Second The Grudge remake

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Another "Grudge" Remake On The Way

By Garth Franklin Friday August 26th 2011 03:21PM
Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures are teaming for a second remake of "The Grudge" reports Bloody Disgusting.
The franchise began life as two Japanese short films in 1998, followed by two direct-to-video Japanese films, foliowed by two theatrical Japanese films.
The first theatrical film, 2003's "Ju-on: The Grudge" spawned the 2004 American remake "The Grudge" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as an American exchange student in Japan. Her character takes a job as a care worker where she comes upon the curse that plagues the Japanese suburban home of the deceased Saeki family.
A sequel to the remake hit theatres in 2006, followed by a direct-to-DVD third film in 2009 - the latter being the only work in the entire series NOT to be directed by Takashi Shimizu.
There's no word if this remake/reboot will go theatrical or straight to disc, and no word on Shimizu's involvement at the moment.

 

[kvz5]

Seriously? What the...?

 

[bullets]

This is kinda funny.

 

[Asgard]

No way this goes theatrical. Straight to dvd if theres funding.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Another one? That sucks!

 

[WildcatNC]

Dear lord. Studio's fail. Come up with something new for gods sake.

 

[mclay18]

I will say that The Grudge 3 was better than Grudge 2. Story was cohesive, acting was pretty decent, and the production did a nice job of maintaining visual continuity with Shimizu's films. Toby Wilkins couldn't stage or execute the jump scares effectively like Shimizu did (plus you see Kayako too often), but overall it was a decent time-waster. Much better than the usual DTV sequels, as well as those intolerably bad SyFy original films.

I see this 'revival' film going DTV, unless Ghost House really wants to revive the franchise or gets a marketable director.

 

[Secret Fawful]

I cursed for three minutes straight at this.

 

[Prison Mike]

What was wrong with the first remake? I thought it was okay...

 

[Spideyfan93]

The first remake from 04' deeply disturbed my sleep and mind when I saw it...in the theaters...when I was 11. And it still startles me because of the creepy Japanese woman ghost.

So, the **** are they thinking?!

 

[moviedoors]

I still think the story has yet to be told with any coherency. I like that the incomprehensibilty adds to the weirdness, but I'd like to see a movie that I could follow. I had trouble with the time cuts in both versions, but I really dug the atmosphere. Whatever. I'm not in love with the series anyway, so whatever. Don't have the energy to be upset about it.

 

[Teelie]

Won't be long now and they'll begin remaking movies that are still in the theater.

 

[Figs]

The first one was bad enough and now they want to remake it. I don't get what's so great about a dumb kid who makes cat noises and a woman who looks and sounds like she's about to perform on a guy if you know what I mean.

 

[WildcatNC]

The first one was bad enough and now they want to remake it. I don't get what's so great about a dumb kid who makes cat noises and a woman who looks and sounds like she's about to perform on a guy if you know what I mean.

Got to find me one of THOSE haunted houses

 

[Nightmare]

Garbage