Best Horror Movies

The Grudge is the American remake of the Japanese horror film. What’s different about The Grudge is it’s non-linear story line. At first you think it’s three separate stories, then just two, and finally you realize that your seeing interspersed story lines from the past and from the present and they meet at the end of the film — filling you in on the curse and what’s happening. (Think Momento and Identity)

The scariest part of the story, and it is pretty creepy, is that because the curse born as a result of the first murder kills indiscriminately anyone who enters the house. Not immediately. Not in the same way. No matter what you do, you can’t outwit it. If you were in the house, it’s got your number. The scariest thing is most of the people involved were innocent — they had nothing to do with the original killing, when seeing the ghost while shocked, they tried to help. Yet, still they died. There might have been a way to avoid the curse but unfortunately, it didn’t get carried out.

There’s no CGI/FX — everything is low key and creepy. I’d almost say this is more psychological horror than monster coming to get you horror but never the less — you’ll probably end up sleeping with the lights on and wondering if you should ever go into a house you don’t know anything about again.