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07/03/04
Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:38
Rotten:30
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: The film grows more repetitive as it goes on, and as a result, the scares lessen.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A volunteer home care worker, Nishina Rika (Megumi Okina), enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her... [More]
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Euhara, Yui Ichikawa
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Reviews for Ju-On: The Grudge
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06/24/06
Top CriticAs a film, it is at once too much a part of an overarching story and divided into too many episodes to be all of a piece. However, as a sustained collection of scare moments, it's a winner.
07/03/04
Top CriticUnsettling, but it's also fragmented and repetitive.
06/19/04
Let's put an end to the whole creepy scraggly-haired little girl looking through the tops of her eyes and making groaning sounds thing. This has to stop now.
07/29/04
While it's low on blood, it's high on the good stuff like dread, spooky atmospherics and tension.
07/23/04
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09/24/04
Top CriticUna buena mezcla de efectos sonoros y de ambiente de miedo.
06/27/04
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07/03/04
I haven't been this frightened during a movie since 'The Others.'
07/19/04
Ju-on has the ability to shoot chills up, down and, well, sideways across a viewer's spine.
09/23/04
Just like your average American horror franchise, Ju-On repeats the same handful of motifs over and over again, then appears to collapse into incoherence.
07/23/04
Director Shimizu fiills his spook quotient in unexpected, everyday situations.
08/15/04
A masterfully creepy little import, a deeply unsettling daisy chain of expanding terror.
07/26/04
Ju-On features more matted black hair than you'd find in the locker room shower drain of an Italian soccer team -- but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
04/01/05
The fragmented tale is a tangled mess, and the actors have no characterizations to play, apart from shrieking cowardice.
09/10/04
... succumbs to terminal stupid-itis, the very same ailment that's demolished plenty of other horror movies through the years.
10/25/04
It has a high creepiness quotient with a few good scares, but not much of a story.
08/13/04
Preys on your imagination, toying with your darkest feelings, and, in the process, it gets under your skin.
09/16/04
Horror fans will hold a grudge against writer/director Takashi Shimizu for conjuring some of the most frightening wraiths in cinematic history, only to dull their terror with repetition and a convoluted plot.
07/23/04
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