Ju-on: The Grudge (Ju-on) (2002)
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Synopsis
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Cast
- Megumi Okina
- Misaki Itô
- Misa Uehara
- Yui Ichikawa
- Kanji Tsuda
- Kayoko Shibata
- Yukako Kukuri
- Shuri Matsuda
- Yôji Tanaka
- Yoshiyuki Morishita
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- Mar 24, 2018
Kayako can't control her curse. She's trapped in boundless suffering and is begging for people to help her boy, but no one can. Toshio is scared and wants his cat and his Mom. Any Mom. "Are you my Mom?". Toshio, cold and tragic. A feral sprite. He won't KILL you, but if…
ScumbalinaSep 10, 2017And now, a list of things I will no longer be doing after seeing this movie: -Playing peek-a-boo -Sleeping with the covers on -Watching security camera footage -Taking the stairs -Taking the elevator -Watching any kind of television -Eating at fancy…
Quinn BaileyOct 2, 2021Kayako’s death rattle is going to be my new voicemail greeting from now on. That’ll teach spam callers.
CinemaVoid 🏴☠️ - Jun 21, 2024
Haha, that’s the Japanese boy from Scary Movie 4.
KylerJul 21, 2019Lightning in a bottle. There's a lot here that shouldn't work. Ju-on: The Grudge doesn't really have a story, outside of the gradually unfolding explanation as to what happened to Kayako in order to turn her house into a gateway to Hell. The budget is barebones, which…
Herb GallowOct 13, 2016ghost lure & ghost loop & a ghost is a LOOP. i think i love these ghosts because they are always repeating the same things over and over. they had a bad experience in life and it bound them inexorably to orbiting that same moment for all of time. and when i woke up…
clare - Oct 15, 2022
Insane that this came out 20 years ago, considering it’s scarier and creepier than half of what’s released nowadays. The final death rattle is still spine chilling.
Joe AMar 5, 2025Whenever the creepy little boy isn't on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's the creepy little boy??"
David SimsJul 11, 2023Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Metacritic Metascore: 48 IMDB: 6.7 91/100 Opening Text: When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage, a curse is born. J-horror doesn't mess around with jump scares and loud noises—it crawls under your skin and sets up camp there for weeks.…
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- Kent-Roger Nymoen dislikedJu-on: The Grudge
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Morgan lovedJu-on: The Grudgea little bit goofy and can be hard to follow sometimes with the non-chronological story but it was really cool and i like the ghosts so it was a fun watch, especially in a group
cool guy lovedJu-on: The Grudgei love kayako and toshio sm i could marry kayako and fix her and we could be a happy family
- Michael is "meh" onJu-on: The Grudge
On one hand I really enjoy a lot of the concepts and the structure of the film, but on the other hand each story ends with the ghosts just killing the character and after a while it gets old. I never really found the film to be scary, except for the sounds the ghosts make. 5.5/10
MovieDaddy likedJu-on: The GrudgeWhile it makes a good case to be considered an all-time great, I fear this one doesn’t age as well as many would like to admit. Sound plays a bigger part than other mise en scene, but the story isn’t as solid as one would hope to truly get under your skin.
CvptvinHowdy likedJu-on: The GrudgeThis one is conflicting because some of the scenes were actually creepy, but others were goofy, so it breaks tension unintentionally. I'd say this one is more effective than the remake but still not that far off.
- HauntandHorror lovedJu-on: The Grudge
I can’t believe that I’ve never seen this!!! Wow!! Like if it wasn’t bad enough the American version messe me up, this was crazy and so good!
Dreykarr lovedJu-on: The GrudgeThis movie makes me scream, no movie makes me scream more than this one. I will always remember it and it will always haunt me
Chris Stall is "meh" onJu-on: The GrudgeWhile I like the look of the ghosts, it was too slow between the pop scare moments. Too bad, because I wanted to love this.
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Metacritic
Basically, what you have in Ju-On is a collection of effectively scary sights and sounds - sound effects play a huge part in rolling that chill down your spine – and that's about it.
Eric Campos
Film Threat
A haunted-house one-trick pony.
Derek Elley
Variety
Ju-on never snaps into focus like a Go or a Pulp Fiction, and what at first registers as sloppy plotting starts to seem positively diabolical.
Dennis Lim
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