Is The Grudge Worth Watching?

The Grudge is a movie about a spirit that lives on long after it should have died and inflicts pain on all those who cross its path. Much the same can be said about the movie itself. Technically the fourth installment of the Grudge series that began in 2004, this newest iteration in a “sidequel” to the original, meaning it tells a heretofore untold story that takes place concurrently with the first movie. A woman who works in the cursed house before Sarah Michelle Gellar (from the original) quits and moves back to America, inadvertently bringing the curse home with her. The movie is told, confusingly and non-chronologically, across three stories that eventually and clumsily wrap into one another towards the end. While there is tension and jump-scares, the horror elements are lost in the confusing jumble of timelines and bland characters. Jon Cho does his best to lend the movie some credible acting, but there’s another character whose entire personality appears to be smoking cigarettes. On the whole, this movie offers nothing that the original doesn’t do better. The Grudge’s only saving grace is that it is only 94 minutes long.

Rating: D – Watchable, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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Movie Title: The Grudge

Release Date: 1/3/20

Genre: Horror

Where to Watch: Rent

Run Time: 94 minutes

Rating: R

Director: Nicolas Pesce

Starring: Jon Cho; Andrea Riseborough; Lin Shaye

Production Company: Screen Gems; Stage 6 Films; Ghost House Pictures

Distributed By: Sony Pictures

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