Even further behind… I watched this the night after The Eye so yeaaaaah. Hopefully I can catch up but there will probably be a few combined posts with very brief notes on each movie given the gap between me seeing these and writing about them.
Two ghost movies from 2002 that I’ve never seen before in a row? Sure why not. Unlike the previous night’s movie, Ju-on is super super creepy. Like spine tingling creepy. For some reason I still find certain kinds of ghost actually scary, probably because of a creepy furnace room in the hallway to a childhood bedroom and watching stuff like Sightings and The X-Files as an eight year old. This movie features some of the creepier ghosts I’ve experienced through the teevee screen. My girlfriend has just been randomly making weird ghost noises at me since we watched this because of how much it got me.
The story is told very non linearly and it seems to reference the previous direct to video movies in the series, and has some kind of cycle with the first and last people possessed by the ghosts. The story isn’t really critical for this though.
I highly recommend this, especially if you’re totally desensitized to horror. It might actually give you that creeped out feeling many of us stopped being able to feel years ago.
Helloween 2026 Horror Movie #4: Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) by clinton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.