I watch a lot of movies. And I’m here to use that tactical advantage to your advantage — and tell you about some more movies.
If you’re aware of movies at all, you’ll have heard of these by their American title, The Grudge — in the same way that the Ring films are about a young woman’s pain being projected into the world so hard they end up airing on TV, these are about the same thing happening with a house; a pain felt by the cosmos so hard that the place where it happened holds a, well, grudge. These original films are incredibly low-budget — but they pull off some great scares very effectively.
In this first part I’ll cover the following films:
- The short films 4444444444 and Katasumi
- The Japanese V-Cinema (straight to video) films Ju-On: The Curse and Ju-On: The Curse 2.
- The Japanese theatrical films Ju-On: The Grudge and Ju-On: The Grudge 2.
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