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The Grudge 2 | 161049__grudge_2_l
PEEK-A...BOO! There's not a lot of shocks we haven't seen before in Grudge 2
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Release Date: Oct 13, 2006; Rated: PG-13; Length: 97 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn
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By Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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.


Posted Oct 18, 2006
 

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