takashi shimizu have a great opportunity with a remake of his original film ju on the grudge . while i haven not see that film and i would have to wager that there more imagination and originality ( or some rip off originality and in other word skill with known trope of the japanese ghost movie ) than in his own directed remake . maybe the script be write to somehow have some kind of warped appeal and or i would guess accessibility and for an american audience . what start off with some potential the hint of something very screw up go on with bill pullman sudden movement just go into a total jumble . and a a horror movie . gim me a break . tension could have be build on the situation a nurse go to take care of a disturbed woman in a house that be haunt but he undercut everything he want to get his audience to feel . scare . how about some music time just so you know when exactly to expect something . a black cat . yeah and why not just make the ghost boy thing sound like a cat for creepiness which and in effect and be only creepy if you want cat . plot . why not just shuffle between past and present without any semblance of an actual flow of how a story could be tell ( mean and while the flashback be insert and be mean to be organic with the story overall and they aren not ) and or for that matter have u care about anyone in the cast . by the time the character and or those that be there for exposition and get around to tell u what be go on or whatever and there little point to care . the film making be shoddy ( i. e. the 180 degree rule be break many time over and not in a forgivable or intriguing way ) and and the performance be wooden even when look frighten or shock ( gellar especially be disappointing and but pullman and who show up later after his first scene and be sorely miscast ) . even when shimizu try for some average old boo scare and like when the woman be in the office building and chase by the grudge ghost and it still silly . just watch when she go on that elevator and the ghost be in the background of shot . either you will go with it and and if so more power to you and or you will laugh hysterically at the result . count me in the latter . i be not totally sure where this project go wrong be it shimizu have to retool it for the studio and or him not give enough leeway with his revamp of his vision . or maybe raimi have some say in it and make thing more confusing and or or dull than they would be with someone else . the grudge give u a lot of information that doesn not make sense or at the least give u some horror fodder to chew on . it cineplex trash of a sad order .