The writer and director of Ju-On: The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu, created the original story as the third installment in the larger Japanese franchise, Ju-On, which Shimizu started in 1998. The original The Grudge was released in 2002, and after the success of The Ring in the US, Shimizu was asked to remake his own film for American audiences. More often than not, Americanized versions of foreign films fall flat, but under Shimizu’s directorial hand, the 2004 American remake of The Grudge, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland, and Clea DuVall, was successful. Watch The Grudge 2020 online movie […]