Проклятие 2 (2003) Online

By now, most audiences will be fairly familiar with the Japanese series of films known as Ju On: The Grudge; the phenomenally successful saga that began with the straight to video projects Ju On: The Curse, parts 1 and 2 - in which jealousy and adultery in a quaint Japanese suburb leads to an awful murder that marks the house for anyone who subsequently enters it - right the way through to the larger-budgeted Hollywood remake of the film and it's equally glossy sequel. Subsequent films following on from The Curse have taken the initial murder as their starting point and created around it a film of loosely connected horror vignettes, mostly in which a series of hapless characters end up in the film's iconic haunted house and then find themselves marked for death by the two most prominent apparitions of the story.

If you have already seen the American re-make of The Grudge with Sarah Michelle Geller then there's a good chance that this follow up to the Japanese original will come as something of shock. Unlike its US counterpart, this grudge features no real central character and has no real plot development (at least, not in the traditional sense). I personally don't see this as a bad thing, as it allows director Takashi Shimizu to concentrate on crafting a number of scenes of gripping high tension - as the collection of disparate innocents (this time a TV crew shooting a horror film based upon the events of the original film) who unknowingly come into contact with the infamous house and then must come to terms with the unexplainable horror that is happening all around them. However, viewers who look for things like narrative closure, explanations of plot developments and something approaching a hero that they can root for might be sorely disappointed.

As I mentioned above, this version of The Grudge instead strings together a series of inter-woven scenes that establish the significance of the curse whist setting up a number of fantastic, edge-of-your seat moments of haunted house horror. This isn't a gritty gore-fest with annoying, smug, ultra-cynical characters (as seems to be the trend with much contemporary horror - think Wolf Creek, Hostel, Cabin Fever, The Hills Have Eyes remake and 28 Weeks Later) but rather, the kind of horror that should appeal to anyone who has had to walk home late at night through an empty park and felt the presence of someone (or something) following closely behind. Your heart starts racing as you quicken your step and become convinced that you can hear footsteps rapidly approaching from the left of your shoulder! When you finally pick up the courage to turn around and look, you realise your mind has been playing tricks on you, but the thrill was still heart-stopping regardless.

I prefer this kind of horror, which is why I'm such a huge fan of the horror films coming out of Japan, China and North Korea; great works like The Eye trilogy, Wishing Stairs, Abnormal Beauty, Premonition, Infection, Chaos, A Tale of Two Sisters and Takashi Shimizu's own Grudge-follow up Reincarnation. It's slow moving and slow building, almost ambient even; often coming at you from the rear speakers rather than full and on in your face, which for me, really creates a great, eerie atmosphere that works perfectly if you're watching it at 1:30 AM and have to pause for a toilet break and to let the dog out to stretch her legs.

Unlike a lot of his American contemporaries, Takashi Shimizu realises that horror isn't about what you see, but what you don't see, and with this in mind he saves any prolonged glimpses of our ghostly antagonists until right towards the very end. He also manages to create a wonderful feeling of isolation, alienation and hopeless emptiness; not only from the haunted house so central to the story, but even in the brightly-lit suburban streets, schools, office blocks and apartment buildings that our characters inhabit. The film is also shot very simply and traditionally, with none of the hyper-cutting and frantic camera movements of western horror, which again, gives the Grudge a more believable and authentic feeling that only heightens the senses of horror and tension. This is also helped by the wonderful performances of the cast who manage to ably convey the right sense of fraught emotion without descending into screaming histrionics.

For me, The Grudge 2 is easily as great the first instalment; although some viewers may find the more outrageous elements of the closing scenes to be a little too much (I'm guessing the planned third instalment will pick up on and explain some of these ideas, but we'll have to wait and see). This is horror for those who want chills rather than spills, and those who like to invest some serious time in something that is slower, more deliberate and more dramatic than the usual stalk and slash type stuff (not that I don't love that kind of horror as well, but it's nice to have an intelligent alternative). As mentioned previously, there will be some viewers who won't want to invest their time in such a film that has no obvious sense of narrative and no single identifiable character, but at the end of the day, that's their decision. But they're clearly missing out!

