Early Review From A Test Screening of The Grudge

Creature Corner has just run a lengthy, detailed and massively positive review of Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge – a remake of his own Japanese film Juon – and it’s totally worth a read. I love the original so I’ve been looking forward to this a lot and it’s good to hear that it lives up to the source material. The one odd note is that they’ve apparently been testing both R rated and PG-13 versions of the film, possibly aiming to cash in on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s fairly youthful audience if they can get a softer rated version of the film that works. Honestly this is a largely bloodless series so I don’t see a lot of reasons why they couldn’t make the PG-13 work, but I’m a little surprised that Shimizu and producer Sam Raimi aren’t just going for the jugular and letting the ratings fall where they may. Check the review out here.

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