Year: 2002
Plot: "In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to substitute at a local residence, she is cursed and chased by two vengeful spirits. Each person that lives in or visits the house is murdered or disappears."
Now I was sort of putting this off. I have seen the remake and didn't want to watch something redundant. Takashi Shimizu had after all said that the reason he wanted to change the second American Grudge was so that he wasn't making another movie over again. I'm sure you can see my problem here. If Shimizu felt he was making a movie again, then the remake should be pretty much the same, right? Well not exactly.
This movie did surprise me. For the first half it was all pretty much the American remake, albeit tweaked to allow American actors into the plot, but still relatively the same. The later half however was different. Some of its elements ended up in the American Grudge 2.
This version was scarier than the remake to me. The first half wasn't, but I attribute that to the fact that I had already seen the remake. I did however find the later half of this movie to be scary. I knew certain things were coming, but I still jumped. The ending where Kayako is coming down, same as in the remake, I just couldn't look away. I wanted to, but couldn't. It is kind of creepy how she just stares at the camera as she is coming down.
I also have to say that this movie just made some already creepy places creepier. The empty public bathroom is one of them. Did you really have to put Kayako in that sort of place? Yeah, I know you already did. Now I am going to be even more creeped out at work. (I am a Secretarial Assistant at an Alternative school.)
This is the one of the series (and even including remakes) that deserves the most recommendations. Even if you have seen the American remake, you won't be disappointed with this one. It makes more sense without all the American actors, and the ending just seems creepier.
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