Karen Davis is an American exchange student in Tokyo doing care work. She is sent to a house to look after an elderly woman whose previous carer did not show up. The house is a mess, there is a boy in a cupboard taped shut, and something in the attic makes a croaking noise. The Grudge is a Japanese film remade by its own director with American actors, in the same house, and it keeps the thing that made Ju-On work: the curse does not care who you are.
What Happens In The House
The film is told out of order, following each person who entered the house: the American family who bought it, the estate agent, the detective, the professor played by Bill Pullman whose scene opens the film. Kayako Saeki was murdered there by her husband. Her son Toshio was drowned. Their rage stayed. Kayako comes down the stairs on her elbows, appears under the bedsheets, and climbs into a shower stall. Nobody who enters the house leaves the story alive.
Why It Was Bigger Than The Ring In Some Ways
It opened at number one in October 2004 and made 187 million dollars on a 10 million dollar budget. Takako Fuji played Kayako in the Japanese films and here. Sarah Michelle Gellar was at the end of Buffy. Sam Raimi produced it. The sound Kayako makes was Shimizu’s own voice, slowed down.
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