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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Nicolas Pesce

Producer:

Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka Ichise

Writer:

Nicolas Pesce

Release Date:

Jan 3, 2020

Runtime:

1hr 34m

Synopsis

A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.

Cast

  • Andrea Riseborough
  • Demián Bichir
  • John Cho
  • Betty Gilpin
  • William Sadler
  • Frankie Faison
  • Tara Westwood
  • Dave Brown
  • Lin Shaye
  • Jacki Weaver

Letterboxd User Reviews

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  • Jan 3, 2020

    Studio executives: We're gonna remake The Grudge and by remaking it, we need to stick to its Asian roots. Let's cast John Cho as Peter Spencer.

    815 Likes
    Hungkat
    Hungkat
    Jan 27, 2020

    ‘Grudge’ rhymes with ‘fudge’, which is appropriate - because this was messy, hard to digest and left me with diarrhoea.

    520 Likes
    Jim Caddick
    Jim Caddick
    Jan 8, 2020

    Rotten Tomatoes: 20% Metacritic Metascore: 41 IMDb: 4.2 35/100 Release Date: 03 January 2020 Distributor: Screen Gems Budget: $10M Worldwide Gross: $49.5M Total Film Awards: TBD 2020 Ranked 2020 Horror Films Detective Wilson: "I can still hear them... I can feel them…

    348 Likes
    @Mr. Like
    @Mr. Like
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    Jan 10, 2020

    This film was incredibly choppy and the story was incredibly weak (what story?). It felt like random scenes strung together. Yes, I gave Cats a slightly higher rating. There's a scene between Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver that is completely awful. Both actors are wonderful.…

    223 Likes
    Allison M. 🌱
    Allison M. 🌱
    Jan 5, 2020

    1. It Wasn’t That Bad, You Guys Just Hate Horror Movies 2. If you would’ve taken the overarching story out of the film and kept it as just the smaller vignettes, it would’ve been a little more interesting and fresh, I’m sure.  3. Would die for queenie Lin Shaye 4. Basically…

    180 Likes
    ava adore
    ava adore
    Aug 18, 2020

    AKA The Overqualified Character Actor Horror Olympics.

    162 Likes
    Matt Singer
    Matt Singer
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    Apr 13, 2020

    I dunno guys... I’m not the hugest fan of the American Grudge franchise outside of the first film, and I had zero expectations for this because of all the extremely negative reviews but if I’m being honest I think this is probably my second favorite (or favorite?!?) of the…

    137 Likes
    Ian West
    Ian West
    Jan 2, 2020

    ❌28% YouTube review - Click HERE 2020 list - Click HERE This is everything that we don’t want from a January horror movie, yet we continue to get (for some reason). “The Grudge” does little to nothing right from a script-perspective. There is so much exposition within what…

    126 Likes
    Austin Burke
    Austin Burke
    Mar 10, 2020

    "The Grudge/Ju-On" has always been a strange franchise, equally filled with terrifying and comical moments and a purposely confusing timeline. The latter aspect is perhaps what makes the franchise less friendly to the general public compared to "The Ring/Ringu", for…

    119 Likes
    Biscoito18
    Biscoito18
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  • Aarush
    Aarush is "meh" on
    The Grudge

    I re-watched it today just an hour ago because I forgot the story and thought it was good, Pretty boring and slow-paced movie tbh and ngl the scary stuff is also straight-up bad, but the story is still good so it's kind of average, but don't watch it if you value time,a 4.5/10 ig

    5 😂 🔥 3 1Y
    Yeuris Asencio
    Yeuris Asencio disliked
    The Grudge

    Do not watch this movie, the jump scares are bad and predictable. I literally was on my phone the entire movie out of boredom and skipped it near the end just to see how it ends💀

    2 3Y
    xggsharkx
    xggsharkx disliked
    The Grudge

    eh

    2 2Y
  • Mckenzie Wendell
    Mckenzie Wendell liked
    The Grudge

    People who don't like scary or eyes freak them out the eyes in this movie are horrifying. the rest is mediocre old horror vibe nice for an avid horror watcher.