If you have a pure affection for scary scenes you may find this movie pretty enjoyable. But most of us are human beings with a power to reason and that's where this film has completely failed us!

To start with I really don't know what this "grudge" means despite the explanation in the film. There's completely no logic.

Alright, a boy and an apparently innocent and good looking woman ( even in her ghost look) was brutally killed. They have turned into ghosts. I can take that. But why have they at the same time lost their minds and start murdering everyone they can get hold of? What are they up to? And can anyone tell me how the hell can ghost be reborn as human again? Is the reborn girl a hybrid inborn with the aptitude of pushing her mom down the stairs at the age of 5?

I mean, every day there are brutal murders to innocent people everywhere and these islands of grudges set up could have erased the human race in months if according to this"grudge" principle. What would the world be like if it is filled of grudged ghosts without humans?

The storyteller must give us humans some logic to chew on, some codes to comprehend ghosts' behavior, and some clues to untie the knot! This had not happened in the film. Instead, Shimizu untiringly performs the same trick over and over again , resulting in death after death from the same predators, and in very similar manners, and for no reasons.

Even if the logic is to be revealed in the later sequel it will be too late. We have to have a reason to bring us through these 3 hours of mutilation of human beings by angry ghosts to prevent us from becoming angry audience, and ending up having grudges against the movie.

Man, we need a storyline to go on! Not just scary scenes!

The rage of Kayako and her son Toshio continue in this sequel to "Ju-On: The Grudge." Creepier and scarier than the first film, Ju-On 2 begins with a young couple and a tragic car accident which leaves a pregnant television star named Kyoko devastated. With her fiancé in a coma and her unborn baby supposedly lost, she continues with her blossoming career in horror films. But when she agrees to appear in a pseudo-documentary about the "haunted house" where Kayako and Toshio still "reside," the virus of the Grudge begins anew. Soon, everyone involved with the production is missing or dead, and Kyoko, who has recently been informed that her baby is not lost after all, begins to realize that what she is carrying may not be hers at all.

Ju-On 2 is definitely much more scarier than its predecessor. Disturbing sound effects, jerky camera movements and one dizzy nightmarish scene after another literally left me reeling, feeling as confused and freaked out as the characters in the film. There are some great visual effects here; Kayako and her wild hair spread over a ceiling, tendrils dropping down into lethal nooses; a wig come to hideous life and the ghostly blue Toshio staring out of the darkness. The ending was a work of morbid art, leaving me quite stunned. "Ju-On 2" has proved beyond a doubt that sequels are not always a bad thing, and sometimes, they're even better!

Highly recommended!

I Start of with the The Plot: As driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old foetus in her womb.

The first Ju-on-The Grudge was the creepiest movie I have ever seen! It scared me for two days,Just when you thought The Grudge couldn't get scarier then Ju-on-The Grudge they bring the Spine-chilling Ju-on-The Grudge 2.

This is one hell of a scary movie, From to start to end you will be left confused by some scenes, the more confusing it get the more it creeps you out!

This movie has some very creepy scenes that keep you on the edge of your seat but then the last ten minutes of the movie was just petrifying, it scared the living daylight out me! Acting from the whole cast was great!

This sequel was more creepy then first movie but less scary then first but It's one of the best horror sequel EVER! I give 9/10

"Ju-on:The Grudge 2" is the sequel to the smash-hit "Ju-on:The Grudge", and is the fourth installment into the "Ju-on" series. Like it's precursor, it is told in chapters. All the chapters are somehow connected to the curse of the grudge.

Were you disappointed by "Ju-on:The Grudge"? Well, if you were (like me), you'll be surprised. This sequel was MUCH better than the original in almost every aspect. The scares were more scarier, there were more scares, tenser scenes, a LOT better acting, a much better story, and a more solid plot. I was really surprised by how good this sequel was. Ever heard of the old sequel rule? "Sequels are never as good as the originals"? Well, I' happy to say that that doesn't apply here.

