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The Grudge Creator Takashi Shimizu’s New Horror Movie Treads Familiar but Unsettling Turf
Filmmaker Takashi Shimizu is best known for creating the Ju-On: The Grudge franchise in Japan; he also directed the first two American films in the Grudge series. Other films of his that made it stateside include Resurrection, which like The Grudge focuses on a specific location where something awful has happened — a place brimming…
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The Grudge Director Addresses Ju-On Creator’s Absence And Honouring The Franchise
The latest film in Sony’s The Grudge series has a noticeable absence: Takashi Shimizu, the creator of Ju-On and the person who brought The Grudge to the United States. This has led some fans to wonder if the series should continue without him, but the director behind the latest version promises that it’s a “love…