The Grudge Critic Reviews

It's enough to send you home with jiggly knees and a tummy ache.Read the full review

Slightly less frightening than the original, but it's still a scary psycho-horror that effectively replicates its bleak and crisp shocks. Read the full review

It's effectively frightening. It's just not the kind of frightening that stays with you very long, unless of course someone decides to make the same movie . . . yet again.Read the full review

A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic. Read the full review

At least the horror premise here has a hook - a house can spread its curse like a plague to adversely affect all who enter.Read the full review

Less a film than a terror delivery system, The Grudge repeatedly shows off Shimizu's technical chops, but never gives viewers a reason to care about or identify with the victims. Read the full review

Takes a leaf from the "Psycho" handbook and abandons its star for stretches here and there.Read the full review

Less scary than creepy, The Grudge may have lost some oomph in the translation from Japanese to English, and the desire for a PG-13 rating probably muted the violence and perhaps the scares. Read the full review

Shimizu can't quite pull everything together, trying to get off easy with a bargain-bin twist ending that most of the audience will see coming by the time the pile of corpses reaches double digits.Read the full review