If you're in the mood for a good scary movie - one that mixes old fashioned frights with a novel storytelling approach - you need look no further than "The Grudge 2."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 3, 2021

Takashi Shimizu telegraphs scares to the point of numbness. Peek under a table? There's the boy! The room a bit too quiet, is it? It's the girl! All that's frightening are the actors' pained facial expressions, suggesting an epidemic of farty indigestion.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 25, 2010

It's a random series of attempted frights that fails at every turn.

| Apr 29, 2009

Seven films later, with the conventions of throat croaking and neck cracking having moved into camp, it's amazing that Shimizu can still find new ways to turn the old screw.

| Apr 20, 2008

Repetition is the death of horror.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Pale-faced, staring, mute Japanese kids strike back.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

...nothing more than a needless rehash of its predecessor...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 12, 2007

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| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2007

The Grudge 2 starts out ridiculous, then gets boring, then irritating.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 30, 2006

Those who didn't find The Grudge scary will be disappointed with The Grudge 2 -- it's almost a repeat of the original film but with new victims.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The Grudge 2 is one of the more flavorful American J-Horror adaptations I've seen (and I've seen 'em all), well-paced and, at times, genuinely scary.

| Nov 20, 2006

Every moment of intended terror becomes a slapstick gem, carefully constructed boo frights hit with the hilarity of Lucille Ball stepping on a rake

| Nov 10, 2006

... Lazy, unimaginative storytelling that tries to fool the audience into thinking it's clever.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 5, 2006

Rather than following the story of the Japanese sequel Ju-on 2, the English-language Grudge 2 is based on an original script by Stephen Susco. Unfortunately, there isn't much about it that feels all that original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2006

Japanese director Shimizu may be the only director in history to have helmed a pair of Hollywood remakes of his two biggest hit films and managed to screw up both of them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2006

just a quick scare and then back to the nonsensical and diluted story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 26, 2006

Low calorie horror, it's propped up by set-piece shocks familiar from any of the other five incarnations of Ju-On: The Grudge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2006

Please let's pull the plug on this insanely over-promoted, over-rated horror brand.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2006

Despite some nifty Japanese style tricks and ghostly illusions this isn't scary. It's muddled, same-old mayhem, just with a more international cast going crazy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2006