Ju-on: The Curse 2

2000 ‘呪怨2 ビデオ版’ Directed by Takashi Shimizu

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.

Yūrei Yanagi Takako Fuji Takashi Matsuyama Ryôta Koyama Yûko Daike Makoto Ashikawa Tomohiro Kaku Mayuko Saitô Yue Miyako Nakatsuka Kenta Ishikawa Ganko Fuyu Kaori Fujii Hua Rong Weng Taizô Mizumura Harumi Matsukaze Duncan Denden Taro Suwa Reita Serizawa Kiriko Shimizu Nagisa Takemura Hayato Ichihara Akihiro Toyotome Shiori Yonezawa Mashio Miyazaki Kana Kobayashi Kaori Nakajô Risa Odagiri

Alternative Titles

A harag 2., Проклятие 2, Прокляття 2

horror

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Review by Scumbalina ★★★ 2

It's a pet peeve of mine when a sequel uses more than a few minutes to "review" footage from the previous film. When it's done it's usually more like 20 minutes or some crazy chunk of running time. In this case it's roughly half of the film. I wondered why I couldn't remember what happened in this one after only watching it just a few years ago and realized that's why. So much of The Curse 2 IS the Curse 1, they blend together. It follows the real estate agent's family and the next home owners and how they're all inevitably taken by the curse. The only part that really stands out is the school scene. You'll know it when you see it. Like the first time I watched these, I'm glad this happened but I'm ready for the theatrical films because DUH. Ready 2 get scare.
Review by M PJ ★★★

HoopTober 7: I Kick Arse For The Lord
17/31
Second films from franchises
Different, different but SAME,
insofern beinahe eine Enttäuschung. Jetzt läuft das Filmchen ohnehin bloß 76 Minuten, da sind all die Wiederholungen zuviel des Guten, dessen ungeachtet ein Herz, weil diese Reihe gruselig ist, weil sie das traditionelle Thema der zuvorderst weiblichen Rachegeister modern auflegt. In Japan gelten aggressive Damen Patriarchats-bedingt als unfein, gleichsam als unfeminin, bist du aber tot, ist’s einerlei, so funktionieren die Spielregeln, weshalb in Legenden zuvorderst weibliche Gespenster so richtig die Sau raus lassen (vgl. Kuroneko; 1968). Fast glaube ich, dass wir Toshios Gemaunze als kleinen Liebesbrief an diesen wahrhaft schönen Klassiker lesen können?
Tetraphobie: Ein früherer Kurzfilm von Takashi Shimizu heißt 444444, außerdem…
Review by D Edward ★★½

The first thirty minutes are an abridged version of Ju-On: The Curse, which feels odd given this came out in the same year as the first movie and has about the same production value. It’s less of a Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 and more of a Friday the 13th Part 2. What you’re left with is about 40 minutes of new material. It has its creepy moments and a couple good scares, but the penultimate segment blows the whole thing into a nearly apocalyptic scenario. There not much to get the story to that point, so the fat that it happens in about a four-minute-long segment feels rushed and unnecessary. I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to…
Review by London ½

Series: Ju-on/The Grudge Ranked
The first THIRTY MINUTES of this film are just the last THIRTY MINUTES of the first. That is pretty insulting if the film was two hours, but Ju-on: The Curse 2 is 75 MINUTES LONG. Almost half of it is taken up by footage we have already seen. It insults the audience by expecting them to watch half of the first movie before any new content. The fact that I did makes me the biggest fool of them all.
All the new content afterwards is pretty awful. Shimizu constantly breaks rules that he establishes, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but he does it so haphazardly that it becomes more and more aggravating each…
Review by Steve P ★½

Hooptober 4.0 (2017) - Film #18
Wow, "more of the same" would be one heck of an understatement. I'd like to say this film starts off where the original Curse finishes off... but unfortunately it starts off way sooner than that. The first 35-40 minutes just being reused segments from the first film. I think that sounds like a lot for any film, but for a film 76 minutes long it's a staggering proportion of the runtime. Of the new material about half of it is worthwhile... so I'd say this is a twenty minute movie!
The penultimate vignette where Nobuyuki is fleeing multiple versions of Kayako is a triumph of tension and the highlight of the new material. The…
Review by ghostsarereal ★★★

Okay, the first thing to note about this film is that the first half an hour or so is identical to the last half an hour of Ju-on: The Curse. Like, it's just the same footage again.
The other thing to note is that that last half hour was kind of great, with the ghost-detecting sake and Takeo at his most terrifying, so if you leave long enough between watching the first half and this one, it's not entirely terrible to watch that again. (And if like me you end up watching a version of 2 that's far better quality than the version of 1, well, that helps too.)
The new stuff in this one feels quite derivative, as a…
Review by Wood ★★★ 1

