THE GRUDGE   
Director:Takashi Shimizu
Writers (WGA):Takashi Shimizu (film Ju-On: The Grudge)
Stephen Susco (screenplay)
Release Date:22 October 2004 (USA)
Genre:Horror / Mystery / Thriller more
Tagline:It never forgives. It never forgets.
Plot Outline:An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Plot Synopsis: (warning! may contain spoilers) Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an exchange student in Tokyo, Japan, is sent to her first assignment to care for an elderly American woman whose nurse didn't show up for work. After getting lost, Karen finally locates the house. The front door is open and Karen enters the home, and finds the house in a mess and apparently empty. Soon she discovers her patient Emma (Grace Zabriskie), the American woman who has been lost in a catatonic state for years, lying on the floor in the downstairs bedroom. Karen takes care of Emma and begins to clean up the house. Karen hears a noise upstairs and finds a young boy and black cat in a closet. She calls her boss and tells him the strange things that she has found. A supernatural force, 'the Grudge,' begins to frighten Karen and Emma, and then we have a flash back of the evil that was born in that house several years earlier. 'The Grudge' is known in Japan as a curse of one who dies in the grip of a powerful rage. Anyone who encounters the grudge is cursed to die horribly.
Review by 
Lucinda Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea Duvall, William R Mapother, Bill Pullman
Director: Takashi Susco
Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Taka Ichise, Rob Tapert
Composer: Christopher Young
Well the movie is about Karen, a young student who is living in Japan with her boyfriend. Karen and her friend Yoko work as a home health care nurse. But Yoko doesn't show up for work one day so Karen was sent to take over. As Karen arrives at the house everything seems normal. She quickly finds out that's not the truth. Finding dead bodies in the attic and being chased by things out of the ordinary.
My thoughts about the movie well I think it could of been better. I found myself getting lost and not understanding what was going on. I have watched the movie several times and to be honest I still don't really understand everything that happen. I also think the money spent on special effects was wasted. pretty much i think the plot was ok but it just didnt scare me. so on a scale from 1-10 I give it a 3.
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