Sarah Michelle Gellar Movie:

		List Price: $14.94		Label: Sony Pictures Salesrank: 67429 Released: June 14, 2005
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: UMD for PSP

Editorial Review:
From filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider-Man® Army of Darkness) and acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Shimizu comes a terrifying tale of horror in the tradition of The Ring and 28 Days Later. Sarah Michelle Gellar (TV s Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) stars as an American nurse who has come to work in Tokyo. Following a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths she encounters the vengeful supernatural spirit that possesses its victims claims their souls then passes its curse to another person in a spreading chain of horror. Now she must find a way to break this supernatural spell or become the next victim of an ancient evil that never dies but forever lives to kill.System Requirements:Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar Directed By: Takashi Shimizu Running Time: 91 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: UMD Genre: HORROR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396113350 Manufacturer No: 11335

Description of The Grudge [UMD for PSP]:
It's not the scary hit that The Ring was in 2002, but The Grudge makes a similarly convincing case for American remakes of popular Japanese horror films. Barely a year passed between the release of Takashi Shimizu's creepy ghost story Ju-On: The Grudge and the production of this American remake, set in Tokyo and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in her first post-Buffy horror film. About the only significant difference between the two films is the importing of a mostly-American cast (including Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall and Grace Zabriskie), but The Grudge was reconfigured (by screenwriter Stephen Susco) to allow Shimizu to refine and improve the spookiest highlights of his earlier version, which enjoyed previous incarnations as a short film and two made-for-Japanese-video features. Surprising box-office analysts with a $40 million opening weekend, The Grudge may disappoint hard-core horror fans because it lacks gore and graphic violence, but as a creepy tale about a very haunted house, it's guaranteed to send a few chills up your spine. --Jeff Shannon

The Grudge [UMD for PSP] Reviews:
The Japanese Director fixed the movie
2009-11-10 - If you thought the first one was ok, then you will love this. I have never seen a directors cut so different than what I saw on the big screen. He made it more creepy with the Japanese flair. This should have been released originally, and they would have had more fans!

Extremely frightening
2009-09-17 - This is an extremely entertaining movie for those that wish to be scared. Quite similar to The Ring but I have to admit that in overall Grunge is even better (I loved The Ring). The main difference between the two movies is that The Ring contains more plot while The Grudge concentrates on scaring the XXXX out of you. There are some very memorable scenes in this movie. Particularly unpleasant is a surveillance camera scene with a Japanese police officer seeing the ghost looking at him through the camera (reminds of the "girl going out of the TV screen in The Ring). Sarah M Geller is probably not "optimal" as the leading actress in this movie, although this may depend on the fact that I always associate her with the "less serious" Buffy series. Highly recommended to people with strong nerves.

THE PLOT IS MUDDLED, BUT THE CREEPINESS IS GENUINE
2009-06-25 - The characters in THE GRUDE have little, or no purpose ( except as fodder for the demon, or vengeful spirit ), in this elliptical tale that earns its scares without resorting to the usual splatterfest methods so prevalent in most American horror movies. Linearity, and coherence are pretty much missing in the storyline, however, and make viewing the film a liitle hard at times. It's not a great movie, but it does have it's moments.

Grudgingly
2008-11-03 - I'd watch it again, but it's not something i'd waste money on. I'd see it, just for a good story, but borrow it from a friend or somethin'.

A Seriously Creepy Knock-off of 'The Ring'
2008-10-31 - There's no question that Grudge is more interested in scares than substance, but in a genre currently dominated by 'torture-porn' the film's determined creepiness is a welcome respite from gratuitous blood-letting.

In many ways Grudge is just an expansion on the scares offered by 'The Ring'. You have a similarly creepy little girl who spends her days in the afterlife scaring random strangers (literally) to death. She's joined by her slightly less creepy little brother *EDIT , and together they unleash their malice upon the world - until Sarah Michelle Gellar arrives on the scene.

*EDIT it seems I "should have known" this is actually a grown woman, and the little boy is her son. Also, they do not scare at random. No, these are well organized, probably unionized, hauntings. EDIT*

The infamous gurgling sound and huge round eyes are effectively creepy additions to the line-up, and the film does a good job of creating an atmosphere of unease and isolation. Why the poor little children have a grudge is revealed piecemeal, but essentially there's nothing to the plot we haven't seen before.

A good horror film with some genuinely scary moments, this makes a good addition to a horror fan's collection. DVD includes making-of, commentary, and 'fear response in film' extra.