If this was released as one movie with The Curse 1, and not some frankenstein monster with half the previous movie it could very well be a classic shot on video 5 star.
Review by pietrolindo ★★

4.1/10
33 minutes of this film is just literally repeating scenes from the first one
has some pretty good and creative scenes that are actually interesting
but history is pretty confusing and boring, really boring
Review by HotDonkeyBear ★★

So THIS must be what Alzheimer's feels like.
The first thirty minutes I was utterly confused because I thought I'd accidentally started watching the first Ju-on by mistake.
THEN I got confused when it finally became a sort-of-sequel.
It kept reminding me of an old Hammer House of Horror episode, or maybe even a Tales Of The Unexpected, but with a quarter of the budget.
I'm beginning to worry that I've exhausted Japan and Korea of decent Horror. Still... I'm going to stick out the Ju-on series to their conclusion. Maybe I'll surprise myself and find a good one.
Review by dedlezar ★★★½

I love how the scares all happen during the daytime in these films.
Review by Mason D ★½ 2

Ju-on: The Curse 2 is deeply disappointing. This had all of the potential of being a creepy, low budget and passably impressive v-cinema, J-horror scarefest like its predecessor, but it isn’t. The second half of this is pretty good, on par with the first film even, but this film’s entire first half is the last half of the first movie. Not a recap, not a recreation, literally the last half hour of the first Ju-on film is stapled onto the beginning of this one. What we’re left with is forty or so minutes of direct continuation of the first part that works well enough.
If this film was all new material on par with the final forty minutes, I’d say this would probably be a three star movie. Considering that Ju-On: The Curse 2 is ultimately just half of a three star film masquerading as a complete feature, though? Well, it gets half of a three star rating.
Review by George Zverblis ★

Definitely one of the laziest sequels I've ever seen. Not only is it not terribly interesting, it recycles a ton of footage from the first one. There were some creepy scenes but overall, this is pretty fucking bad.

Recent reviews

Review by Till Sanden

DVD
Review by Ana Kinukawa ★½

Unnecessary second part.
Review by Corey ★★★

Last thirty mins epic
Review by D Edward ★★½

The first thirty minutes are an abridged version of Ju-On: The Curse, which feels odd given this came out in the same year as the first movie and has about the same production value. It’s less of a Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 and more of a Friday the 13th Part 2. What you’re left with is about 40 minutes of new material. It has its creepy moments and a couple good scares, but the penultimate segment blows the whole thing into a nearly apocalyptic scenario. There not much to get the story to that point, so the fat that it happens in about a four-minute-long segment feels rushed and unnecessary. I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to…
Review by carp1066 ★★★

it's best 2 segments are reused parts of the first film, and the new ones added don't bring that much to the table in terms of story or horror. it was thoroughly enjoyable but just nowhere near as great as the original
Review by Risya Citra ★½

Melanjutkan film sebelumnya dengan judul yang sama, dimana setengah dari film adalah pengulangan film sebelumnya. Cukup membosankan, meskipun horornya lebih berasa.
Mending digabungin jadi satu film aja!
Review by Ghost _Java

really should’ve just been put together with the first curse to make a single 2 hour movie since, as everyone else points out, this has only 45 minutes of new material and 30 minutes of recap.
Review by DarkOne4 ★★★

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Review by Jamie Lawson ★★★

There's only about 40 minutes of original footage here, and it feels more like deleted scenes from the first one than an actual film in its own right, but hey, I'll take it....that same no-budget creepiness is still present and correct, and managed to legit scare me all over again. They really should have just combined these first two movies into one....it would still only come to 110 minutes, and what a creepy 110 minutes that would be.
Review by AlexanderPrynne ★★★

For such a short film, it is a shame that so much of its running time is old footage. It's certainly far from the best in the series but it still has its own unique and interesting moments.
Review by Lewis Skelly ★★★½

Other than the 30 minutes that's from Ju On 1 - the other stuff is equally scary and of similar quality. Seriously. These first two movies are genuinely terrifying. Don't really know why they shoved the last bit of the first movie into this one but if there's one thing I've learned from the Ju On franchise it's that they love to shove lore and backstory in your face whenever possible - and I guess this is an early example of it, but still more righteous and the lifeless ones to follow.
Review by carlman97 ★★

Tecnicamente mostra anche qualche bella carrellata che il primo si sognava, però riservare 30 minuti su 75 totali per rimostrarci il finale del primo è’ un insulto allo spettatore.