{"id":1436,"date":"2005-06-11T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-02-23T06:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:33:51","slug":"the-grudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2005\/06\/11\/the-grudge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here we have a movie with Buffy in it&#8230;but it&#8217;s not Buffy, of course.  She just watches everyone around her die, loses a boyfriend, and encounters horrid supernatural crap.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nActually, even with her being in the film, it was okay.  It reminded me a lot of <em>The Ring<\/em>, which makes sense.  And it wasn&#8217;t just that thing with the eye and the hair.<\/p>\n<p>There was a scene where this shadowy person shows up on a security video and moves around very much like that Ring girl that came out of the TV.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, and the thing on the stairs that looked slightly worse &#8212; in the &#8216;wrong&#8217; sense and not the &#8216;low budget&#8217; sense &#8212; than the Exorcist stair-walk scene, and that bit where the dead girl had the strange Tooth Fairy mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Tooth fairy.  <em>Darkness Falls<\/em>.  Worse movie.<\/p>\n<p>Either that, or she had a run-in with the head-contraption from <em>Saw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that thing reminded me of <em>City of Lost Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Which, by the way, was really a very good movie.  Aside from the whole &#8216;it&#8217;s all in French&#8217; thing.  And you really do have to watch it in French, with the English subtitles, because the dub doesn&#8217;t quite capture the tone of the original language sometimes.  There&#8217;s something slightly lost&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, um, yeah.  That&#8217;s it then.  If you really want to take advice from someone online about what you&#8217;re going to waste money renting, the order would be <em>City of Lost Children, The Grudge<\/em> and anything but <em>Darkness Falls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we have a movie with Buffy in it&#8230;but it&#8217;s not Buffy, of course. She just watches everyone around her die, loses a boyfriend, and encounters horrid supernatural crap. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-na","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}