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The Grudge 2
File:Thegrudge2 bigreleaseposter.jpg
Directed byTakashi Shimizu
Written byStephen Susco
Produced bySam Raimi
Robert Tapert
StarringSarah Michelle Gellar
Amber Tamblyn
Arielle Kebbel
Teresa Palmer
Jennifer Beals
Matthew Knight
Shaun Sipos
Eve Gordon
Edison Chen
Takako Fuji
Ryo Ishibashi
Misako Uno
CinematographyKatsumi Yanagishima
Edited byJeff Betancourt
Music byChristopher Young
Distributed bySony (USA)
Universal Studios (UK)
Release dates
October 13, 2006 (U.S.)
October 26, 2006 (Aus)
Running time
95 min. [1]
CountryUSA
LanguagesEnglish
Japanese

The Grudge 2 is the 2006 sequel to the 2004 American horror film remake The Grudge. The Grudge 2 is the second film in Sony's The Grudge series and is directed by Takashi Shimizu (director of the original series)[2] and written by Stephen Susco [3]. The film is produced by Sam Raimi and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel and Edison Chen. As stated by Takashi Shimizu the film is not a remake of Ju-on: The Grudge 2 and will follow a different storyline [4]. The film was not screened for critics, but early reviews have been almost universally negative [1].

The film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA and 15 by the BBFC its content of mature thematic material, disturbing images/terror/violence, and some sensuality [5]. The film was released in North America on October 13th [6] after being pushed forward a week from the original October 20th release date [7][8]. The film will be released in United Kingdom on October 20 and in Australia on October 26, 2006[9]. It was also rumored that this was one of the worst movies ever made.

Tagline: What Was Once Contained, Will Now Be Unleashed

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler The film follows three main storylines.

1. After Aubrey (Tamblyn) receives news from her mother (Joanna Cassidy) regarding her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) being involved in an accident in Tokyo, Japan, Aubrey leaves America and heads to Japan. She meets her sister in a hospital, but Karen acts up and makes the doctors sedate her. As Aubrey leaves the hospital, Karen escapes and runs up to the roof of the building, only to be thrown off the roof by Kayako. As Aubrey walks out with Eason, (Edison Chen), whom she met in the hospital, Karen falls to her death right in front of them. Aubrey is shocked and teams up with Eason and tries to find out why Karen died.

2. Three American-exchange schoolgirls in Tokyo enter the burned Saeki house. They go into a bedroom upstairs and eventually encounter a horrific and bloody wraith, crawling with crackling sound from her broken neck, in the Saekis' closet. Soon after, they are constantly haunted by horrifying visions. One meets her fate in a motel room. Another dies in a phonebooth. The last one disappears at the end of the film.

3. A family living in an old apartment building in Chicago experience strange happenings due to a strange neighbor who tapes the inside of her windows with newspapers. In the end it turns out to be the last of the three American-exchange schoolgirls from Japan. She brought the curse with her to America when she returned home, and everyone in the family is wrongfully killed.

Throughout the film, the storyline switches back and forth between the three storylines in a time span of two years. Aubrey goes to Kayako's childhood home and finds her old mother, who used to be a spiritual doctor who would draw out the evil spirits of her patients. Aubrey learns that Kayako had been fed blood of her mother's patients, giving Kayako the spirits and causing her to have what seemed like physical seizures. Aubrey learns that the grudge is not about the house, but about Kayako's rage and suffering. Kayako's mother is killed by Kayako herself, as Aubrey flees back to the cursed house. She goes upstairs into a bedroom (just as Kayako did before she died) and sees Takeo's ghost reading the diary. He drops it and attacks Aubrey (in the same fashion of Kayako). She crawls down the stairs and has her neck broken. In her point of view, she sees Toshio upstairs as Takeo brings him down and drowns him in the bathtub. Aubrey lays on the floor and watches everything Kayako saw. Before she dies, a black figure apears in the kitchen. It walks towards Aubrey. It is Kayako, she looks down at Aubrey. Aubrey dies. It is also revealed that when the schoolgirls were in the house at the beginning of the film (two years after Aubrey dies), it was not Kayako, but Aubrey's ghost. The horror that the American family in Chicago went through took place a couple of months after the three schoolgirls entered the Saeki house.

