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Grantes; it's not possible to make a movie anywhere near perfect, but
this one has been so misunderstood that I created an account and am
writing my first review ever in its defense.

If you don't like a movie that doesn't play by your rules (the
characters must develop, the scenes must be sequential, ghosts can't
leave their haunting grounds, any unresolved ending means a sequel...),
then buy tickets to movies you know you'll like instead of getting
disappointed and complaining. I don't mean to offend any of the readers
or reviewers that thought badly of the movie, but the overwhelming
negativity I found to be based more on false assumptions and adherence
to non-universal traditions

--spoilers ahead--

For those who didn't pay enough attention and got confused, here are
some things people missed that are a little essential for keeping up
with the plot (in no particular order or completeness): Yoko's jaw,
which she is later without, is the bloody chunk in the attic. The
gasoline used to burn the house was brought in by the detective. The
lighter--also to burn the house--was not the heroine's, it was her
boyfriend's (who we did in fact see smoking in the Buddhist mourner
scene). The spirits are not ghosts as we think of them; other reviews
have gone into depth to explain that. The creepy hair is a Japanese
spirit trademark, like doors closing themselves in American horror.
Bill Pullman's suicide is explained very thoroughly throughout the
movie, if you remember all the parts and link them together.

Another thing I would like to point out is the extreme differences
between theater traditions around the world. Americans prefer a
plot-based, character-driven experience. In Native American
storytelling, in contrast, characters routinely change their names and
appearances. Japanese kabuki theater purposefully avoided plot
entirely. What I'm trying to say is that this movie is very easy to
misunderstand when viewed in the American horror paradigm. There are
thematic materials and deep traditions all over the place, and it
really is a scary movie if you get into it and ignore the
schoolchildren around you laughing at it, but if you don't pick up on
(or at least accept) the deeper meanings then a lot of the experience
is lost. The movie was (re)made for American audiences, so it isn't
quite as quirkily Japanese as it could be; so just let the
idiosyncrasies draw you in and then scare you ####less..

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super scary!!! that will give a heart attack!!.

"The Grudge" is a remake of Shimizu's own series of popular Japanese
horror films. Shimizu knows he is not dealing with anything new, so he
does what any intelligent person would have done in his place: he
forgets logic and concentrates in giving viewers a fun ride. He uses
commonly known clich.