{"id":282231,"date":"2019-10-22T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1085003"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:10:29","slug":"15-spooky-secrets-about-the-grudge-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/15-spooky-secrets-about-the-grudge-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Spooky Secrets About The Grudge Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019922\/rs_600x600-191022080518-600-Sarah-Michelle-Gellar-The-Grudge-LT-102219-shutterstock_editorial_1984068h.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.754871794872\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.032820512821\">\n<p>15 years ago, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sarah_michelle_gellar\">Sarah Michelle Gellar<\/a><\/strong> faced down a danger that would scare off even the most fearless of slayers.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Grudge<\/em>, a remake of the 2002 Japanese horror film <em>Ju-on<\/em>, the actress starred as Karen Davis, an American social worker new to Tokyo who begins work as a caretaker for an elderly woman living in a house literally haunted by its gruesome past. it was an important role for Gellar, having just wrapped <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> after seven seasons and fulfilled her two-film&nbsp;contract as Daphne in the live-action <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em> franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was on this hit show. I had this amazing character. I had an obligation to a second <em>Scooby<\/em> movie. And then it was time for me to go, &#8216;OK, what do I want to do with the rest of my life?&#8217; This movie was the first movie that came along where I had this desire in my gut to be a part of it, and it was a feeling I hadn&#8217;t had since <em>Cruel Intentions<\/em>,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/buffy-star-faces-fear-grudge-wbna6275267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Associated Press<\/a> ahead of the film&#8217;s October 22, 2004 release.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>The feeling paid off. <em>The Grudge<\/em> was a surprise success, kickstarting a franchise that spawned two more films, with another\u2014whatever you do, don&#8217;t call it a reboot\u2014coming our way in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In honor of 15 truly terrifying years since <em>The Grudge<\/em> first creeped it way into our lives, let&#8217;s take a look at the 15 spookiest secrets to come out of the franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p><em>The Grudge<\/em> hits theaters on January 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1085003\/15-spooky-secrets-about-the-grudge-franchise?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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In The Grudge, a remake of the 2002 Japanese horror film Ju-on, the actress starred as Karen Davis, an American social worker new to Tokyo who begins work as a caretaker for an elderly woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-16 01:28:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}