[James]

Ju-On: The Grudge was an excellent movie. But people either love it or hate it.

Frankly, it's the only movie in a LONG time to really freak me out. I greatly appreciate the film's slow-build suspense, versus the typical jump-out-at-you method that American films use (What was that? Oh, something's gonna happen! Oh, nothing happened. OH SHIT SOMETHING HAPPENED!).

The movie is very suspenseful and very unsettling if you can really get into it (watching it in the pitch black of night by myself, with headphones on so that fucking awful noise went right into my brain). But if you can't get into it, you will hate it. The film is still really well done, though.

Ju-On: The Grudge 2 wasn't a BAD movie by any stretch. But after you've been exposed to Ju-On, you're better prepared for any other films in the series that you see. But the sequel did have some very good moments.