THE GRUDGE

Scifind.co.uk rating - 4 - out of 5.

Reviewed By: Paul Mount

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman, William Mapother,

Aieee!! THE GRUDGE is bloody terrifying. I’m a big tough bloke and I don’t scare easily but this tense, sparse remake of the classic Japanese horror JU ON: THE GRUDGE had me leaping about in my seat and, if I’d been on my own, very probably squealing like a girl when the scary stuff happens - which is frequently.

Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar, finally earning her acting spurs on the big screen) is a naïve young exchange student relocated to Japan with her boyfriend Doug (Jason Behr from the underrated cult TV series ROSWELL). Karen’s a trainee care worker who becomes inextricably linked with something creepy and supernatural - quite literally a grudge which reaches out from beyond death - when she is assigned to look after a mad old woman living in a big creaking house. Something nasty’s lurking in the house and, surprisingly early in the movie, it looks as if