So to sum it up, I really enjoyed this movie. It was a major improvement on the original film. If you're a fan of the Ju-on series, you have to watch this.

I always get kind of agitated when producers feel a need to make sequels. I have never seen one that actually mattered. This one didn't either.

Having said that I do feel a need to actually recommend this Ju-On part. Besides the obvious rerun of old tricks, some of the new material is actually quite interesting and well-thought of. For example the thuds on the wall (that the couple hears every night around 12.30)are later explained in an eerie way. The wig-on-the-floor-thing was nicely done.

Finally, I thought the birth was original as well as the ending of the movie.

All in all entertaining (for a "Part two" movie) but not a MUST SEE.

While driving on the road, the pregnant horror movies actress Kyoko Harase (Noriko Sakai) and her fiancé have a car crash caused by the fiend of Toshio, and Kyoko loses her baby and her fiancé stays in coma. Kyoko was cursed together with all the television crew when she hosted a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyoko is informed that she has a three and half month fetus in her womb.

"Ju-on: The Grudge 2" is a very creepy and scary horror movie, based on a Japanese legend, and disclosed in a non-linear screenplay. In the beginning of this sequel, the explanation of the curse is presented again. When a person is killed in a violent way, his or her death generates a curse that will stay in the place where the crime took place. If another person visits the haunted place, he or she will be chased by the fiends till death generating another curse.

Like the first one, this movie 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. I startled many times while watching this film. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Ju-On, O Grito 2" ("Ju-On, The Scream 2")

This film is the scariest film i've ever seen in my whole life. It is miles scarier than the first one. Usually when you watch a sequel to a really good film it is crap. This film is such an exception to that rule it is unbelievable. This film takes J-Horror to a whole new level. The story is very good although a bit confusing with the time jumps and everything, but you can kind of get the gist of it before the movie ends. The Last scene in the hospital has stayed in my mind. It totally freaked me out. I was disappointed that they didn't have a lengthy stairs scene as that is my favourite scene from any horror movie ever. If you were scared at the first film you will be terrified at this one.

This has got to be THE most scary film I have ever seen. Even more scary than the original The Ring. A must see if you like having you adrenaline racing. It starts as an ordinary, not-so-interesting kind a movie, but it only takes 15 min before you realize there is a deeper meaning behind it all. After that its all fear, and you soon begin to fear everything.

I'm happy to say that, after a slight disappointment with 'Ju On: The Grudge,' the series returns to form with this installment.

Just when you thought Takashi Shimizu had done everything there was to do with 'Ju On,' this third sequel (and second theatrical film) takes things in a slightly new direction...and gives us some of the most terrifying scenes yet.

Yes, Toshio and his Mum are still on the prowl. Yes, the plot is told in the same disjointed segment style. But, without spoiling the surprises, some new and unexpected twists are added to the mythology. And just as expected, there are plenty of images and sounds that will haunt you till your dying day.

I can't wait to see what Shimizu has in store with the fifth film (the American installment) and dread the thought of seeing these images on a big screen!

Smart Far Eastern horror uses chills, psychology and subtle intelligence to place itself a cut above many of its peers.

Ju-on 2 is obviously a sequel to Ju-on (The Grudge), a fairly reasonable if perhaps not brilliant chiller from the Orient, in which a murder had caused the house it occurred in to host a curse as a result of the slaying.

Following on from this, Ju-on 2 uses the same trick as seen in the likes of Magnolia whereby a bunch of victims, related to one another in some way, suffer at the hands of said curse.

Indeed, this is much like a compendium of tales, focusing on around 6 victims whose lives becomes inextricably linked as a result of circumstance, all of which harks back to the original house.

However, rather than outlining the finer details of the plot, it seems fairer to explain *why* this is such a good effort from Asia compared to so many of its really rather derivative kin such as Phone, Eye etc.

