Movie Review – The Grudge by Tim Hannigan

A mother and son are brutally murdered in a modest home in Tokyo. Dying in the midst of a terrible rage, their spirits leave a curse on the home, and anyone who enters. Three years after the murders, the house is sold to an American couple and the husband’s elderly mother. The mother is being cared for by volunteers from the local school. Sarah Michelle Geller plays a student studying abroad who is sent to the house to fill in for another girl who did not call in after her first visit to the house. Visiting the house, she is exposed to the curse and, like anyone else who enters, is haunted by the young boy and his mother

If you’re looking for a story, or interesting plot twists this is not the movie for you. The movie is based on a very simple premise – put people in scary situations and do everything imaginable to make the audience’s skin crawl. The movie jumps back and forth showing the effect the house has had on the various people who enter it. Each segment deals with different characters haunted by the boy and his mom.