Sarah Michelle Gellar

’The Grudge’ leaves our reviewer with a grudge!

Movie name: "The Grudge"

Genre: Horror

Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr and a couple of people no one knows.

Overall: Save your money for food.

Plot: Sarah Michelle Gellar is in Japan to take care of people incapable of living by themselves. She finds out that one of her customers’ houses is haunted and all that good stuff. Ghosts pop out; a typical horror film follows.

Does it deserve its rating? Its rating shouldn’t be PG-13. If I could, I would give it an F-minus for failure and a half.

Favorite scene: The best scene is in the very beginning. A guy is standing on his balcony, and then he throws himself off it. Then you find out his reason for suicide is idiotic.

Leave on the cutting-room floor: As the plot progresses, the suicide scene—once the favorite—should have been done away with. There was no more reason to show it than there was reason for him to kill himself.

Top performer: Sarah Michelle Gellar because she’s hot.

Flop performer: Sarah Michelle Gellar because she looked like she was going to laugh when she should have been scared or crying.

Compare it to: If you want to see a good film of an Asian remake, see "The Ring" or "The Eye." Both were better than this disgrace to the horror genre. Buffy couldn’t act when she owned her own show, and she can’t act when she tries to speak Japanese.

Afterthoughts: The only thing I got out of this was a lower grade on my English paper, which I should have been writing instead of seeing this darn movie.

AUSTIN ROBLES is a junior at the Principia Upper School.