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Monday, October 21, 2013

Ju-on :The Grudge October Movie #9 (Movie #94)


Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)


Always wanted to watch this and now I am.  Behind on movies so no intro and I’m doing this while I watch, deal with it.  The movies opening text said something about when a person dies in the middle of a rage, a curse is born and that possibly is called.  This chick named Rika works at a social welfare place and is given a crappy first case.  She shows up at the house of an old woman that is covered with trash.  Either she is really lazy of needs the help.  The old lady gets a sponge bath and then Rika gets to cleaning.  She does some poking around and hears a noise coming from a room.  She walks into it and the closet door has been heavily taped shut.  The noise was that of a cat.

The tape was probably there for a reason but she pulls it down anyway.  Rika opens the door and finds the cat and a child locked inside.  Rika goes back downstairs to see the old lady who is his grandma and she keeps repeating “I told her like you said please stop tormenting me”.  Then a black ghostlike figure with red eyes swoops down on her and causes Rika to faint all while the boy watches.

Things fade out and the text Katsuya appears on the screen meaning this movie must be broken down into segments maybe by each character.  This time it seems to focus on the daughter in law of the old lady.  That must be Katsuya.  She hears a noise and checks out what’s going on.  She follows the cat and a ghost white little boy into a room screams.  Hours go by and her husband walks in and is looking for her.  He finds her in a bed kind of paralyzed, possibly by fear.  The little kid runs behind him while he calls for an ambulance.  That boy is so sneaky.  He pops up again and makes a cat noise.  The wife then looks like she dies.

Next the wife’s sister walks in.  The house looks like garbage and only the dude seems to care, which is strange for a bunch of Asians.  The sister bumps into the husband who just keeps saying, “That’s not my baby.  That’s not by baby” leaving me to believe that possibly the ghost kid isn’t his baby.  His acts really trippy like this has bothered him for a while and kicks the sister out.  I finally realized that his name is Katsuya and he walks into a room where a different ghost, this time of a girl, looks out of a window.

 Ghosts must all be in college


Katsuya’s story is over and we move on to the sister Hitomi’s.  It starts with her leaving from work and calling to say she is on her way over.  In the bathroom she gets a call from the sisters cell and all you can hear is a croaking before it’s disconnected.  Before leaving, she sees a ghost like woman come out of the stall next to hers.  That’s why you want to avoid public bathrooms.  Hitomi gets a security guard to check it out and watches him get sucked away by the shadow ghost thing on the cam.

No big deal though so Hitomi heads to her apartment.  Something cool happens in the elevator where you see the little boy out the window as she goes up each floor.  She calls brother in law over because she’s freaked out and he shows up at her apartment except when she opens the door, no one is there except for the phone croak again.   Weird stuff is happening to her.  She puts on the TV to ease her mind and the lady on there got all distorted.  To top things off, it was making the croaking sound again.  Hitomi hides under the covers and is joined by the ghost girl.  End of that segment.

The next one is called Toyama and I have no clue who that is.  Rika’s boss stops by the house to check on her and finds the girl in shock not moving and the old lady dead.  He calls the police who find Katsuya and the wife dead in the attic.  The cop stops in on her at the hospital and tells her that the family who lived there had no kids so who whoever she saw wasn’t their kid.  The police look into a report and find out that a guy killed his wife in that house and the ghost boy was their kid.  The wife’s body was found in the attic.  So things are starting to make a little sense.

Some guy is talking to his daughter when the police come up to him and ask him some questions.  His name is Toyama and he was the cop who was in charge of the case from the last paragraph.  Rika talks to the detective some more who tells her that the boy was never found.  Also someone stumbles upon Rika’s boss handcuffed to a sink dead and Hitomi is missing.  Things aren’t great for this family right now.  Toyama watches the security footage from the dead rent-a-cop and sees a black figure walk out of a room and stare right into the camera.  Still no real big scares.

Rika wakes up that night to the boy sitting on her bed and the girl ghost leaning over her while croaking.  Toyama breaks into the ghost house with two whole cartons of gas and starts dumping them all over the floor.  It’s nighttime and he opens a door to see the house in daytime with a girl running out.  Coolest thing yet.  Same thing happens upstairs but it turns into a ghost room.  The two other detectives run in the house just in time to see the ghost girl climbing slowly down the stairs.

 You would think this would be scary but they just sit there.


The fifth segment is named Izumi.  She’s the chick that Toyama saw running down the stairs in the house.  I think she is Toyama’s daughter.  Two of her friends come over and she is looking a little bit like she might be the girl ghost.  Izumi tells them a story about how se went to a haunted house with three girls who are missing and saw them there last and feels like they are coming for her.  She freaks out again, the friends leave and they also notice that Izumi’s eyes are turning black in every picture. 

Izumi wakes up that night and the three missing girls ghosts appear and the original ghost girl sucks her away.  She appears as a ghost next to her ghost dad Toyama who died somewhere I guess.


ENDING SPOILERS
 
The last story is of Kayako, the wife.  She takes a shower and feels a hand on the back of her head but when she turns around no one is there.  We get back to Rika who sees the ghost boy at a restaurant.  Weird things happen to her like she dreams about being in a room full of black cats and her friend is called to the house of kid in her class who also happens to be the ghost kid so she has to Rika run over there to deal with that.  Rika shows up right as her friend is being dragged up into the attic.  The girl ghost is the guilty one and chases her around the house a little.  Rika stops by a mirror and see the ghost climbing out of her clothes but it’s nothing.  I’m pretty lost.  The girl ghost climbs down the stairs and is covered in blood.  The guy who killed his wife to start everything walks down the stairs now and kills her I guess.  Finally the empty town is shown and covered in missing posters meaning maybe the whole place is full of cat ghosts now.
 Scariness wiped away by bad haircut



Favorite Scene: Definitely when Toyama was walking around the house and opened the doors of daylight which probably was of the future too

Memorable Lines: Not really.

Rating: 6 5th Avenues.  I like what they attempted to do with splitting the story into each characters segment but when it comes down to it, the movie didn’t have any real scares.  Every once in a while the ghost would show up right next to one of the characters but that was it.  Also the ghosts are just people with covered in blue paint with black eye makeup.  The stories linked together pretty well but it was hard at times to tell when things were taking place.  Then again, I’m dumb so that could be it too.

Alternate Ending: I watched it on YouTube.  The director cut it because it was too long.  The original ghost dude wraps up Rika and she realizes that she is doomed to continue the ghost trend.  It’s a little better than a hand just being stuck out I guess.

What I would do if I was the main character: If I see a stupid looking girl slowly walking down the stairs trying to kill me I would probably kick her.  At least attempt to.  Lying down in fear isn’t a big help.

What happens in the sequel: I bought it when a blockbuster was going out of sale for a dollar so I’ll end up seeing it sometime soon.


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