Review of The Grudge

The Grudge (2004)
5/10
Like an overlong "Twilight Zone" episode
2 March 2005
Jason Behr and Sarah Michelle Gellar are a young American couple who have moved to live in Japan.

Gellar plays Karen, a young nurse who is called to a house to help care for an elderly lady who suffers from dementia and doesn't speak.

Within moments of entering the house, Karen starts to see creepy things happen and sees in a cupboard the house what she thinks is a young Japanese boy (with a terribly pale complexion!!).

The story then unravels to show the many other people who have come into contact with the house and when nasty things start to happen to them, things become clearer to what happened there in the past.

The story jumps back and too almost enough to make you sea sick, while it really doesn't do enough to either grip you, thrill you or even scare you that much. 45 minutes of material seems to be stretched over an hour and a half and the whole film generally feels like an overlong episode of the "Twilight Zone" Still watchable, but very over rated.
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