A Brutal Review of Grudge 3

Brutal As Hell
The site is Brutal As Hell, the review itself is actually pretty great. The reviewer proclaims himself “not a huge fan of sequels” or of the Grudge franchise as a whole, but seems to really dig this one. Here are a few quotes, and he gives The Grudge 3 a glowing 3.5/5 skulls. This should be welcome news to Sam Raimi, who was keen to make this installment work not only as part of the series, but also able to stand on its own. 

“First is the admirable direction of Toby Wilkins… He builds tension through the use of creative camera work as well as the utilization of talented actress Aiko Horiuchi who plays the ghostly Kayako. Horiuchi delivers a heck of a performance…”

“The film manages to pull off a remarkable feat of being not only watchable, but entertaining…”  ”When credits rolled I had to surprisingly admit to myself how much of a good time I had with this film.”

“Gil McKinney puts on his best Jack Nicholson… …It was both a believable descent into madness, as well as an enjoyable one to watch.”

“…genuine scares, and frightful moments.”

“Anyone can slide right in, catch up on the back story, and enjoy this satisfying ghost story.”

“Miraculously, a franchise wrought with unoriginality proved to be able to bring some real entertainment value to the table making this for a heck of a fun film to watch.”

You can read the full review, and explore the extensive review site HERE. They also published a great little review of Splinter back when it was in theatres saying it succeeded in “pushing the siege formula to new levels.”  You can read the rest of that HERE.

Film Intuition Reviews The Grudge 3

Jen Johans reviews The Grudge 3 for her extensive database/blog of over 1,000 film reviews. She has the following to say about the film:

“we get a strong sense… that at last we have a halfway decent plot.”

“[Wilkins] and his screenwriter Brad Keene must be commended for successfully building a good source of dramatic conflict with the revelation that the ‘curse’ of Kayako could have a solution once and for all.”

“[The Grudge 3] is the first one to fully reboot the franchise for American audiences by still retaining but reshaping the great origin story… Likewise, it makes me think that’s perhaps what should have been done all along to make better quality American versions that stand alone as worthwhile rather than simply ripping off Shimizu’s stylistically inventive original.”

“The deaths move from mysterious to grisly in increasingly horrific fashion until everything comes to a head in a truly pulse-pounding… blood-and-guts spattered ending.”

You can read the whole article HERE. 

Flash Bang Action Reviews "The Grudge 3"

UK based film blog Flash Bang: Action Movie Reviews has been at it again. You may recall reading their glowing 7/10 review of Splinter a little while ago, and now, with baited breath, they have reviewed my second feature The Grudge 3 and given it a 6/10. You can read the review HERE. 

One piece of trivia, I just discovered that the reviewer, who goes by the name Wayfarer, is based in a city that’s about ten miles from the town in which I was born.