The Grudge

This movie will start playing at my local Rep. Theater on December 17th. I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.

I don't know his name, but you are correct. He is the main character in AUDITION. I'm not sure if you've seen SUICIDE CIRCLE; he's the main Police Detective in that film as well.

i saw the grudge on sunday night and was for sure freaked out by it. i actually liked it much more than the ring. ahem: plot issues. i'm curious to know what people are seeing as the main plot issues in the grudge, or what they really expected from a horror movie (besides gore and guts).

Just saw it for the first time. Saw it on tv. It was scarry enough. I would have pissed my pants if I had seen it in a theater.

I really like the original (it scared me awake for hours the night I saw it, and I was jumpy and skittish for days afterwards, especially in the shower). The remake's pacing was worse, the scares weren't nearly as effectively implemented (although I suspect in part I'd just gotten used to them), the American characters didn't fit...yeah, it was a mess.

Personally I'm of the opinion that horror movies work better if they don't attempt to explain things. I find lurking impersonal horrors in the night much creepier than just about anything they could come up with as an explanation. Not that a plot is *necessarily* out of place (I found "A Tale of Two Sister's rather labyrinthine plot offered quite the sucker punch in the last few scenes, which rounded off the creepiness rather nicely.), but if your goal is purely scariness, why risk sabotaging it with nonsense the way all too many horror movies do?

I dunno, but don't ruin it with an absolutely comical plot device where for some reason you have to look between your fingers. Man, that was retarded. Plus, the original (I still haven't seen the remake) used the same damn scare tactics over and over and kept changing characters. My thoughts at the end "Hahaha, what?"

Unrelated, I love it when people bump shit I don't even remember posting in.

...I don't even remember the finger looking. Was that in the original?

I saw the original and thought it was excellent. Scary stuff.
The remake, I dunno....I turned it off. Didn't scare me at all. I thought it was kind of silly actually.

However, I have a couple of friends (girlfriend included) who were extremely scared by it. My girlfriend won't watch anything similar in style to a Japanese horror flick after seeing it.

Suicide Circle (Club) is great. I really recommend it.

Yeah, at the end so I suppose I should have spoilered it, but since it made no sense whatsoever as far as I could tell I didn't feel the need. One of those crawling children things is coming towards her and she's trapped and then she flashes back to seeing all the different ghosts looking between their fingers so she does that too and she sees the attacking ghost differently for some reason and then she doesn't get attacked. Specifics are vague, but I really couldn't make that up.