YMMV / The Grudge (2020)

• Ass Pull: Fiona being Yoko and Karen's predecessor as the caretaker for the family at the cursed house in Japan. It especially stands out as Karen had the excuse of being in another country as a college student, while Fiona has a husband and child back home in the states and yet is inexplicably working as a home care worker in Japan just to get her in the cursed house and then leave to spread it to the states.
• Memetic Mutation: The film's infamous ending of a final shot of the Spencer's house after Muldoon is taken by the curse has made rounds on the internet due to how it feels empty and borderline Narmy at best. It arguably is the reason the international release got an alternative ending where Muldoon and her son instead just move into the Spencer's home, unaware that it's another conduit for the curse.
• Narm: The film’s advertising played up the fact that it was rated R and thus Darker and Edgier... and went completely over the top with showing that. Not only is the rating block enlarged and shown at every opportunity on the trailers and posters, but most promos for the film had the “R” in the title highlighted in bright red. Not only is an R rating a trend already associated with the majority of the horror genre, but it wasn’t even the first Grudge movie to get that rating; the little-known DTV installment The Grudge 3 earned the rating about a decade earlier.
• Nightmare Fuel: At best, the ending, despite some Narm. After she thinks the curse is gone and is now more happier, Muldoon goes to hug her son as he leaves for school... except Burke calls out to her that he's off to school. Cue Muldoon realizing she's hugging Melinda and then is dragged away by Fiona's ghost, arguably to be killed and become a part of the curse, screaming in horror. Aside from the Narm scene, it's rather effective.
• Replacement Scrappy: Fiona and Melinda replace the iconic Kayako and Toshio as the vengeful ghosts that carry out the curse. Many fans disliked this change, deeming them less interesting and utilized less effectively than Kayako and Toshio. Many fans even compare it to having Halloween without Michael Myers or Friday the 13th without Jason Voorhees.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Most people attribute the best moments of the movie to John Cho and Lin Shaye, who did the best they could with the material that they were given.

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