DVD Review

The Grudge 2: Director's Cut (2007)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Feb 06, 2007; DVD Release Date: Feb 06, 2007; Movie Rated: PG-13; Genre: Horror; With: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn; Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Five more sequels couldn't shed light on this fuzzy backstory of a killer curse stemming from a double murder-suicide. Grudge 2 plunks Tamblyn (as Gellar's sister) into a thankless role, and three intertwining stories favor gore-free scares over exposition. Oh, forget the details. The ghosts will make you jump.
EXTRAS Deleted scenes and shorts, plus four featurettes that paint Japanese director Takashi Shimizu as a creative martyr, decrying the demands of U.S. viewers: ''I had to argue all the time with the American producers.''

Originally posted Feb 02, 2007 Published in issue #920 Feb 09, 2007 Order article reprints

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