Sony’s reboot of TheGrudge from producer Sam Raimi comes at a time when Hollywood has largely moved away from the remakes of Japanese and Korean horror films
, each exercises in proving just how miserable the supernatural can make things, and necessary tonal shifts from the emotionally rewarding optimism of’s approach is how little it makes use of familiar vengeful spirit, Kayako , done in a way so that the film doesn’t blame American fears on Asian culture or representation.
We’re given an uncomfortably intimate look into the lives of the people in this story, and as a result the grudge feels less like something connected to a story in Tokyo than it is to the subconscious. There’s something deeply unsettling about who the film’s victims are and how the curses seem to be playing on the deepest, and darkest subconscious desires, unspeakable things given form in reality. The grudge in this case plays less like an external force and more like an internal sickness.
The idea of the grudge being a sickness is given a visual motif through cigarettes in the film. Det. Muldoon’s husband died of cancer and she’s an ex-smoker. Her partner, Detective Goodman tells her about his mother who died of cancer, and admits that it’s a hard way to go while taking a drag. And Muldoon, once she becomes caught up in the house on Reyburn returns to smoking.
Yellow, a color long associated with sickness and unease, becomes a visual motif in the film, with cinematographer Zack Galler playing with tones of the color as the story goes on, until by the end, the film is drenched in it, permeated by this sense of sickness.
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