Check out this awesome looking film, and if your really bold enter the website.
It's gonna be freaky!

It's a cool site, but it kinda loses the effect when the flash has to keep loading.

So it's not a perfect world

but yeah it kinda does, I want to make a site like that for my film one day. one day... soon...

Here in San Francisco/Oakland, they're playing the original japanese movie The Grudge was based on. Here's a link to it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364385/

So check your local theatres, and see if maybe they're playing the original. That way you can compare the two, and see what changes they made to fit the different styles/audiences involved with American and Japanse movies. (Since it's directed by the same director)

Here's a link to see if the movie is playing near you:

http://movies.channel.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=17015


one last thing, don't let this fool you into thinking Sam Raimi had much to do with it, his title is Executive Producer, which usually means money, and not so much creative control. Similar to saying Quentin Tarantino Presents with the movie Hero

I'm attending the original THE GRUDGE in the Calgary Film Festival this saturday. I'll tell you guys how the original was.

To RFranco: Yes, but all Quentin did was import the film and give it to Miramax. The movie was already made. i think Raimi has some influence because he's the exec. producer.

I'm sure he had some input somewhere along the line, but the credit of executive producer is usually just of the person the writes the checks and gets the ball rolling.

If he had really been involved, I don't think he'd credit himself as executive producer when he was actually a producer. They're two very different things they're crediting.

I never saw the japanese original, but i just watched the american verison last night and thought it was great. It was the most fun i've ever had watching a scary film. IT didnt haunt me for days after i left the theatre or anything, and pretty much every scream in the film was a "something jumps out of the closet" type thing, but there were a ton of those, and everyone of them worked. The sound design in this film is incredible, the audio was responsible for about 75% of the experience. There were hardly any real special effects, and that really helped bring it above its lackluster horror breathren. I wasnt concentrating on the crazy tendrils and cg gore, just a scary ass kid and his insanley creepy mother. When i saw it the theatre was full of teenage girls that screamed their heads off at every boo, so that probobly added alot to hte fun factor, but overall it was a great thriller flick.

I haven't seen the original either (though I will look for it now), and just saw the new flick. I did enjoy it and the jumps and bumps make you flinch in the right way.

I won't give anything away, but I did not like the ending which (for me) took away from the overall experience.

It was still scary and I agree with Particle that there was minimal CG - just good, old fashioned, creepy visuals!

Now this flick was pretty dog gone good, if "Ghostly figures/creepy kids" gets your crank turned (IE: The Ring) you should enjoy it.

I too was VERY dissapointed with the ending Mark. It was almost a "We are running out a film stock, gotta end here> type ending, but a solid ride none the less.
R. Michael

I also was dissapointed with the ending to "the Grudge". I thoroughly enjoyed the film but the ending just wreaked of a sequal. Man I thought they could have tied it off a just a bit instead of forcing all to be answered in the next grudge movie.

And if they have a GRUDGE sequel, it can't be nearly as good as the original, but a horde of cattle will go to watch anyway!

I was basically disappointed with this one. I believe Sam Raimi could have done WAY better. Plus the ending sucked. But I didn't turn it off, because I love Sam Raimi.