Pesce promises that eagle-eyed fans will "see a lot of subtle clever places where the movies overlap," starting with the opening scene in the movie, which takes place in Japan. Though set in America, the 2020 Grudge movie is set in 2004 and takes place concurrent to the events of the Sarah Michelle Gellar Grudge movie. We’re just showing you more of the impact that that story has had." "It’s not super clear in the trailer, but this curse that has been brought to America is connected to the one in Japan, so it’s not like we’re totally divorcing the worlds. It’s all one big thing, and so similarly important to me was that we’re not just nodding to the American remake," Pesce told IGN in an exclusive interview. "In my head, the American movies are not divorced from the Japanese ones, and this is not divorced from the greater canon.
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In fact, this new movie is directly connected to both the Japanese Ju-On film series and the American Grudge movies, which he is treating as one shared canon. While the trailer includes some familiar imagery from Ju-On and the 2004 Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring Grudge movie - the hair, the bathtub, the hand coming out of the back of someone's head, which was teased in The Grudge's teaser poster - Pesce promises that these nods are more than just fan service.
We got our first look at the movie when The Grudge debuted its first footage at New York Comic Con. But this expansion of the series takes the story from Japan to a cursed home in the United States, offering a new flavor to the established franchise and brings in new stars John Cho, Andrea Riseborough, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Demian Bichir and Jacki Weaver. The curse gathers in the place of death, and those who encounter it are consumed by its fury. The premise of the titular grudge remains the same: when someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage, a curse is born. But the most frightening thing is that, at the ‘end’, you realise this can, and will, go on and on.From director Nicolas Pesce and producer Sam Raimi, this is an R-rated story set in the larger Grudge and Ju-On universe. There’s even the optional extra exorcist, although she has to see dead people and die. Person gets chased up to the roof (because that’s always the smartest place to run) only to plunge off it, check. Girl in bed //thinks// it’s her boyfriend with her under the covers, only for him to appear in the bathroom, check. Girl appears in a cheerleader outfit for no apparent reason – check. Shimuzi’s American producers (who include Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert) have obviously given him and his Yankee scripter the Hollywood Horror check list, and he ticks off the items carefully.
No, the curse born of death in the grip of rage is like an infectious virus, so one of the victim girlies can carry it to America. Torching the Tokyo crib didn’t get rid of that little dead kid with the panda eye make-up and the dead cat. Then later we see her moving in all smoochy with him, because hey! We’re going back and forth in time as well as space. In the obligatory post-Scream pre-credits snuff sequence Beals brains her bellyaching husband with the breakfast skillet (ripped off from Six Feet Under, much?). Sarah Michelle Gellar checks out of this quickly so she could go off to another horror movie, bless, but the baffling extended cameo prize goes to Jennifer Beals. Just as nitwit girls in ‘70s horrors would tremulously ask the house / words, “Who’s there?”, people here keep being told if they go into //that// house they’ll die, so their immediate response is, “I have to go there!” They see dead people and die, some faster than others. If you’ve seen any of them, Grudge 2 is a repetitive blur of interchangeable characters who get their doom on and hallucinate scenes of the family massacre that kicked the whole thing off. But it’s beginning to feel like everyone watching these flicks is under an inescapable curse. How he manages to stay awake directing them at this stage is his problem. Writer-director Takashi Shimuzi’s sequel to the American remake of his own Ju-on/Grudge saga is actually his seventh Grudge film.
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