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The Grudge is a new horror movie, being a remake of the Japenese film Ju-on, and it doesn't really have a plot. Here the idea: Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a stupid living in Tokyo with her boyfriend (Jason Behr of Roswell fame) and she has to do volunteer work looking after people.
The old woman who she's meant to be looking after when her usual carer goes missing lives in a house where some ghosties live. It's meant to be about a curse, but it's not really, basically everyone who goes into this scary house dies. That's all the plot there is! Saying that it makes it really good because you never really know why the scary shit is happening. It isn't a very gory film, the horror is more psychological. If you liked The Ring you'll like this, I think it was scarier, but Tomety and Kim reckoned
Because the ghosts come after the characters wherever they are, in bed, on a bus or at work, it'll make you really scared when you get home, you'll be expecting to see dead Japanese girls in your bed. The creatures make a noise which will soon become as trademark as the line 'sevvvvvven days'.
The Grudge really freaked me out, and it'd be the perfect horror movie if it had a bit more plot.
I give The Grudge 4 out of 10