Resentful ghost Kayako (Takako Fuji) and her sinister toddler (Yuya Ozeki) extend their curse when a TV company films a reality show in their haunted house. As with all Grudge films, the story is told out of chronological order — a device which reaches almost Memento proportions as a car accident caused by the ghost, the chilly fates of various personnel, an unnatural pregnancy and the return of Kayako to fleshly form are shuffled onscreen.
As a sequel, it has a few wilder stretches — including a camp moment with a crawling evil wig — and a tendency to abandon all attempts at narrative sense. It benefits from director Takashi Shimizu’s use of sparse, gloomy Japanese interiors, while the mostly-female cast project terrified prettiness very well.
