Urine for an all-new take on TheGrudge, care of Nicolas Pesce
, that early 2000s supernatural Japanese horror series, has the dubious honor of benefitting and suffering from the conditions of its Blu-ray and VOD release at the same time. In the Good News department, the film’s audience may increase now that folks are stuck in their homes and yearning for escapist entertainment.
In a major case of Bad News, it’s hard to escape the stress of COVID-19 quarantines by watching a horror picture about an American who brings a lethal, easily transmitted virus back home with her following a stay in a faraway Asian country.
The film mostly follows Detective Muldoon , new in town, new to her precinct and balancing the hirewire act of single motherhood with her son, Burke , as she investigates a fresh spate of grudge-related murders in 2006. The more she learns about the Landers house, where this new grudge began, the more the narrative cuts back to 2004 and 2005.
Pesce’s structure hobbles plot and character development alike. Each thread could have functioned as a standalone film about the terrible consequences of presuming safety in a world menaced by invisible dangers. The scariest shot Pesce puts together here isn’t the one where Shaye chops off her fingers or Cho attacks Gilpin with kitchen shears, but the one where Cho.
Three films into his career, Pesce is batting below average: Last year, he dropped his inventive sophomore stunner,The Eyes of My Motherand combine with studio horror’s “just play the hits” ethos, resulting in one of the year’s most unpleasant releases to date. There’s value in giving this movie a critical reevaluation during this time of national duress, but it won’t come out the other side looking less like a piss-take.
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