'The Grudge'

going to see this at the matinee tomorrow. i'll let you all know how it is.
i've heard a review of it....it's pg-13, not much blood and guts but alot of BOO moments which is what i love. i also learned a week or so ago that this movie, like 'The Ring' is another interpretation of a japanese movie.
personally looking way forward to it and i'll let ya know when i get back.....but if someone has already seen it, opening night was last night, please let me know what you thought.

love, peace and chicken grease!

Trace

I saw it last night!!!
It was was scary.
I can handle blood and guts...but I can't handle the unexpected...and whoa...that was an intense movie!!!

maybe i'm too de-sensitized? there was only one part i jumped at and i can't even remember which scene it was.

it was good, yes. but a little too 'Ring-y' for me. even had the chick crawling the same way, looking the same way, etc. and sarah m gellar, she is not so good an actor, yes yes? could of done w/o her. but like one of the radio station's said, you at least didn't have to see her alot, lol.

i'd rent it, but i'd not pay a theater to see it again.

kinda wondering if 'saw' is even gonna be any good now :(

You guys must be fans of the scary movie scene. I don't care for them too much. I am way too skittish and jumpy. I never saw The Ring...but I have heard that The Grudge was just like The Ring. It's not that the movie was frightfully scary, I think it's just the unexpected that gets to me. Heck, even in my own house, when I'm vacuuming and my roommate comes home, I jump when I see her and let out a gasp because she wasn't there a second ago.

LOL...I'm such a wuss.

I saw The Grudge a couple days ago with Fos4snt and we both jumped a couple times. During the movie I said to her "why is that face scary to me?"....It was nothing but a white face, blacked out eyes, and a blacked out mouth...Whats so scary about that? I've seen and have had costumes scarier than that. Well it was a creepy movie and I thought it was an ok movie...Parts of it made me laugh, and get that creepy somthing is behind me feeling...o0o0o0o0o and the frog sound was kinda wierd...o0o0o0o....

Fos and I are going to go see SAW tonight. I hope it will be good...It Looks like a creepy FoCked up movie.

Ayeayeaye... I think I mimick my bebbe's opinion on The Grudge and also, like Trace, saw a buncha similarities to The Ring (which I think I enjoyed MORE)... but that was basically, really, that they were using some serious Anime influence in the 'fear factor.'

Both of them made me think of the PS2 game Ico and the witch in that. But, I do think anime fear is much more creepy and suspenseful than say, Dawn of the Dead kind of stuff, which I'm utterly desensitized to and simply LAUGH at.

I think, with The Grudge, I was much LESS connected to the characters in the suspense department than I was to the characters in The Ring.

Recently, while reading one of Orson Scott Cards short story compliations, he talked about why he doesn't go to see "gore" horror movies... it's because, essentially, he can't relate to the characters and feels no sympathy for them and their 'needless' deaths and dismemberments. I agree.

To me, movies like The Six Sense and Poltergeist were MUCH scarier, because the character development endeared them so much to me that I actually felt REMORSE and the deaths involved. I don't need gore to be scared. In fact, I'm often much more scared when there is NO gore. Like in the original Pyscho. :D Heck, I've NEVER been able to watch the end of The Shining. That movie scares the living Poooooo outta me. The Exorsist, though, simply made me laugh! (shrug) Dunno, truly, why that is...

~phos

i'm with you girly.

often times more than not, it's what you DON'T see that completely faaaareeeeeeks you out