Review – The Grudge

Here we have a Japanese movie with American actors and a plot so fragmentary that it barely holds together as an excuse for the hallmark booga-booga shots typical of the latest wave of Asian horror movie directors (indeed, I thought this was directed by the same guy who did Ringu until I signed onto IMDB and checked). As jump scares go, this is pretty good stuff. It’s just that a plot – or even characters that we get to know or at least care about a little – would have added some substance to the shocks. Mildly amusing