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The Grudge 2
The poster for the film
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
Budget$20 Million[2]

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)[3] and written by Stephen Susco.[4] The film is produced by Sam Raimi and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jenna Dewan, and Edison Chen. As stated by Takashi Shimizu the film is not a remake of Ju-on: The Grudge 2 and does follow a different storyline.[5]

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.[6] The film was released in North America on October 13th[7] after being pushed forward a week from the original October 20th release date.[8][9] The film will be released in United Kingdom on October 20 and in Australia on October 26, 2006.[10]

Tagline: What Was Once Contained, Will Now Be Unleashed

Synopsis

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The Grudge

In The Grudge, Kayako Saeki (Takako Fuji) was a young Japanese woman who developed an unhealthy obsession with an American professor working in Japan. She chronicled her obsession in her diary, which was found by her husband Takeo (Takashi Matsuyama). Takeo then broke his wife's neck, drowned their son Toshio (Yuya Ozeki) in the bathtub along with their cat. He placed his wife in an upstairs closet, and then hung himself. Kayako's vengeful spirit haunted the house, using Toshio and their cat to destroy anyone who came into contact with them, except for a young American social worker named Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar). The Grudge 2 finds Karen in a hospital after attempting to burn down the house following the death of her boyfriend. Three stories follow the lives of Karen's sister Aubrey, three schoolgirls living in Japan, and a family living in Chicago in different time periods.

Aubrey Davis

Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) arrives home in Pasadena, California, where she learns from her ill mother (Joanna Cassidy) that her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has been in an accident in Japan. Despite a strained relationship, Aubrey flies to Tokyo to help her sister, where she meets a reporter named Eason (Edison Chen). He accompanies her to Karen's hospital room, and Karen begs her sister to help her leave and to stay away from the Saeki house. Outside the room, Eason tells Aubrey that he saved Karen from the burning house and that he wants to write a story about her. Meanwhile, Kayako appears to Karen, who escapes her room and flees to the hospital roof. Karen thinks she is safe, but Kayako's hand pulls Karen off of the roof. As Aubrey and Eason exit the hospital, Karen's body lands in front of her stunned sister and Eason.

Aubrey sleeps at her sister's old apartment, after she finds herself unable to tell her mother about her sister's death. Eason sees Kayako in the footage of Nakagawa (Ryo Ishibashi), a Japanese detective who died while investigating Kayako with Karen. He awakens Aubrey, who accompanies him to the Saeki house, despite his warnings. After he finds and reads Kayako's diary, the two go to Eason's friend's apartment, who is an expert on Japanese folklore, and decide to find Kayako's mother. As Aubrey sleeps, Eason develops pictures which become a portal for Kayako to attack and kill him. Aubrey awakens the next morning to an attack by a deceased Eason, who turns into Kayako.

Aubrey gets haunted by Toshio, who plays peek-a-boo with an old man on a bus, as she travels to find Kayako's mother. She discovers Kayako's mother is an exorcist, who would feed the freed evil to her then teenage daughter. After Kayako appears and kills her mother, Aubrey calls her own mother in Pasadena and tells her of Karen's death. She returns to the house, in an attempt to find what Kayako really wants. After seeing an image of Karen from the past climbing the stairs, she follows only to find Takeo reading Kayako's journal. He attacks her and breaks her neck the same way he did to Kayako. As Aubrey tries to breathe, she is only able to make the same death rattle noise that Kayako makes. After she watches Takeo kill his son and his cat, Kayako materializes and watches Aubrey die.

The schoolgirls

Allison (Arielle Kebbel) is a new student at the international high school in Tokyo, and there she meets students Vanessa (Teresa Palmer) and Miyuki (Misako Uno). They take her to the Saeki house in order to play a prank on her. The girls convince Allison to enter the closet Kayako's body was stored in, and force the door closed. After Allison screams, the other girls leave, but she is unable to exit the closet until she sees Toshio and what appears to be Kayako.

After they return to school, all three girls deal with hauntings from Toshio, the cat, and Kayako. Miyuki leaves school for an afternoon rendezvous with her boyfriend Michael (Shaun Sipos) at an hourly hotel. While Michael is in the shower, Miyuki sees Toshio under the bed covers, before Kayako kills her by pulling her through a mirror and making her body disappear.

Vanessa and Allison are later interviewed by Principal Dale (Eve Gordon) over the events surrounding Miyuki's disappearance and their trip to the haunted house. Allison is overcome and leaves followed by the principal, while Vanessa attempts to text Miyuki. Hauntings by Toshio and the cat drives her from the school and into a phone booth, where she is consumed and killed by Kayako.

