The Grudge 2

[SpikedBuffy]

Anybody going to see this movie? Even though Sarah's only in it for about ten minutes or so.... it's still exciting that she's on the big screen again!

I don't know if I can see it! I'm a big wuss, and the first one gave me nightmares. Let me tell you, that the second one looks much scarier.

[Ladybug]

I'm going to see it tomorrow maybe :)

Can't wait. My friends all think I'm insane.

[zombie.apparatus]

I cuddled into my friend in the first one.. its the only movie that freaks me out! so the second one im assuming is going to be even worse for me to watch.. but if SMG is in it.. im there..

sarah.. you realise this is for you.. lol i blame smg for making me watch them

[Darling Faithy]

Haha I saw it, just to let you guys know, you really have to pay attention in this one, it can get hard to follow, but its an AWSOME movie!! and Sarah's hair is soo cool!

[arabella]

i'm too scared to see it :( the first one made me have nightmares...i don't like movies where creepy children are the bad guys...i really want to see it though.

[slayerpower]

It made $9 million on Friday, with an estimated $24 million for the weekend. Not as much as the original ($39 million opening), but good enough.

[watcher1006]

Well I went to see "The Grudge 2", more out of loyalty to some of the cast members rather than out of real interest in it.

I don't know about this one. When the movie ended, there was some booing from the audience. I don't think it was as good as the first but then maybe the concept had just gotten old. The shock scenes started to get kind of predictable.

Whatever the merits of the movie Amber Tamblyn is interesting to watch. Being cast as Karen Davis' sister made me wonder what she might have been like playing Dawn in BtVS, lol, though I guess she's about two years older than Michelle Trachtenberg.

I'm actually glad that SMG was only in the movie for a very brief time. I wouldn't have enjoyed seeing her character just go through more and more of what happened to her in the first movie. After all, I still can't entirely stop seeing her as our Buffy! ;) I do think the ideas were spent the first time around. Sometimes these sequels just shouldn't be made...

[zombie.apparatus]

watcher1006 as you said im going to see it more out of loyalty to some of the cast members rather than out of real interest in it.... and im also glad SMG was in it.. otherwise its just not worth it otherwise! ;)

[Jenny]

I really really want to see this in the theatre. However, since I have a baby and therefore have no life anymore..I'll need to wait for it to be available for rent. But yes I would...strictly out of loyalty to SMG (although I did like the first one).

[Primal Slayer]

It made $9 million on Friday, with an estimated $24 million for the weekend. Not as much as the original ($39 million opening), but good enough.

Thats true, but Grudge 2 was made on a budget of 20 million so atleast it wont be a box office flop since it already made back what it cost to make.

[eunsoma]

i just watched it the other day, i gotta say it was good, but the first one was better, probably becoz it had more SMG. i cant help seeing her as Buffy though, and wondering : WHY THE HELL DOESN'T SHE KICK ITS ASS?

[Jenny]

Really good interview of SMG and review of The Grudge 2:

Sarah Michelle gets more experience battling evil

Sarah Michelle Gellar has encountered plenty of demonic beasts in her life. She stabbed horrid-looking creatures with wooden stakes as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, hunted ghosts in the Scooby Doo films and battled blood-thirsty psychos in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2.

Then came The Grudge, an evil Japanese curse with creepy black matted hair known as Kayako.

In Gellar's new film, the sequel Grudge 2, Kayako wreaks more havoc and manages to leave Japan, cross the Pacific Ocean and go on a killing spree in the United States.

Sure, Kayako, vampires, ghosts and the other psychos are scary, but there is another beast that frightens the 29-year-old actress. It's a dude in a construction hat.

"Building contractors," said Gellar. "That's who scare me the most. Never, ever, ever attempt to remodel your house."

Gellar and husband, actor Freddie Prinze jnr, live a bi-coastal life, with homes in Los Angeles and New York.

The construction work on the LA property began years ago and does not look as if it will be completed soon.

"We live mainly in New York so I'm not here very often," Gellar said.

"So we left the builders to be. Don't do that. Don't live in another state and expect the construction work to be finished."

It's her very own horror story.

"You should see my house," she sighs.

"It's in shambles. There's no doors."

The LA home may be an eyesore, but Gellar's acting career is not in bad shape.

The Grudge, based on the Japanese horror film Ju-On, cost only US$10 million ($14.9 million) to make but went on to be one of 2004's most profitable films with a global box office take of US$187 million.

Gellar reportedly pocketed a nice salary to reprise her role as Karen Davis in The Grudge 2 and in the past year has worked on three films back-to-back, including with Andy Garcia on the drama The Air I Breathe.

