Deborah Woehr

The best part about this film was the scene where a wife pours hot bacon grease over her husband’s head for bitching at her about a late/burned breakfast. She finished him off with a good whack of her pan. I actually hooted and clapped inside the movie theater over that one.

As for the rest of The Grudge 2, it was almost identical to the first. If you haven’t seen the first movie, the second will fill you in about how the ghost came to be and why she’s out to kill. Rent the first if you want to get to know the character of Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and why she is in the hospital in the beginning of Grudge 2.

After the movie was over, I was talking to my mother-in-law (who went with me) about how they could have expanded on the Japanese rituals for exorcism. That would have added some depth to this film. There were some other things that bugged us about the movie, but I don’t want to spoil it for those of you who want to go see it.

If I had to do it all over again, I’d think twice before paying the movie theater price and wait for it to come out on video. It wasn’t a bad movie, but it was the typical “more of the same” sequel.