scarier i had to check it out. the first time i tried to watch it on my own i turned it off after ten minutes because i was that freaked out, and i didn't even really see anything. but the movie has a very haunting and creepy atmosphere that grabs you, even though i had seen the remakes first, it took nothing away from this horror masterpiece. there are a couple of cgi shots here, but for the most part, the scares are very classic, and some moments in this, are scarily haunting, and stick with you. bottom line is you want a brilliant, scary horror movie, this is for you, i highly recommend

I saw the remake staring Sarah Michelle Gellar a few years ago and found it very creepy so when this version was on television I had to watch it to see how they compared. I'm not sure if it was because I'd already seen a version of the story or because I was ready to be scared but this time was was no where near as scared, it still provided a few hair raising moments though.The story opens with Rika, a young social worker being sent to a home where she finds an old woman, upon hearing a noise she looks upstairs and finds a cat in the cupboard as well as a small boy who she didn't notice at first, he says his name is Toshio. Before she can ask him anything else she hears a noise in the old woman's room and finds a strange shadow by the woman, it turns and looks at her leaving her terrified. What follows are a series of incidents each linked to the house some take place before Rika's story and others years afterwards, it appears that everybody who visits they finds themselves haunted by Toshio and the strange shadow and end up dead or missing.The episodic nature of the film seemed strange at first but there were subtle links between them such as mentioning the finding of Rika's body in one of the later chapters. Unlike a lot of horror films there is no gore and we don't actually see the victims die, the chills come from creating genuinely creepy situations, Toshio is particularly creepy even though he doesn't do anything more frightening than stare.