modmove » The Grudge https://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Fri, 08 May 2026 16:38:00 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 The Grudge Movie Review https://modmove.com/reviews/the-grudge-movie-review/ https://modmove.com/reviews/the-grudge-movie-review/#comments Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:16:52 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=10296 What does it take to scare a modern audience? Is it even possible to provide enough jolts to the system to get the job done. The Grudge takes an interesting but simple premise and attempts to ramp up the scare tactics enough to get through to a group of horror film aficionados that have been oversaturated by stimuli.

The film shares a storyline with the Japanese horror film Ju-On: The Grudge and the 2004 America remake of the same name. At its most basic, it’s based on a house that becomes attached to and haunts all those that enter it. This time there are individuals whose connection only become apparent as things progress.

 

 

Not short of star power, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin and Jacki Weaver are just a few of the actors involved. Andrea Riseborough plays the lead character Detective Muldoon and she tries hard to hit most of the right notes to build the terror. The movie’s structure limits what she can do.

Building a scary experience on things jumping out of the darkness at you and drilling your ears with crescendo after crescendo of eerie sound design only takes you so far. After that there is a need for the story telling to buttress those feeling of unease. The Grudge succeeds at establishing an unsettling feeling but falls short of delivering the big scare.

Rob Hudson
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]]> https://modmove.com/reviews/the-grudge-movie-review/feed/ 0 Watch the terrifying new trailer for The Grudge! https://modmove.com/news/watch-the-terrifying-new-trailer-for-the-grudge/ https://modmove.com/news/watch-the-terrifying-new-trailer-for-the-grudge/#comments Sun, 22 Dec 2019 16:35:13 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=9939 Once you enter, THE GRUDGE will follow you home.

Producer Sam Raimi brings us a twisted new take of the horror classic.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Grudge stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin with Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. With a screenplay by Nicolas Pesce and a story by Nicolas Pesce and Jeff Buhler, The Grudge is based on the film “Ju-On: The Grudge” written & directed by Takashi Shimizu.

 

 

The Grudge will be released in Australian cinemas January 30!
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]]> https://modmove.com/news/watch-the-terrifying-new-trailer-for-the-grudge/feed/ 0 Watch the new trailer for the hardcore new vision of The Grudge — in cinemas January 30! https://modmove.com/news/watch-the-new-trailer-for-the-hardcore-new-vision-of-the-grudge-in-cinemas-january-30/ https://modmove.com/news/watch-the-new-trailer-for-the-hardcore-new-vision-of-the-grudge-in-cinemas-january-30/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:07:40 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=9682 It will never let you go – producer Sam Raimi brings us a twisted new take of the horror classic.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Grudge stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin with Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. With a screenplay by Nicolas Pesce and a story by Nicolas Pesce and Jeff Buhler, The Grudge is based on the film “Ju-On: The Grudge” written & directed by Takashi Shimizu.

 

 

After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective tries to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.

The Grudge will be released in Australian cinemas January 30!
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