Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only to find the dead ghost of his mother, and consequently has a heart attack and becomes a ghost himself. The story goes on to tell of the new tenants of the house and what they experience, and an investigation by two police officers into why so many people are dissapearing.Well if it's the same as the longer version more or less, I've most likely seen this too in many ways. Too many versions of these.Bottom line. Pick your poison.6/10

Let's start off by saying that this Japanese version to me is much more scarier than the Americanized version Grudge. although this is a hard movie to follow in spots and kinda will leave you a little lost,, like what happened in that scene,, and how the heck does it relate to the next scene,, luckily the DVD that i got came with English audio, now what i found really interesting in this movie is the use of cats.. nwo you say cats,, what does cats do,, cats aren't scary,, well there is this one scene where there is like 30 or 40 cats in a room , now i wouldn't wanna be stuck in a room with that many black cats at once,, and there is also another scene to me that is very scary.. there is a woman talking on the phone to her brother and she is waiting for him to say something,, and on the other end of the phone you hear a "meow" , now to me i think that that was classic horror., lots of people will say oh the American version was better,, maybe in spots,, but as a whole movie then i would say no.

I had been looking forward to seeing "Ju-on: The Grudge" (2003) for quite a while, after having heard it favorably compared to 1998's "Ringu," one of the best horror films I'd seen in years. As it turns out, "Ju-on" is not quite in "Ringu"'s league, but it still remains a fairly creepy, if ultimately frustrating, film. The picture deals with a house possessed by the spirits of a murdered mother and little boy, and presents us with a series of characters who have some pretty freaky and usually lethal experiences in said haunted abode. Admittedly, the mother, Kayako Saeki, and her son, Toshio, stake their claim to immortality in the classic-ghosts pantheon; every glimpse of Toshio is chilling, and every hint of Kayako's scuttling form fairly terrifying. Still, neither one is as scary as "Ringu"'s Sadako Yamamura, and the film eventually leaves the viewer feeling that all the pieces haven't been fitted together quite properly. Or, more likely, that some of the film's pieces are totally missing. For example, the film's director, Takashi Shimizu, reveals in an interview "extra" that the strange, staccato gurgling noise we hear throughout the movie is the result of Kayako's throat having been crushed when she was murdered by her husband. However, there is no way that the viewer could possibly know this by any hints supplied by the film itself. A nonlinear story line utilizing some bizarre time warping doesn't help clarity much either (the Izumi episode is particularly puzzling). Thus, while the film is well directed, features some fresh attractive players and boasts some nice touches (I love the way Toshio dawdles his fingers), it sure did leave me scratching my head. But as one of the film's characters, Rika, would probably tell you, better to scratch your own head than have someone else do it while you're in the shower!

I believe the movie that I saw twice is actually "Ju-on: The Grudge". The cover of the DVDs in IMDb are the same."Ju-On" is a very scary horror movie, based on a Japanese legend. In the beginning of the film, there is an explanation in this regard. When a person is killed in a violent way, his or her death generates a cursed evil spirit that will stay in the place where the crime took place. If another person meets this spirit, he or she will be chased and haunted to the death generating another curse. In Western cultures, the fiend is generally trapped in a haunted house, and the person is safe and sound if he or she escapes from the place."Ju-on" impresses because there is no bloody scene, only a tense psychological exploration of the inner fear of human beings for the unknown. The story is very simple and low paced, there are very few special effects, a great use of sound, no gore, but the creepy atmosphere is really frightening. Asiatic cinema proves again that in this moment their cinema is the number one in the horror genre. Unfortunately, the pretentious American industry of cinema insists in remaking and spoiling these Asian masterpieces. Today, 23 March 2007, I have just watched "Ju-on" for the second time with the intention of seeing the Japanese sequel and I startled many times with this excellent horror movie. I recalled the whole story and now I am familiarized with this Japanese belief of the Ju-on, therefore the non-chronological screenplay got better and better than in the first time that I saw. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Ju-On, O Grito" ("Ju-On, The Scream")