The Grudge 2 (Unrated Director's Cut)
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Actor: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Edison Chen, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah RoemerBrand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Grudge 2 (Unrated Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Feed Me
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not exactly an expert on the Spectral Realm, but I *do* know one thing: when it comes to hauntings, I'll take an American ghost over a Japanese one any day of the week.
The American ghost is pretty straightforward: it wants to grab your attention. It wants some face-time. It wants to get a place on your lunch calendar, maybe talk about better digs than the attic, certainly get a generous raise in its CGI allowance, that sort of thing. But give the American ghost a little quality time---you know, try to figure out why the damned thing shows up at 3 am in the upper servant's belfry flapping its be-sheeted arms and clanking around in its moldering leg-irons---and you're gonna be OK with the American ghost.
The Japanese ghost---that's another story. The Japanese ghost is mad as hell and it's not gonna take it anymore. It takes no prisoners. It doesn't even have time for CGI, or sheets, or even chains: that would just get in the way of its main order of business, which is twofold:
#1)unleashing ghost jihad on you; and
#2) ruining your [expletive].
In that order. Rinse, repeat. Sometimes the Japanese ghost gets so busy doing #2 that it doesn't have time for #1, & vice versa.
Rest assured, though, that unlike the American ghost, there is no negotiating, no ceasefire, no white flags, no peace talks, with the Japanese ghost. Ever. It will not be satisfied until you are:
a)fruitbat crazy insane in some institution with flickery lighting and lots of shadowy corners, where the Japanese ghost can show up at opportune moments to pay its respects;
b) dead in the most unpleasant way possible, including looking, post-necrosis, like you died taking a dump your Depends;
c)driven to take your life in some impressive fashion, like eating a blowtorch or gumming your lips and nostrils together with Krazy Glue.
d) all of the above
That's pretty much "The Grudge 2", which will work for you to the extent you're willing to kick back, take a load off, have a swig of piping hot sake, and relax about minor things like plot & acting.
"The Grudge 2"---which is an American remake of the, um, original sequel, only the whole rationale for the remake eludes me, since the movie is shot by its original director Takashi Shimizu, takes place in Japan, and features a Japanese Ghost. Actually, it features a passle of 'em. But whatever: it's Exhibit A of the phenomenon we were just discussing, Nasty Japanese Ghost Syndrome.
Here's the plot, summed up, in a nutshell: this trio of plummy schoolgirls, on a dare, walks up to the house from Grudge 1, now all sooty-black from the fire, curled up on its haunches in some Tokyo backstreet, and the Thing looks damned Hungry.
Director Takashi Shimizu is a master when it comes to setting up shots of smoldering, quiet malevolence, and here the House practically breathes menace: "Feed Me".
So it's a haunted house flick. I mean, in the real sense of the word. a haunted house that sorta takes the whole "think global, act local", and turns it on its head. It exports. It mass markets. It's a consumer business with international shipping, baby!
I could bore you with plot---which jumps around through time and, whatever anyone else says, is perfectly easy to follow, unless you're a moron. Whatever: it's godawful scary. It's scary in a deep, dark, pungent, nasty atavistic way. What do I mean by that?
Let's step back. This movie requires a few ingredients: 1) watch it alone 2) in a dark house, maybe with the faucet, somewhere, drip drip dripping 3) after you watch it, you tuck yourself in for the night.
And then the film's deep, irrational, crazy nuggets of terror will come back to tuck you in, with big, warty, water-soaked clammy hands. To give you a little goodnight kiss. To ruin your sleep.
Why? Because the Japanese Ghost does everything you don't want a ghost to *every* do, especially if it's late at night, and there are dubious sounds out there. Think of it: you don't want the ghost to show up anywhere near your bed: the Grudge spook shows up under the covers. Under your desk. On *top* of your desk when you're hiding in the little cubbyhole, enabling you to get a good feel of its graveyard-cold ankle.
So that's it: "Grudge2" plays out like a demo-reel of all the most godawful shark-eye black widow venom hornet sting nasty scariness you can imagine, and it will work if you just lay back and let the spooky, creepy crawly malevolence just roll over you.
Creepy & deliciously menacing, Grudge 2 is well worth checking out in the dark, and brings an entirely new meaning to the phrase "House Hunting".
JSG
Summary of The Grudge 2 (Unrated Director's Cut)
IN TOKYO, A YOUNG WOMAN IS EXPOSED TO THE SAME MYSTERIOUS CURSE THAT AFFLICTED HER SISTER. THE SUPERNATURAL FORCE, WHICH FILLSA PERSON WITH RAGE BEFORE SPREADING TO ITS NEXT VICTIM, BRINGSTOGETHER A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELATED PEOPLE WHO ATTEMPT TOUNLOCK ITS SECRET TO SAVE THEIR LIVES.Similar DVD Movies
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