Certainly this also has more than a homage to Ring, and could be tenuous accused of slight plagiarism given many of the utterly blatant similarities, so what makes it a cut above the others?

Well, one of the main strengths here is some fantastic psychological trickery. The direction itself is fantastically conducive to it, and without giving away the exact nature of the manipulation of the viewer going on here, it's fair to say that it does a pretty good job of conveying the same kind of 'wrongness' that Ring exuded. There are plenty of moments here which create a genuine chill such is their effective defying of how we believe the laws of physics and biology work. When an event goes against all the worldly beliefs you have set in stone, it makes you take notice. Furthermore, given the distinctly psychological nature of much of Ju-on 2, it truly comes across as utterly twisted like some kind of awful nightmarish trip (Unlike Audition's frankly baffling last 3rd) but one which doesn't leave the viewer confused.

There are also a number of subtle tricks in evidence, many of which don't become apparent till later, all of which genuinely gathered an impressed reaction from me.

I am not going to pretend this is a terrifying movie, because to me, while there were certainly moments which got the adrenaline going a little, it is not exactly all that scary if you're a fan of these movies. Basically, we've seen it all before.

Nonetheless, as critical and harsh as that sounds, it still manages to entertain extremely well despite it, because it uses its own unique brand of originality to compliment the obvious nods to other movies.

Certainly one of the best Eastern horrors I've seen.

Kyoko is in a car accident with her husband one night and she loses her unborn child and her husband falls into a coma. We learn that this was no ordinary accident, as Kyoko is a horror actress who was part of a film crew who filmed and investigated a haunted house. Soon the crew start falling pray to curse that surrounds the house and strange occurrences fold out.

What a strong and innovative sequel to one of my favourite (if formulaic) modern j-horror flicks. Atmosphere is laid on thick, that's dark shadows and cold chills. Visually it's perfectly choreographed and the non-linear story seemed to be more focused with some refreshing ideas executed. The episodic stories are neatly tied together with the main the story and the characters are fleshed out rather evenly. That said, I thought it lacked the terrifying and claustrophobic images of Taskashi Shimizu's previous effort on "Ju-on: The Grudge". Yeah, there are some standout scenes, but less so than "Ju-on". The big difference you come to see in this sequel is that the house isn't much of an imprint as more often the action occurs outside it, but the presence of it is still embedded. Shimizu's polished direction is definitely sure-footed with great use of film techniques to entertain while keeping you on the edge. Making foot-way are eerie sounds (you can't go pass that drawn out burping!), an effectively well-balanced score and spacious photography. He keeps the story on the move with very little pauses and lapses of logic. Although, repetition can creep in, but for me that factor wasn't that disrupting. Performances (especially Noriko Sakaiare) are relevantly tidy and solidly delivered. The actors do a good job in trapping you in this horrifyingly harrowing ordeal of dread that you simply can't escape when it takes hold. The special effects aren't top draw, or very explosive, but piercingly detailed make-up FX goes a long way in tapping into those unnerving spells that cloud the air.

An unnervingly morbid, taut and cracking sequel, which is basically just as good as it's predecessor.

I Thought that Ju-on 2 Was a great horror film just as good as the first film. While driving, a pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé ends up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies. Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old foetus in her womb. I Thought that Ju-on 2 was a great horror film. I felt that This film which was directed by Shimizu Takashi was more psychologically disturbing than the first film. and i felt that it had a very creepy feel to it.

I was disappointed by the original but this sequel was much, much better. Everything about it has been improved - the plot, the character development, the direction, the mood, the fear factor. The over all feeling of this film is very very creepy. It's exactly how a ghost story should be. It doesn't give you the kind of scares that make you jump out of your skin like some movies do but what it does give you is a very uneasy and haunting feeling.

The arrangement and fragmentation of script was excellent. It's broken up into separate stories or chapters like the first one but they've played with the time line in this one in a very wonderful way which contributes to the ghostly feeling of the film as a whole. The story with the banging on the wall was a particular favourite of mine, and, I think, pretty genius.

