The Grudge 2: Everyone's favorite evil Japanese curse lady who kills Americans is back! And this time she's getting out of the tatami room and coming to America! To say that hijinx ensue would be a gross understatement. The director has gone out of his way to make the ghost even creepier than before, and we've got new and interesting ways for the evil ghost lady to show up and kill you (like through the hood of a sweatshirt, or a tray of developing fluid). This is one of those movies where you think the ghost is hidden in every shot (and who knows it may be), but I'm interested to see that if you ran the movie slo-mo if the ghost would show up more often, doing her little croaky sound. It's like "Where’s Waldo?"...except Waldo gets to kill you. And she even comes to America to destroy the lives of more Americans where they‘re from! The cast is B-list or lesser. We've got Sarah Michelle Gellar back briefly. Ambur Tamblyn is Gellar's sister, sent to Japan to find her sister. The only other person I recognized was Jennifer Beals as a housewife who falls under the sway of the evil Japanese lady when she comes to Chicago. This movie was plenty disturbing, but the most uncomfortable scene involved vomiting a jug of milk (it went on just a little too long so as to get me completely nauseous). Not as good as the original, but still wigged me out. Woodchuck sez, "Check it out."
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