2020 Directed by Nicolas Pesce
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
Andrea Riseborough Demián Bichir John Cho Lin Shaye Jacki Weaver Betty Gilpin William Sadler Frankie Faison Nancy Sorel Tara Westwood Joel Marsh Garland Stephanie Sy Bradley Sawatzky Robin Ruel Ernesto Griffith Robert Kostyra Jim Kirby Lorrie Papadopoulos Derek James Trapp Junko Bailey David Brown Zoe Fish John J. Hansen Steven Ratzlaff
Doug Davison Roy Lee Joseph Drake Nathan Kahane Andrew Pfeffer John Powers Middleton Schuyler Weiss Brady Fujikawa Erin Westerman
Erick Geisler Raoul Bolognini Raúl Prado Virginia Cefaly Luca Saviotti Marie-Claude Lafontaine Maxime Lapointe Simon Beaupré Andrew Roshka Culley Bunker Chris Rogoski Andrew Degryse Matt Hansen Kalvin Kingdon
Chuck Robinson Sean Skene Dan Skene Rick Skene Kristen Sawatzky Krystle Snow BJ Verot Samantha Halas Tecla Scatliff
Michael Baird Jason Dotts Jeffrey A. Pitts Gabriel J. Serrano Joshua Adeniji Rustam Gimadiyev Bryan Parker Bogdan Zavarzin Edgar Ozolins Illia Popel
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Studio executives: We're gonna remake The Grudge and by remaking it, we need to stick to its Asian roots. Let's cast John Cho as Peter Spencer.
‘Grudge’ rhymes with ‘fudge’, which is appropriate - because this was messy, hard to digest and left me with diarrhoea.
Rotten Tomatoes: 20%
Metacritic Metascore: 41
IMDb: 4.2
35/100
Release Date: 03 January 2020
Distributor: Screen Gems
Budget: $10M
Worldwide Gross: $49.5M
Total Film Awards: TBD
2020 Ranked
2020 Horror Films Ranked
Detective Wilson: "I can still hear them... I can feel them with me!"
SYNOPSIS: A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.
This movie is a sequel and takes place during the same timeline of the 2004 version and the years 2005 and 2006. Only this time the curse has been brought to the US by the first nurse that was taking care of the elderly lady from the first movie. Anyways, I have to say the editing…
Let me start with the positives:
None.
And now, for the negatives:
- How can you make a film with 3 storylines, and yet, tell no story at all? No plot.
- Predictable, lousy, noisy jumpscares.
- Pretty much everything.
I don't even want to waste time with this garbage.
This was just a quick cash grab that utilises a well known franchise.
Serously, the people responsible for this movie to happen should be fired.
Fuck this film.
This film was incredibly choppy and the story was incredibly weak (what story?). It felt like random scenes strung together. Yes, I gave Cats a slightly higher rating.
There's a scene between Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver that is completely awful. Both actors are wonderful. In order for this to have happened the worst directing and editing had to have occurred.
This film is poor on all levels, except there are a few actors that make it somewhat okay (John Cho, the above mentioned ladies, and Andrea Riseborough). The fingers in the hair scene doesn't make any sense, but the worms coming out of the dead bodies' faces somewhat made this more tolerable visually.
Vegan alert:
There's a pig head in the meat section.
Vegan points:
Lorna Moody (Jacki Weaver) is cutting up carrots and other veggies.
another entry in taking genuinely idiosyncratic foreign horror images, placing them into the boring, predominant american horror mode (at the moment: polished haunted house shit) and calling it a day. still a bit jump scare heavy in its sequencing but at the very least this distinguishes itself from the one of the many profoundly dull wan spin-offs by taking its anxieties about mortality emotionally seriously—was surprised at the hints of character complexity regarding cancer, abortion and assisted suicide that pepper the physical manifestation of contagious pain at the film's center—and very briefly veering into italian horror trash gore occasionally. i mean it's not fulci by any means but i have to respect any movie that explodes a practical squib dummy of an old lady all over a hospital floor.
I kept putting this off because I enjoy The Grudge movies and was convinced I wasn’t going to like it based on what so many people were saying and one of these days I’m going to stop doing that because this ended up being pretty fucking good. I’m really having a hard time understanding why everyone hated it so much? It’s definitely better than the original totally teen-centric American remakes. Maybe it’s the wildly different tone this one has?
It’s dark and depressing for sure, but I love movies like that. I have a whole list of nothing but movies like that. No happy ending and honestly there’s barely a chuckle to be found the whole time. And it’s pretty…
❌28%
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This is everything that we don’t want from a January horror movie, yet we continue to get (for some reason). “The Grudge” does little to nothing right from a script-perspective. There is so much exposition within what ends up being a fairly straightforward story. While it’s easy to figure out where it is going; I have to give some kudos to whoever thought structuring it this way would be the best route. They tell these stories, both past and present, simultaneously in a way that never feels awkward. It genuinely makes it more interesting than it could have been, but even then, the film ends up struggling to catch your interest.…
1. It Wasn’t That Bad, You Guys Just Hate Horror Movies
2. If you would’ve taken the overarching story out of the film and kept it as just the smaller vignettes, it would’ve been a little more interesting and fresh, I’m sure.
3. Would die for queenie Lin Shaye
4. Basically just trying to imply that this completely fine movie deserves a half star just because “haha XD january release” is practically just a hate crime.
"The Grudge/Ju-On" has always been a strange franchise, equally filled with terrifying and comical moments and a purposely confusing timeline. The latter aspect is perhaps what makes the franchise less friendly to the general public compared to "The Ring/Ringu", for example.
While the out-of-order narrative can result in a surprising ending, with a satisfying crossover, it requires more patience from the audience that can easily get lost among so many characters. Too bad this is just one of the many problems with this new sequel/reboot.
Nicolas Pesce fills "The Grudge" with references (like the plastic bag that moves in the opening scene alluding to Takeo's death in the original films) that clearly shows that he did his homework and knows…
I dunno guys... I’m not the hugest fan of the American Grudge franchise outside of the first film, and I had zero expectations for this because of all the extremely negative reviews but if I’m being honest I think this is probably my second favorite (or favorite?!?) of the four?
I like the craft director Nicolas Pesce displayed with his previous efforts Piercing and Eyes of My Mother, and that visual flair showed up here as well—It’s stylish and engaging for the first two acts, loaded with a great cast who all put in solid performances. Plus it isn’t afraid to go bleak. With that said, theres a few issues here—it gets wonky in the last act and you can definitely…