Allison is again called to the principal's office, where she reveals her belief that she and anyone who goes to the house has been cursed. Principal Dale reveals that she went to the house, as ghostly versions of Miyuki and Vanessa appear. Principal Dale then turns into a ghost as well and advances on Allison.

Chicago

In Chicago, Trish (Jennifer Beals) has recently married Bill (Christopher Cousins), and is moving into the apartment he shares with his daughter Lacey (Sarah Roemer) and son Jake (Matthew Knight). While Lacey and her friend Sally (Jenna Dewan) are friendly with Trish, Jake is distant. The young boy is troubled when the child of his neighbors, the Flemings, moves back in after going insane. At night, he is awakened by a series of loud knockings from the Flemings apartment. Curious, he follows the apartments tenant and spies the person, who is wearing a sweatshirt, getting old newspapers from the trash. After Bill leaves for work, Jake and Lacey leave for school, and Jake notices that all of the windows in his neighbor's apartment are covered with newspaper. Bill, doubting his wife's fidelity, returns home unexpectedly, under the pretext of having forgotten his keys, only to find Trish on the phone with a coworker she identifies as Nate. He actually is holding his own keys which are cutting his own hands though she doesn't notice.

After school, Lacey decides to show off her cheerleader outfit to Sally, who appears ill. Sally drinks then regurgitates milk the same way Toshio's cat had been seen in other parts of the film. Lacey returns home to find Jake shivering in his closet, afraid because Trish and Bill have been fighting. Jake is again awakened by pounding on the walls, and upon investigation discovers his sweatshirt wearing neighbor is a young woman, who is banging her arm on the wall as she furiously cuts her own hair. After seeing ghostly eyes belonging to Miyuki and Vanessa, Jake returns home and spends the night with his sister. That night Toshio appears by Sally's bed, and she stops breathing.

The next morning, after Trish listens to the banging from next door, she begins to make breakfast in a trance. Bill accuses her of having an affair, but she doesn't respond. After Bill criticizes her for burning the bacon, Trish pours the oil from the pan onto his head before killing him with a blow to the head. Lacey and Jake return home to a dark and messy apartment, while the banging from next door continues. As his sister looks for a flashlight, Jake discovers his fathers body. Searching for his sister, Jake finds that she has been drowned in the tub. As he hears Trish calling his name, Jake attempts to revive his sister. An already dead Trish rises from the tub, telling him it's time for his bath, before Toshio pulls her under the water.

Jake flees his apartment as he hears screams from the Flemings apartment. The girl in the sweatshirt turns out to be Allison, from the school in Tokyo, and through a series of flashbacks, we learn that the ghost she saw in the haunted house was actually the spirit of Aubrey Davis. Jake accuses her of bringing something back with her, and she confirms that Kayako's spirit has been freed from her home and is with them in Chicago. Allison sees Kayako climbing down the hallway stairs, but Jake sees the ghost in the hood of Allison's sweat shirt. Kayako's hand appears and pulls Allison into her clothing and Allison's body disappears. Jake reaches for the sweatshirt when Allison's hand grasps his arm. However, it is Kayako's face that comes out of the hood and lurches towards him as the movie ends.

Deaths (in order of appearance)

Character Killer
Bill Trish (possessed by curse)
Karen Kayako
Miyuki Kayako
Vanessa Kayako
Eason Kayako
Sally Toshio
Principal Dale Unknown
Kayako's mother Kayako
Lacey Trish (possessed by curse)
Trish Toshio
Aubrey Takeo
Allison Kayako
Jake Kayako


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Chronology

The Grudge 2 does not follow a linear time line, as events taking place at different times are interspersed between each other.

Deleted Scenes

The names of the deleted scenes are taken from the DVD's 'Special Feature' section.

  • When Closet Door Opens: After Allison was freed from the closet, she finds herself with Eason, who seemed surprised of seeing her in the closet. Two years earlier, when Eason first entered the house, he found the closet after hearing noises from it. The closet was sealed in tapes, and when he removed them, finds Allison in the closet, completely surprised of seeing her. Revealing they are both in a time-loop inside the house within two years period. This would make the chronology of the storylines more complicated and would remove the fact of having three different time periods.
  • Itako's Film: When Aubrey and Eason are at Itako's apartment, they were watching a documentary film of Japanese exorcisms.
  • The Passport: After being terrorized by the ghostly Principal Dale, Miyuki, and Vanessa, Allison ran back to her apartment to pack her belongings and grabbed her passport, trying to get back to Chicago.
  • Aubrey's Dream: On the bus, Aubrey was dreaming of having a loving relationship with her mother. However, the dream slowly deteriate into a nightmare, and her mother cough up her gland out and forcing Audrey to ingest it. Aubrey then woke up, finding on old man playing peek-a-boo with no one.
  • Alternate Ending & Epilogue: After Jake find his family dead, he runs to try to get his neighbors for help, who are all dead. Jake finds Allison, and instead of Kayako's hand appears and pulls Allison into her clothing and Allison's body disappears, she crawled from the apartment's stairs and chasing Allison and Jake. Parts of this scene were used in the official trailer for the film. Karen and Aubrey's mother received a delivery from Japan, a box full of Karen's belonging and Kayoko's journal. When Mrs. Davis takes a look at it, she find some black hairs are attached to the page of it. She drops the journal, and when she picks it up again, finds an eye moving on it. She soon coughs up a decapitated, ghostly head of Aubrey. This kills Mrs. Davis, and her face is identical to Yoko's jawless face in the first film.

