2002 · horror
Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)
Directed by Takashi Shimizu1h 32m2002
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
Our read: Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) (2002) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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