Wish me luck . . .

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I believe that a good horror movie has characters we care about, all with some redeeming features,r ather than ones that clearly deserve to die. This is especially true when you have a small cast trapped in a remote location. If I'm going to spend the rest of the film boarded up in an abandoned chainsaw factory with four or five people, they damn well better be loveable and sympathetic.

[RobtheBarbarian]

I believe that a good horror movie has characters we care about, all with some redeeming features,r ather than ones that clearly deserve to die. This is especially true when you have a small cast trapped in a remote location. If I'm going to spend the rest of the film boarded up in an abandoned chainsaw factory with four or five people, they damn well better be loveable and sympathetic.

I rooted for the latino guy in Saw 2 for that reason. He was the only guy in the entire goddamn building who actually understood where he was and what was going on, and reacted accordingly. Everyone else's thought process seemed to be "Alright, there's a madman toying with our lives and any of us could die at any moment, so clearly the first thing on our agenda is to make sure everyone gets along with each other."

[Principal_Skin-trade]

"The Grudge" just as Mike and Kevin said is not horror, it's not even suspense.. it fits in with the Anxiety genre. Meaning you will be anxious to never watch the movie ever again not because it was scary but because of how dumb and mindlessly stupid it is.