Cast

Actor/Actress Role
Sarah Michelle Gellar Karen Davis
Amber Tamblyn Aubrey Davis
Arielle Kebbel Allison Fleming
Edison Chen Eason
Teresa Palmer Vanessa
Misako Uno Miyuki
Ryo Ishibashi Detective Nakagawa
Matthew Knight Jake
Jennifer Beals Trish
Christopher Cousins Bill
Sarah Roemer Lacey
Eve Gordon Principal Dale
Shaun Sipos Michael
Takashi Matsuyama Takeo Saeki
Takako Fuji Kayako Saeki
Ohga Tanaka Toshio
Yuya Ozeki Toshio flaskbacks from The Grudge were used
Paul Jarrett John Fleming
Jenna Dewan Sally

Characters

Main article: List of The Grudge characters

Production

The Grudge 2 was announced 3 days after the release of The Grudge in 2004[11] and was offically fasttracked[12][13] after a positive box office response with the film grossing $110,175,871.[14] In early January 2005 Takashi Shimizu suggested ideas regarding the film's plot. Ideas included the origin of the curse and new character subplots.[15]

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.[16] Principal photography for The Grudge 2 was held at Toho Studios[17] 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[18] for Tamblyn to re-shoot several scenes.[19]

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." [21]

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." [22]

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 was playing an April Fool's joke. A few days later, the site's authenticity was proven, and claims that it was a hoax were dismissed.

Missing Person File: Jason C

To promote the film, Sony released a missing persons file on its official blog[23] stating a student filmmaker known as "Jason C" disappeared a few weeks after visiting the set of the film. The blog originally broadcast interviews with the film's stars including Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn but has been taken over by his roommate who filed the report.[24]

Short films

On September 19, 2006 Yahoo! Movies was the first site to release three short films titled "Tales from the Grudge" with an introduction from one of the producers of The Grudge Sam Raimi. The series of short expands on the story of The Grudge curse.[25] The shorts also appear on the film's official site Sony Pictures Entertainment, here fans who volunteer their mobile phone number, will get surprise calls from Kayako or Toshio. The films are also available on other film and horror related web sites as part of a wide reaching and unique digital marketing strategy.[26]

The shorts were directed by Toby Wilkins Official Site, IMDb page, and Written by Ben Ketai.

Tales from The Grudge

These short films are also available in the DVD's "Special Feature' section. There is an introduction by Sam Raimi.

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  • Part 1: - is the first in the series of shorts. It introduces Ross (played by Daniel Sykes) as he wakes up in a Tokyo hotel room and coughs up quantities of Kayako's black hair (a possible reference to The Ring). He wakes from this nightmare to the sound of his mobile phone he answers to his girlfriend's voice, Abby (played by Stefanie Butler) who is safe at home in the US. Ross explains that his attempts to investigate the house and the woman with long black hair have lead to a dead end. When the phone call ends, we stay with Ross as he takes a photo of himself with his mobile phone and sends it to Abby. Ross then goes to brush his teeth and finds black hair in his toothbrush before being grabbed through the mirror by Kayako.
  • Part 2: - is the second short film in which we follow the story of Abby as she ends the phone call from the first short. Abby then proceeds to call her friend, Brooke (played by Ginny Weirick) to ask about plans that evening. When the call ends, Abby receives a photo message from her boyfriend Ross (from the first short). When Abby looks closer at the image, she sees that Kayako is in the hotel room with Ross. Abby attempts to call her boyfriend and warn him, but she only hears Kayako and then it hangs up. Abby looks over at the girl that was sitting beside her to see Kayako.
  • Part 3: - is the third short film that overlaps during the events in School. The film opens with Brooke (as introduced in the second short) receiving a phone call from Abby. As the call ends, Brooke agrees to play hide and seek with the child, Josh, who she is babysitting and chooses a walk-in closet as her hiding place. Brooke soon finds herself trapped and is dragged violently into the underworld by Kayako. Josh then gets up and says "Come out, come out, wherever you are." before Brooke's cellphone begins ringing.

