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Sarah Michelle Gellar - "The Grudge 2" Movie Is On The Way

Tuesday 26 October 2004, by Webmaster

And Raimi’s Ghost House Picture announces next scary fillum

For various reasons, the Empire online team hadn’t actually gotten round to seeing The Grudge - the Sam Raimi-produced, Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring remake of the Takashi Shimizu Japanese scarefest - so we slunk off yesterday to a top London screening room to take in the sights and sounds of America’s new no. 1 film.

Well, the sounds anyway - for we all found the damn thing so scary that we viewed it through a collective web of fingers, and jumped in our seats every time that freaky little kid with the black eyes appeared. It was, without doubt, the most frightening thing we’ve seen since we opened our last pay packet.

But since we actually enjoy having the fear of God struck into us, it’s with a perverse delight that we welcome the news that a sequel to the movie is looking likely, after its debut at the US box office this weekend raked in a whopping $39.1 million.

"’The Grudge 2’ is now being fast-tracked, as we speak, and we’re now working on the details," producer Roy Lee told our good chums (actually, we’ve never met them, and they could smell for all we know) at Creature Corner. Those details will, of course, include the possible return of any of the original movie’s surviving stars (if there are any - we’re not giving it away!), but we’re hoping that the freaky little kid suffers a sudden outbreak of puberty.

In other Sam Raimi-related news, though, Ghost House Pictures, the company that he set up with fellow Evil Dead cohort Robert Tapert with the sole purpose of making horror movies galore, has announced its next project. The curiously-titled Dibbuk Box, which will be written by The Grudge remake scribe Stephen Susco, revolves around another curse that strikes a family - this time in the form of an old box containing mysterious and deadly tokens that is mysteriously purchased. Altogether now: oooooooh!

Dibbuk Box will be based on a magazine article about an ancient wooden box which contained an evil spirit, and which was brought to America by a Holocaust survivor. Naturally, the box wound up being sold on eBay, which can cause all sorts of havoc with its sale and return form. ‘Reason for complaint?’ ‘Box contained evil demon type thing which killed family and rearranged items in my fridge.’

Other movies on Ghost House’s slate include the forthcoming Boogeyman, which is scheduled for next summer, and the long-awaited adaptation of the Alaskan-set vampire comic book, 30 Days Of Night, which Raimi himself has shown an interest in directing.

So rejoice, people, for scares are back back back in a big way. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to confront the most frightening thing of all: the Northern Line in the morning.