Nothing is worse than scaring ourselves in the beginning of 2020, but we all like it; we like the idea of paying the money to get scared. Well my freinds and I have just seen The grudge 2020, and we almost shitted ourselves.
I had not been a fan of horror movies, but I kept on going to the cinema to see them. I don’t think it really matters. The thing is I wasn’t extremely interested in seeing that movie we just saw this evening. I used to hear a lot about that particular movie, which is originated from Japan. The original title is Ju-on: the grudge. There are a few sequels. Today we saw the fourth.
I thought I had seen worse. I have all the Conjurings and other horror movies. I mentioned the Conjurings just to make a comparison. Since it’s the first movie I have seen so far this year (today is January 2nd, 2020), I would like to share with everyone my thoughts.
First off, the movie is worth spending time and money if you seek to be scared. I would say it was terrifying. Most of the audience were screaming and shutting their eyes. It was funny to me, though. Yeah, I did a few times, too. The storyline seems to be great and the cast did a very good job in portraying each character. I felt like I was there too. I was trying to predict what was going to happen. Isn’t it what we do when we are in the theatre watching ghost movies? I was lucky enough to get some plots and scenes right. However, the director did an excellent job. He actually scared me.
I had seen its trailer a few times to get some ideas about what was going on. And that helped me a lot to figure out the story and understand the plots.
Something about the visual effects is on point. The dirtiness and creepiness are kinda disgustingly great. The scenes and sounds work together pretty well, which makes other things coherent.
If you watch close enough, you will see some numbers shown a few, if not many, times: 14 and 44. Number 4 is considered death in Asian culture, at least in Japan’s. Meaning that the director and the screenplay writer were trying to connect us to another reality of cinematic world.
The only thing I don’t like about the movie is something that makes the movie great. I hate how disturbing the graphic is. Every scene that involves the ghost or spirit or death or kills, the parts look too badly good that I was hoping to not remember any of them.
In my opinion, I was not completely terrified by the movie itself. I felt just terrible about a friend of my whom I still regret not having enough time with. Triggered. It reminded me of him. Like a lot. I wasn’t scared as expected, for I kinda understand the fact that it was just a movie. Despite my abovementioned ideas, The grudge is a go-to movie for 2020 in the horror catagory.
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