I am so glad I watched this! It has now become one of my favourite Japanese horror films.

This sequel to the Japanese hit surrounds how the grudge curse affects the lives of a TV show crew and an actress who do a show from the accursed home. Ju-On: The Grudge 2 's story is told in the same non-linear way that the first one was, but this time around rather than being effective it seems to just muddy the whole film. It will leave you scratching your head at times and might even be a bit frustrating. The sequel lacked the overall atmosphere of the first one. It had several good chills or two and even a boo now and then but the overall effect is a bit lackluster and disappointing. The moral of this story is to be wary of ticked off people, especially dead ones and for heavens sake clean that stain on the carpet, it may well be a portal to another zip code.

The first film Ju On: The Grudge, is personally one of the scariest films I have seen so I had high expectations of the sequel. I was sadly disappointed.

Ju On: The Grudge 2 really was a pointless exercise in film-making, that starts off poorly, barely keeps it's head above water in the middle & completely falls apart in the final third, it appears that the good ideas were used in the first film.

Sure you can get away with a lot in the world of horror but too many of the plot twist were just comically absurd & the whole Chiharu sub-plot was completely irrelevant to anything else in the film & didn't need to be there.

The whole rebirth concept reminded me a lot of the first Ringu sequel(Rasen) & guess what, it didn't really work for that series either but I did think that one it's own Rasen was a better film than Grudge 2.

I bought this on DVD at Christmas without having seen it previously. I did the same with "The Grudge" and it was a great experience; my friend and I (23 and 21 at the time) were so scared we had to watch "Finding Nemo" to calm us down. I refused to watch "The Grudge 2" on my own, so waited for the same friend to watch it. Now, two friends (25 and 23 now) have never been less scared in their lives. I've been more scared by toy commercials than this film. It just seemed far too contrived and too similar to the first film. Bits of it were good, but instead of being scared we just said "That was good". This film is a big let down, let's just hope the 3rd one gets the series back on it's feet.

Basically , The Grudge 2 is just the same than The Grudge, the same frights, the same scary little boy, the same scary woman, the same haunted house... Some may wonder what's the point of this movie (I mean, the surprise effect is completely lost)... but we all know the answer to that: the point is nothing but to make some more money. Anyway, get your pop-corn, get your coke, turn off the lights, embrace your girl/boy, and prepare to get a bunch of frights... I'm not gonna go deeply into any other aspects of The Grudge 2, such as the narrative style, the confusing estructure, the awful ending, etc. 'cause it would be worthless.

My rate: 4.5/10

The Grudge 2 is surprisingly scary movie, even tough it's not extremely good as a movie. Most of this is merit to the eerie atmosphere of the film.

Now, the plot itself is quite simple: a TV group is making a documentary of a house, which has a history of violence. Angry spirits of the house start slaughtering the group from some reason or another, it really wasn't explained why, but that's what happens in the flick. You could actually say, that The Grudge 2 is almost totally plot less movie, that shows one killing after another, in not in any particular order.

And for another thing, the DVD I watched it from suffered from extremely poor encoding: there was unforgivable amount of pixelation visible on the TV. And it was official rental DVD. I hope you will have better luck with the image quality.

First, let me say that I believe this movie is hugely underrated and extremely terrifying. In fact, of all the horror films I've seen, this one is probably my favorite. Kayako has a menace to her that competes with the best of horror villains and her menace is displayed at its maximum here. Ju-on 2 has plenty of wonderfully done and creative scares for you. The storyline switches between characters in a non linear fashion. However, all the stories are intertwined and come together for a twisted, dark finale. This means that the entire movie I was both terrified and entertained. As a horror film fan, I recommend this. As a fan of Asian horror and scary ghost girls, I recommend it as well.

I have to admit I haven't seen Grudge 1, but I have seen The Ring so I understand that Asian horror films are a bit different. But really, this film was terrible and not the least bit scary. Incomprehensible is a better descriptor. Corny, predictable and dull, yes.

