Movie Review

The Grudge 2 (2006)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | Oct 18, 2006

Scott Brown

Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Release Date: Oct 13, 2006; Rated: PG-13; Length: 97 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn

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Image credit: Grudge 2: David Appleby

PEEK-A...BOO! There's not a lot of shocks we haven't seen before in Grudge 2

What's a bad sequel but a revenant soul doomed to repeat itself? The Grudge 2 broadens the reach of the Japanese curse that put Sarah Michelle Gellar's doe-eyed gaijin in the hospital, but the scares are the same: the hair, the tub, the yowling cat-boy, etc. Once again, we're treated to loosely aligned scenes of half-formed characters (including Amber Tamblyn as Gellar's brittle sister, so slight the movie nearly forgets she's there) getting a faceful of director Takashi Shimizu's croaking, implacable, and, yes, still scary housewife-geist.

Originally posted Oct 18, 2006 Published in issue #904 Oct 27, 2006 Order article reprints

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