When it comes to horror movies, I’m definitely a big fan. If there’s a horror movie that has been released that has caught the public’s eye, odds are, I’ve already seen it. When I first saw the movie trailer for, ‘The Grudge‘ (2020), I knew that on opening day, I would be there.

“The Grudge (2020)” Movie Trailer

I was super excited to see this movie after being traumatized as a child by the pale lady with long hair who made that iconic terrifying “uhhhhhhhhh” sound with her voice (y’all know what it is) and crawled around like a fucking spider in the original movie which was released in 2004. So, when I heard that the remake of ‘The Grudge‘ was scheduled to be released on January 3, 2020, I knew that I’d be there on opening day because who doesn’t want to shit their pants in the movie theater?

via. ‘The Grudge’ (2004), I mean c’mon, look at the scary spider bitch.

The new grudge movie took place in Pennsylvania from the years 2004 to 2006. The movie bounces back and forth between the timelines of multiple characters including characters played by John Cho, Andrea Riseborough, and Lin Shaye who’d played the beloved character, Elise, in the Insidious movies. In this movie Shaye wouldn’t play a female heroine who fought against the supernatural, instead, she played a creepy old lady who, if you’d seen the trailer, was crazy enough to chop off her own fingers (it was fucking disgusting). The characters whose timelines the movie bounced back and forth between had one thing in common, they all had been inside the “grudged house”. After a family was brutally murdered in their Pennsylvania home, the house had been cursed and whoever entered the house would be haunted by the very family that had died inside, and let me tell you, that family is not very nice looking.

‘The Grudge’ (2020)

Overall, I would say that if you’re looking to get scared from a movie, this is the movie to see. Besides the entities of the “grudged house” looking absolutely terrifying, there a lot of pop scares that are sure to make you jump out of your seats. One of my friends who I went to see the movie with kept complaining that he couldn’t stop sweating because he was so scared, and I will admit that some of the pop scares really got to me as well. Like most horror movies nowadays, the story was okay, not great, but who really goes to see a horror movie for the story? I watch horror movies for a good scare and if you want one, go see ‘The Grudge‘ (2020), in theaters now.