    🔥 1 1Y
    boo
    boo disliked
    The Grudge

    that opening scene had me turning it off already 🤣🤣

    😂 1 3Y
    NathanDirector
    NathanDirector disliked
    The Grudge

    The Grudge (also known as The Grudge: The Untold Chapter) attempts a "soft reboot" of the American The Grudge film series, based on the terrifying Japanese Ju-On: The Grudge. Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, this 2019 supernatural horror film promises to delve deeper into the cursed house's…

    1Y
  • pumpkin
    pumpkin disliked
    The Grudge

    bye- as soon as i saw the “grudge” come out of the tub i was done😭😭idk who the hell that is but that’s not even similar to the one i grew up with. not scary at all and honestly just a poorly made remake, it could’ve at least still had the japanese influence. rate: 1/10

    2Y
    lisaoella
    lisaoella liked
    The Grudge

    There were a few scary scenes that were good to me. The monster (which is the first you see) looks very comedy like to me. Other than that I loved how the scenes were cut together. Good production quality aswell. It‘s a movie you want to have watched at least once.

    1Y
    Jayden Goodall
    Jayden Goodall disliked
    The Grudge

    Lin Shaye has set her name in horror. “The Grudge” 2020 never got a sequel for an obvious reason, it didn’t have much going for it. I found the technical and filmmaking strategies more interesting than the actual film. The original series was much better.

    2Y
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  • KC
    Kephren Clubbs
    #boring
    #snoozefest
    #predictable

    Don't waste ur money go to Mcdonalds instead not a joke

    AR
    Alexis Rangel

    Don’t waste your time not scary at all and very predictable

    LP
    Lindsey Polak
    #boring
    #predictable

    Disappointed

  • DR
    Daniel Reyes

    Worst movie

    EK
    Esther Khanutina
    #hilarious
    #predictable
    #notmyfave

    This is not even The Grudge. Save your money.

    JD
    Jose Delgado Castro
    #boring

    Story is all over the place

  • NT
    Nadia Tahir
    #boring
    #trash

    Waste of time and money..I’ve never seen something so stupid.

    MS
    Michael Sandoval
    #justokay
    #boring
    #notmyfave

    It was ok I won’t see it agin just not for me I like the old one’s lot better

    CT
    Chris Thompson
    #boring
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    #justokay

    this version should never have been made. extremely boring and not scary at all.

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Metacritic

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USER SCORE (119)

Mixed or average reviews based on 119 Reviews
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Mar 26, 2020

Three films into his career, Pesce is batting below average: Last year, he dropped his inventive sophomore stunner, Piercing, and demonstrated range and precision not as evident in his hollow, unrepentantly nasty debut The Eyes of My Mother. With The Grudge, the worst proclivities of that movie override the sensibilities of Piercing and combine with studio horror’s “just play the hits” ethos, resulting in one of the year’s most unpleasant releases to date.

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Andrew Crump
Paste Magazine
42
Jan 3, 2020

Sadly, The Grudge is an underwhelming entry in the long dormant franchise. This cursed production — delayed from release last year — hardly feels worth the wait, and is certainly not worth the price of admission.

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Joe Lipsett
Consequence
40
Jan 3, 2020

The movie's attempts to expand The Grudge's mythology generally don't work, and its stabs at being grittier and more realistic than the films before it are undone by its over-reliance on bloodshed and just plain unpleasant details for shock value.

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Sandy Schaefer
Screen Rant
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is The Grudge (2020) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as R, meaning that Under 17 requires an adult accompaniment.
How long is The Grudge (2020)?
The movie is 1hr 34min long.
What's The Grudge (2020) about?
A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.
Who's the cast of The Grudge (2020)?
  • Andrea Riseborough as Detective Muldoon
  • Demián Bichir as Goodman
  • John Cho as Peter Spencer
  • Betty Gilpin as Nina Spencer
  • William Sadler as Detective Wilson
  • Frankie Faison as William Matheson
  • Tara Westwood as Fiona Landers
  • Dave Brown as Sam Landers
  • Lin Shaye as Faith Matheson
  • Jacki Weaver as Lorna Moody
Who's the director behind The Grudge (2020)?
Nicolas Pesce directed The Grudge (2020).
Who produced The Grudge (2020)?
Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise produced The Grudge (2020).