Takashi Shimizu's first U.S. retread of his spooky JU-ON films, a tangle of interlocking tales of lives haunted by the bloody karma of a nondescript Tokyo house, lifted highlights from the entire series and wove them into a coherent, nightmarish whole. But THE GRUDGE 2 falls sadly flat, spreading the action over two continents and largely unscrambling the chronology of the overlapping stories, in the process destroying the delicate mix of suspense and icy inevitability that makes the JU-ON movies so chilling.
Shimizu opens with what's clearly meant to be a jaw-dropper: In a gloomy Chicago apartment, bullying Bill (Christopher Cousins) viciously berates unha...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins