Synopsis

A young Japanese woman holds a secret to ending the curse of the Grudge. She travels to a haunted Chicago apartment building where she encounters a family battling to survive the ghosts. Together they confront the ghost of Kayako to save their souls from their impending tragic fate.

Official Review

Immediately following the horrifying and convoluted events of The Grudge 2, the prologue for The Grudge 3 begins with Dr. Sullivan (Shawnee Smith, Queen of the SAW Franchise) interviewing Jake, the sole survivor of the haunting in Chicago. Having watched his stepmother murder his entire family, young Jake is understandably unsettled, cowering in a psychiatric hospital, fretting about Kayeko’s ghost, and Dr. Sullivan’s solemn vow (“I promise. I won’t ever let anything bad happen to you.”) does little to assuage his fears. Sure enough, moments after being left alone in his room, Jake is grabbed by a pair of pasty white hands, and a security guard watches on a monitor as Jake is tossed around the hospital room by an invisible force, bounced off the walls and ceiling and tiled floor until “practically every bone in his body is broken”. This, unfortunately, is the best scene of the movie.* …Read More