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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

More than just a bit confusing, to say the least. Jumping between couples and time also adds to the confusion. The film plays like a bunch of random ideas thrown into a blender and mixed together. The child character is oh-so-cliched, as are the 'stalking' images on the victim's photographs. During the climax the heroin is so passive, its as if she simply allows everything to happen without any resistance whatsoever. Yawn.

It's ok - some creepy images here and there, but overall seemed more silly than scary. cool effects though.

The Grudge remake in my opinion transcended the horror genre in the wrong direction, even though The Grudge itself was a quality film. Too often do we seen horror films with weak stories and its purpose is to execute its share of pop scares. The Grudge from what I remembered is the first film in theaters that had multiple pop-up scare scenes that made the viewer tense up. Now this technique in horror films is over-used and movies don't have general creepiness like 70's, 80's, and 90's films used. Unlike many of the horror movies I'm talking about The Grudge had a solid story, even if it lacked originality. The key to this film though was Sarah Michelle Gellar, a terrific looker and actress, who always delivers a great performance. The American Grudge is clichéd, an unnecessary remake, and started those pesky over utilized pop-up scares but it holds a special place in my heart, for being a movie that got me excited about horror movies.

Working in Japan, an American health-care worker discovers the home of her latest charge is the site of a terrible, ghostly curse and tries to stop it before it consumers her friends and co-workers.There's a lot to really like with this one as it gets a lot of right throughout here. One of the biggest issues, though, is the fact that as a remake it really doesn't do anything to help the story told from the original so that can hold this one down somewhat. By keeping the familiar story and the jump scenes along the way, this can make for a trying time here by being too similar for its own good and not really having a whole lot really changed in terms of fixing the storyline or the different plot points within this. Still, this familiarity does manage to bring about many positives including a far better pace than the original. There's far more life to the non-attack scenes and the burgeoning mystery about the ghosts within the house keep this one moving so it doesn't feel as though it takes a long time to get going or even between scenes. When the attacks really start coming in earnest throughout here, this becomes all the more enjoyable by building off such a solid foundation with those intriguing non-attacks keeping the film going. Likewise, those attack are quite enjoyable on their own merits as incredibly entertaining and chilling encounters, most notably the numerous encounters inside the house from the first encounter with the ghost inside the bedroom, the encounter in the bathtub as well as the flashback to the previous owner and the utterly fun finale that has a lot going for it by mixing action with the chills so well. That the other attacks outside the house are rather well done is another plus, from the office building ambush to the hotel encounter and to the spectacular encounter at the office with the deformed ghost makes for a rather solid series of encounters here to make this quite fun. The only place this stumbles is the final half-hour by detailing an affair that really drags this to a halt instead of charging through into a furious finale, not to mention really lowering the impact of the curse by putting too much background into it. That does manage to lower this one somewhat, but it's still got enough here to really make a big impact.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.