Cast

Actor/Actress Role
Sarah Michelle Gellar Karen Davis
Amber Tamblyn Aubrey Davis
Arielle Kebbel Allison
Edison Chen Eason
Teresa Palmer Vanessa
Misako Uno Miyuki
Ryo Ishibashi Nakagawa
Matthew Knight Jake
Jennifer Beals Trish
Eve Gordon Principal Dale
Shaun Sipos Michael
Takako Fuji Kayako Saeki
Paul Jarrett John Flemingared
Jenna Dewan Sally

Characters

Main article: List of The Grudge characters

Deaths

In linear order

1. Karen- Karen is sedated for becoming disorderly is then chased throughout the hospital by Kayako, but is ultimately pushed off of hospital roof by Kayako.
2. Eason- While examining pictures of the cursed house, Eason notices a black mark on most of the pictures. He begins to develop one new picture and the black mark begins to move and fills the solution container with black hair. Kayako taunts Eason until she jumps out and clamps on to his head, which scares him to death.
3. Kayako's mother- Aubrey visits Kayako's mother who tells Aubrey that the curse is from Kayako's rage not from the house. Kayako then appears and stares into her mother's eyes putting her into shock and stopping her heart.
4. Aubrey- After settling her relationship with her mother, Aubrey enters the cursed house one last time. She sees Karen walking up the stairs looking for Doug, but as she enters the bedroom Taeko is reading Kayko's journal and the entire sequence of events occurs one more time with Aubrey's neck being snapped.
5. Miyuki- Miyuki gets a hotel room with her boyfriend Michael. Michael steps into the shower and Miyuki hides under the covers only to be tickled by someone under the covers who she assumes to be Michael. She raises the covers and see Michael is still in the shower. She backs up towards a mirror where Kayako becomes her relection and drags her into the unknown.
6. Vanessa- While sitting in the counselor's office, Vanessa desperately tries to contact Miyuki but begins to be stalked by Toshio. She runs out of the office and down the road to a payphone where she attemps to call Miyuki from a phone booth. Kayako answers the phone and Toshio pins Vanessa against the phone booth. Kayko's hair beings to trap Vanessa and the two ladies go face-to-face before Vanessa is completely engulfed.
7. Sally- Sally begins acting odd by drinking gallons of milk only to vomit it back into the container. Later that night Sally is seen gasping for breath and Toshio is seen on the nightstand beside her. Sally takes one final breath as Toshio lets out his chilling meow.
8. John- John continues to accuse Trish of adultry as he eats his freshly cooked bacon. Trish pours the hot grease on John's head and beats him over the head wiht the frying pan.
9. Lacey- Jake stumbles upon his father's body and runs through the house looking for Lacey. He finds her facedown in a bathtub full of water. She seems to have been drowned by Taeko the same way Toshio was.
10.Trish- After finding Lacey, Jake hears strange noises and see Trish in the bathtub. Trish tells Jake it is time for a bath before she is dragged underwater by Kayako.
11.Allison- Jake runs out of his apartment after Trish is dragged underwater to find Allison stumbling out of her own apartment. She desperately asks Jake for help but he notices a pair of eyes in her hoodie. A pair of hands wrap around Allison's head as she is pulled into her own hoodie.
12.Jake- After witnessing multiple deaths, Jake, in a state of shock, picks up the abandoned hoodie. The hoodie fills with the body of Kayako who beings to attack Jake as the screen blacks out.

Production

The Grudge 2 was announced 3 days after the release of The Grudge in 2004[10] and was offically fasttracked[11] [12] after a positive box office response with the film grossing $110,175,871[13]. In early January 2005 Takashi Shimizu suggested ideas regarding the film's plot. Ideas included the origin of the curse and new character subplots [14].

The film was later placed into production hell for almost a year until December 2005, where the first few cast (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Teresa Palmer) members were cast. Other production details were also revealed including the original scheduled date for principal photography which was due to begin January 30, 2006 but was postponed until February [15]. Principal photography for The Grudge 2 was held at Toho Studios [16] in Tokyo, Japan and production wrapped up on April 25, 2006. During an interview on Dread Central with Amber Tamblyn, it was reported that sets were created in Chicago, Illinois [17] for Tamblyn to re-shoot several scenes [18].

Production history

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Amber Tamblyn as Aubrey Davis

Differences from Ju-on: The Grudge 2

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On set of The Grudge 2 with director Takashi Shimizu.

Director Takashi Shimizu stated in an interview with Sci Fi Wire: For The Grudge 2, I was going for this mystery that was never there in The Grudge, and I think that's going to fulfill the audience. ... There's a secret about Kayako's childhood life, so that's part of the big mystery. And the other mystery is, this grudge will never stop, and it's going to ... spread. And how is it going to get spread? That's another mystery." [20]

He also stated that: "The Grudge was a complete remake of Ju-on, meaning the storyline was very similar. Basically, it's the same. But Grudge 2 is actually different from Ju-on 2, and I don't think I would have accepted this job if it was going to be the same storyline. And because it was a different story, you know, my motivation was a bit higher, and I actually enjoy doing this." [21]

Promotion

Teaser Site

On April 1, 2006 a teaser site was launched with details revealing the October 13 release date. Many Database forum sites such as IMDB were swamped with claims that [[Sony Pictures Enter

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