Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)

This is one case where I'm actually looking forward to the remake -- a Hollywood-style imposition of commercial structure on writer/director Takashi Shimuzu's imagination could only help him. Well-directed with some nicely atmospheric scenes early on, but the film's stubborn rejection of any form of sense eventually torpedo it. It's impossible to care about the deaths of any of these characters if we find out nothing about them -- basically what we have here is an avant-garde slasher film.

Grade: C