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The first film Ju On: The Grudge, is personally one of the scariest films I have seen so I had high expectations of the sequel. I was sadly disappointed.

Ju On: The Grudge 2 really was a pointless exercise in film-making, that starts off poorly, barely keeps it's head above water in the middle & completely falls apart in the final third, it appears that the good ideas were used in the first film.

Sure you can get away with a lot in the world of horror but too many of the plot twist were just comically absurd & the whole Chiharu sub-plot was completely irrelevant to anything else in the film & didn't need to be there.

The whole rebirth concept reminded me a lot of the first Ringu sequel(Rasen) & guess what, it didn't really work for that series either but I did think that one it's own Rasen was a better film than Grudge 2.

sorry it's really movie i couldn't understand at all first of all the name's were very strange to me then the plot was very confused the relationships between the characters of the movie another mystery what's happened to the mother is she died ? a lot of questions which you will never get an answer to them it's really so bad but still the main idea of the movie is not so bad this haunted house and whoever connect with it is disappeared by somehow i think i like it maybe the language has it's effect my mother tongue is Arabic and as you know we all used to English but Japanaise is very unfamiliar . It could be .the end of it was so mysterious don't get the meaning of this young girl with the mother and why she killed her

Many fans of Ju-On 2 praise it as one of the best movies in the Ju-On franchise, and sometimes even better than the original.

It is viewed as some sort of hidden gem, or downright masterpiece.

I think that if I had watched this in 2003 on a flickering VHS tape when I was a teenager I might have agreed, but watching it in 2025 for the first time... no... this is not good.

The movie makes no sense, the plot is all over the place jumping back and forth between characters.

Kayako making guttural sounds with a painted face is just not scary. There's not even that much of Kayako in this movie.

They try to be clever by using forboding, almost time travel scares, but I don't think it works at all.

White body paint just isn't scary, I don't know who gets scared by this.

The Ringu trilogy (before they got sucked in to the American remakes) is fantastic, but this equivalent sequel to Ringu - coming out the year before the American Remake in 2004 is terrible.

It fails on its own, or as a sequel and just cannot be recommended.

I'd read that Ju-on 2 was more frightening than the original—not a difficult feat in my opinion, since I found the first film not in the slightest bit scary—but it turned out to be another 92 minutes of equally lame ghostly nonsense in which the viewer is once again expected to be terrified by a small boy in face paint and mascara, and a slow moving, long-haired woman with a bad case of laryngitis.

Director Takashi Shimizu's film follows a series of characters as they encounter the dreaded Ju-on curse; each section is painfully slow, the plot becomes progressively more incomprehensible, repeatedly scooting backwards and forwards along its time-line, and there are several lamentable attempts at freaking out the audience, including the pale lad popping up in the driver's foot-well of a car (hilarious), a football transforming into the boy's head (terrible FX), an attack by a wig (predictable), and the croaky woman emerging from moist places (a damp stain on a carpet and from between a woman's legs).