This Terrifying J-Horror Remake Is Now Streaming For Free!
The early aughts launched a wave of horror remakes, but they’re especially known as an era full of American remakes of Japanese horror classics. One such adaptation is Takashi Shimizu‘s 2004 film, The Grudge, based on the Japanese film Ju-On: The Grudge, which Shimizu directed in 2002. It’s not often the original director is brought on for the American adaptation, so this is a fascinating film even for just that reason.
In the film, “An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.“
The Grudge stars horror icon Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Jason Behr (Roswell) and Clea DuVall (The Faculty). It was a massive hit upon release, raking in a reported $187.3 million on a $10 million budget. It was released when I was a kid, and it was the talk of the schoolyard, especially when you had a friend who wasn’t chicken enough to actually watch it. Thanks to Shimizu’s direction, the 2004 film is simply terrifying, chock-full of scares and screeching children.
If you’ve been craving a rewatch, I have great news: The Grudge is streaming now for free on VIZIO WatchFree+!
But this horror remake isn’t the only genre film streaming for free this month on VIZIO WatchFree+. Check out their full May lineup below!
House at the End of the Street
After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy. A double murder is not an accident.
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games), Elisabeth Shue (The Boys), Max Thieriot (Jumper)
The Cabin in the Woods
A group of kids go to a remote cabin in the woods where their fate is unknowingly controlled by technicians as part of a world-wide conspiracy where all horror movie clichés are revealed to be part of an elaborate sacrifice ritual.
Cast: Kristen Connolly (The Happening), Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok), Anna Hutchison (Robert the Bruce)
Warm Bodies
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Cast: Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy), Teresa Palmer (Mix Tape), John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich)
Saw
Two men awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other or face consequences. These two are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer.
Cast: Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Leigh Whannell (Wolf Man), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon)
Leprechaun
An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
Cast: Warwick Davis (Willow), Jennifer Aniston (Office Space), Ken Olandt (April Fools Day)
Evil Dead II
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Cast: Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness), Sarah Berry (C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud), Dan Hicks (Spider-Man 2)
The Crazies
After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.
Cast: Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Danielle Panabaker (The Flash)
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it’s up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
Cast: Rose McGowan (Charmed), Freddy Rodríguez (Harsh Times), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men)
The Call
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple’s door.
Cast: Lin Shaye (Insidious), Tobin Bell (Saw), Chester Rushing (Stranger Things)
Terrifier
A maniac named Art the Clown terrorizes two friends on Halloween and everyone who gets in his way.
Cast: Park Shin-hye (Heirs), Jeon Jong-seo (Burning), Kim Sung-ryung (Queen of Ambition)
Terrifier 2
Resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County to terrorize a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
Cast: Lauren LaVera (Iron Fist), David Howard Thornton (Gotham), Elliott Fullam (Instinct)
Mark of the Witch
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
Cast: Robert Elston (George Washington), Anitra Walsh (Dealing: Or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues), Darryl Wells (The Nurses)
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