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Release

Premiere

The Grudge 2 premiered at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California on October 8th, 2006. During the premiere, the theme park was open to the public and featured a Grudge 2 maze as part of its 2006 Halloween Haunt.[27]

Reception

The film was one of three films not shown to film critics on the release date (others included The Marine and One Night With The King).[28] The film has a freshness of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes (2 out of 25 reviews counted fresh).[29]

The film has received a weighted average[30] rating of 4.8/10 at the Internet Movie Database.[31] The film has recieved criticisms from several critics regarding a poor plot. Keith Phipps from The A.V. Club stated, "While The Grudge 2 deserves some credit for creating and sustaining a creepy atmosphere, it doesn't matter much when the plot doesn't go anywhere".[32] Pete Vonder Haar from Film Threat stated, "The same problems that plagued the original are on display here. Most notably, the lack of any coherent plot".[33] Paul Debrudge from Variety stated, "The Story is incidental, as auds merely anticipate the scares".[34] Tim Goernert from Joblo stated, "For the most part, I found it really hard to follow the story as well, as there were three of them happening at the same time".[35]

The film has also been criticised as being eye candy. Terry Lawson from Detroit Free Press stated, "The Grudge 2 is just a mélange of images, some mildly disturbing, but mostly just variations on a theme".[36] The film has generated "genrally negative reviews" with an average score of 34/100 on Metacritic and 4.2/10 from members.[37]

Box Office

The film opened in 3,211 theatres and was expected to generate $27 Million on the October 13th - 15th weekend[38] but generated $9,710,000 on its opening day[39] and $22 million on its opening weekend, 9 million from 10/13/06, 7 million 10/14/07, 3 million 10/15/07. The film currently has earned $39.1 million at the US Box Office, and 64 million worldwide.[40]

Sequel

Main article: The Grudge 3

During post-production on the film, Takashi Shimizu discussed ideas of creating another sequel, "During the script meeting, Our ideas didn't go anywhere good, and we couldn't come up with anything interesting to stop the curse, so if that's the case, I would rather just go for something that could never be stopped. But who knows, maybe something can be stopped in The Grudge 3.[41] During Comic Con 06, Sony offically announced plans of creating the sequel.[42] Takashi Shimizu stated he is offered to direct the sequel but would rather produce the film instead.[43]

Release information

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The following is a list of the films release dates worldwide.

Country Date
Netherlands October 13, 2006
Canada October 13, 2006
USA October 13, 2006
United Kingdom October 20, 2006
Philippines October 22, 2006
Australia October 26, 2006
Germany October 26, 2006
Brazil October 27, 2006
Sweden October 27, 2006
Finland November 3, 2006
Croatia December 07, 2006
France December 27, 2006

DVD

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The Grudge 2 unrated DVD

The Grudge 2 was released on DVD and UMD video for the PSP on February 6, 2007. Both are available in a rated and unrated director's cut format. The unrated format is 6 minutes longer than the rated version.

Both DVD formats include the following extras:

  • Tales from The Grudge
  • Cast & Crew reel change montage
  • Four Featurettes:
    • Holding a Grudge: Kayako & Toshio
    • East meets west
    • Grudge 2 Storyline Development
    • Ready when you are: Mr. Shimizu
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Outtakes

Trivia

  • Toshio isn't portrayed by Yuya Ozeki, the actor from Ju-on 1 and 2 (theater versions), instead he is portrayed by a newcomer Ohga Tanaka. They gave him credit for being in some scenes and flashbacks.
  • In the scene with were Vanessa cowers under the desk while her phone is ringing, after she stands up and answers the phone and hears the howling voice, she throws the phone onto the ground. There is a brief moment where the camera shows the phone on the floor. The phones display is illuminated even though the battery cover and battery have detached from the back of the phone. This scene occurs at 1:00:11.
  • The role of Vanessa, now played by Teresa Palmer was originally written for Vanessa Lengies, who eventually turned it down to film My Suicide; the part still bears her name.[44]
  • Actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn previously worked together on an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer titled "All the Way".[45]
  • Kayako's makeup took 2 hours to apply before filming.[46]
  • Writer Stephen Susco claims that the movie went through 5-6 versions of the script. Sarah Michelle Gellar's role was the hardest. In one version, she's in almost every scene. In another, she's in about half of the film. In one, she's only in a couple scenes; and in one, she's not in the story at all. Because the circumstances of the production kept changing, the role of Karen Davis was mutable through much of the development process.

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