The Grudge 2 returns to the haunted Japanese home set on fire at the end of the original.

Gellar's character spends most of her time during the sequel in a mental ward, although Kayako does not take long to track her down.

The evil spirit also has a new batch of pretty young things to terrorise, including American actresses Amber Tamblyn, best known for her TV series
Joan of Arcadia, and Arielle Kebbel (Aquamarine and John Tucker Must Die).

The Grudge 2 was shot entirely in Japan, and despite a traditional Shinto ceremony at the start of filming to purify the set of evil spirits, the cast and crew encountered a number of odd happenings.

"The ceremony is common on Japanese film sets for horror films because they feel if you're doing a film about ghosts and the supernatural, you can invite evil spirits into your life and into your world," Gellar said.

"I don't think it [the ceremony] worked because we had a ton of injuries on the set.

"Ariel fell and broke her foot and she had to wear a cast and there were a couple of other scary things."

Gellar and her castmates raved about their time in Japan, although one cultural difference caused some friction.

Japanese film sets apparently do not have a smoking ban and The Grudge 2's director, Takashi Shimizu, enjoys a cigarette or two.

"I banned it," Gellar said. "Shimizu would see me coming so he'd hide his cigarette. That was my one thing. You could smoke outside, not inside."

Tamblyn said the cigarette smoke was often used instead of smoke machines.
"I did a scene and it was in a dark room and it was supposed to be a bit hazy," Tamblyn, 23, said.

"Shimizu basically instructed everyone to start smoking cigarettes because that's how they were going to fill the room with smoke.

"I was like, 'No. I'm going to have a panic attack.'

"That was always strange to me because Japanese culture you think is so advanced in many ways and very much about health, but they chainsmoke so much."

Who: Sarah Michelle Gellar, former vampire slayer What: The Grudge 2 When and where: At cinemas now


Source (http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=19054)

[Primal Slayer]

im glad that she is getting good reviews, hope that The Return gets good reviews aswell.

[Jenny]

im glad that she is getting good reviews, hope that The Return gets good reviews aswell.

I keep seeing trailers for it and can not WAIT for that one as well!! My hubby is calling her the new Scream Queen though lol.

[Wicked]

Ok so its been a day of bad horror movie for me today. This, The Return and Black Christmas (also Final Destination 3 last night).

I hated this. I didnt like the first one (so unscary) but I like Amber Tamblyn so I thought Id give it a go.

Why was she first billed? She was barely in it. The movie made no sense. To many things didnt add up. It was stupid and felt like they made the plot up s they went along. Im still confused about what really was supposed to have happened.

And what was with the Aubrey being the Ghost at the end thing? Why?

Also, I thought the point was the man killed his wife in the first one cos he thought she was cheating on him? So what was the point of the whole mother thing and what she did to her daughter? It didnt fit anywhere.

So yeah. I didnt like it.

[bitca4]

Ok so its been a day of bad horror movie for me today. This, The Return and Black Christmas (also Final Destination 3 last night).

I hated this. I didnt like the first one (so unscary) but I like Amber Tamblyn so I thought Id give it a go.

Why was she first billed? She was barely in it. The movie made no sense. To many things didnt add up. It was stupid and felt like they made the plot up s they went along. Im still confused about what really was supposed to have happened.

And what was with the Aubrey being the Ghost at the end thing? Why?

Also, I thought the point was the man killed his wife in the first one cos he thought she was cheating on him? So what was the point of the whole mother thing and what she did to her daughter? It didnt fit anywhere.

So yeah. I didnt like it.

I didn't like the second one either. The Grudge movies are supposed to be scary... they are phycological thriller movies... you are supposed to think about it to get it.

[Wicked]

I did think about it. A lot. Too much. And I just confused myself more.

[bitca4]

^lol! I confused myself too when I first watched it! But now I get it!

[white avenger]

I saw the first one, and found it to be a completely underwhelmig experience. To me, it was just another example of what the horror genre has degenerated to since the days of the classics. The plot was almost non-existant and every scene was predictable. My experience with this movie convinced me that, since sequals almost never reach the quality of the origonals, I would save my money and buy HAPPY FEET for my granddaughter.

[GATEGOD]

First off the first scene we see of 'Karen'(Sarah) is terribly heartbreaking. No one will believe her, they all think she's the one to blame. They even put her into a position which leaves her totally helpless. She can't even defend herself, anyone could do anything to her :cry: Morons. Then she runs to the roof and I know what's going to happen next, the only thing that could happen next and then they're probably going to think she killed herself. :cry: when you see her face on the ground, :cry: Now that she's dead... I'll try and keep watching, it'll probably get better, I just wish they hadn't killed her so soon, or at all :cry: