The Grudge (2020) Review
Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!
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As this movie began I actually had hope for a few fleeting minutes. Surprisingly, there is an attempt to make this a legitimate sequel to the American remake by showing a woman at the Saeki house, mentioning Yoko, and an appearance by Kayako. When they showed this, and the film flashing dates, I thought maybe--maybe--the filmmakers were about to bring everything full circle somehow, revealing something we never knew from the start perhaps. Maybe we would come to find out more about Kayako's motives or something. In fact, this movie even tries to simplify some of the issues of the franchise whereby explaining that the curse makes it so that everyone who enters the house across all time, past, present, and future, are all connected. The movie doesn't utilize this plot point whatsoever, but at least there was an attempt. Again, this led me to believe the events of this movie would somehow tie everything together. Nope.
So what do we actually get? We get a beat for beat retelling of the events we already know except tweaked in the weakest of ways. Instead of a husband killing his wife and drowning his son we have a wife killing her husband and drowning her daughter. What a change. Instead of a woman in the shower and the hand coming out the hair, it's a guy. Instead of a male detective it's a female one. Which, by the way, what the fuck happened to Andrea Riseborough? She was a super hottie in "Oblivion" and now she's playing her own grandma it would seem. Anyway, you get the gist of it; the changes are superficial and meaningless when we are seeing the same events reenacted. We never see Kayako again outside of crime scene photos so that's just fantastic. Oh, sure, there are a couple changes like some lady trying to assist in a suicide or the realtor being more pivotal to the plot but big whoop. The ending is significantly dumber so the filmmakers can take credit for that accomplishment at least, right?
Notable Moment: That little tease at the beginning with Kayako and the original house. Oh man, if only they kept these kind of ideas going throughout.
Final Rating: 4/10
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