The plot just left me going "what?" as you had a succession of undeveloped characters getting bumped off in disjointed "future-past-future" sequences that just left you scratching your head. Large chunks of the film went unexplained - such as the whole schoolgirl extra storyline, why ghost-woman-and-boy were targeting people who hadn't even been in the house (boyfriends, schoolgirl extras etc), why the hell ghost-woman-reborn-as-evil-child waited five or six years to kill mum on a whim....etc, etc, etc....

Sorry, this one just left me thankful we hadn't paid good money to see it at the movies.

I found this even more confusing (and even less frightening) than the first Grudge film, with which it shares many features: The same lack of coherent plot (again I had to refer to the synopsis (above) to find out what the film's actually about), the same white-faced children, the same girl from The Ring (nice effect the first time I saw it, getting a bit passé now), same pools of water (ooh, scary, scary water), same silly hairpiece dragging itself across the floor (couldn't the characters just squash the thing with a heavy book or something?). Not scary in the slightest: would probably have been better billed as a light comedy, or a soporific.

If you thought JU-ON 1 was good, you're going to love the second installment! Everything about this film is top notch: direction, script, cast, FXs, camera work, pacing. I was very impressed with how after 4 trips to the well (the first two in the series were direct-to-video), the series just gets better and better.

This movie is extreme. Not in blood or gore, it is extreme thematically. Unlike modern US horror films that leave some sort of cop out exit door for audience members, this film avoids that pitfall. And the FXs are just enough to be effective. None of that FXs for the sake of FXs crap that makes US films longer than they need be (and weaker story wise).

Better than RING? Better than KAIRO? Well, at least as good and certainly a positive addition to the growing body of "Japanese Horror".

Ju-On The Grudge 2: 3 out of 10. When horror franchises go back to the same well they often attempt to at least make superficial changes in the main character's circumstances. (It's Jason but he is in 3-d. It's Jason but he is in New York. It's Jason but he is in space.) Now I'm not suggesting these efforts actually worked. (Leprechauns in Space or Children of the Corn in the ghetto are two abominable examples but I have to give the Halloween people credit when their main killer Michael Myers went off to do Wayne's World)

However at least these franchises made the appearance of some effort. Ju-on the Grudge 2 is actually the fourth or fifth Ju-on movie depending on who is counting. And it is the exact same house and the exact same ghosts and the whole grudge part makes even less sense than ever. (Even the Amityville Horror series had the decency to leave the damn house eventually) To make matters worse we have had approximately 100 white screeching ghost chicks with black hair Asian horror films since the first one.

It seems like every Asian culture is raping their heritage to come up with their own home grown spook. (Strangely enough one of the recent knockoffs I saw Thailand's Ghost of Mae Nak used Final Destination death scenes rather than the black haired white faced knockoff to get scares. Even the Johnny come lately realize that this genre is spent.) The ghosts once again are the marshmallow boy and the scary woman with hair of death. The movie is shot Memento like completely out of order. Needless to say this does not help matters. The death scenes are generally not shown but suggested which can add to the confusion. By the time you figure out what is going on the movie is half over. Some effective scares but the wig bit in the middle and the Omen stuff at the end had me laughing with disbelief.

Large amounts of silence and a ridiculously slow pace will challenge even the most caffeinated viewers to stay awake. The main characters don't help as they are pretty boring and lack any personality or spark.

Ju-On the Grudge 2 is the same movie as the others but with less. This sequel is for a fanatic or completest only.

I went to watch the Ju-on marathon last night and man, it's one of the scariest horror trilogies I have seen. Ju-on 2 picks up on where the cliffhanger was in Ju on but right from the start, Kayako and her son was out to kill.

In every few scenes, you could hear that now infamous "ah ah ah ah ah" sound and it really freaked me and other audiences in the theatre out! She and her son would come out from literally anywhere without warning and it's so scary! I screamed so loud that I had nearly lost my voice at the end of the film.

Watch it if you dare. 'cos it would be a fun, rollercoaster ride of a horror festival.