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'Ju-On: The Grudge is more like a reel through a house – or rather a world – of horror, than entertainment with a beginning, middle and end. It's like being caught in a bad dream, with evil gaining and no way out – save a death too horrible to endure. The haunted house where most of the film's action takes place is a mouldy firetrap that sits apart from its neighbours in a jungle of weeds. Rika, a "home helper", come to care for bedridden woman who is the owner's mother. When she arrives, she finds the old girl in a state of shock, unable to utter a word. Hearing rustling on the second floor, Rika investigates and, in the children's room, sees something that frightens the living wits out of her. Backtrack a few days, when the old woman's son returns home to find his wife prostrated and speechless. He becomes determined to find out why. What he finds, though, is beyond all reason – and unhinges his worst fear.' Bergen International Film Festival