Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Summary: A normal everyday house is haunted by events from the past when a woman and child were murdered there. Now, everyone who sets foot in the place becomes marked and those who have been tainted begin to die.

Among the scariest movies ever put on celluloid, like its similarly styled sister, RINGU, this tale of death-by-curse is nothing short of blood chilling. With chapters named after each subsequent victim, it plays like a series of increasingly daunting, deadly vignettes. All of the stories surround a haunted house where the evil spirit of a 5-year-old boy still lurks. The first to enter the residence and be cursed is a young hospice worker visiting an elderly client. She finds the boy duct-taped in a closet, where he first appears to her in the form of a black cat, and then shows his human form which is a shockingly ghoulish white face and blackened eyes. Invisible to all except for those who are next to die, his presence seems like a true mystery. But when family members, friends, curious teenagers, and frightened police investigators begin to drop like flies, it is clear that his spirit thrives. Perhaps it is the unsolvable problem of the boy's vengeance that makes the premise so terrifying--his anger and his penalty cannot be curbed. But unforgettable scenes, such as the boy's very dead mother crawling serpentinely down the stairway, deserve the lion's share of the credit for the fearfulness of the film. What's more, the percussive, electronic score by Shiro Sato is spine-tingling. From Japanese director Takeshi Shimizu, whose RINGU was so successful that it received both prequels and sequels--and a Hollywood remake, THE RING, with Naomi Watts--fans should not miss this extraordinary fright-fest.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Feature length audio commentary with Bey Logan
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2003
Release Date:	October 22, 2007
Runtime:	92 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C T D 51059
Label:	Premier Asia
Keywords:	General, Grudge, On, Japanese, Horror, Ju, Occult, Aka, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult