Episode 170: Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), The Grudge (2004) and The Grudge 2 (2006)
The Hello, Sidney Podcast
Sidney
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sidney begins 2000s month by breaking down the Japanese film Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) and how it compares to its American remakes The Grudge (2004) and The Grudge 2 (2006).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? Hello, Sydney. What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast here, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror and it's me your girl sidney happy |
| 0:21.6 | march everybody we have made it happy 2000s month thank god thank god i deserve this you deserve this |
| 0:29.7 | we all deserve this after the absolute mess that last month ended up being like those last few |
| 0:36.3 | episodes god i don't even know how you guys were able to |
| 0:38.7 | sit through those if you did you are better than i and i love you guys for it because what the |
| 0:44.0 | fuck was that but now this month we have a great lineup if i do say so myself if you miss the lineup |
| 0:50.4 | last episode it is another 2000s month and i am so excited to do this. It's like a gift |
| 0:57.0 | to myself again after what I had to endure last month, all those movies I had to rewatch. So I made |
| 1:02.8 | sure that every movie I have to rewatch this month is a movie that I enjoy. So I'm very excited to be |
| 1:08.1 | doing this, and we're starting off really hot. Before I get into that, |
| 1:11.8 | let's see. What have I watched this week? I actually really haven't watched anything new. |
| 1:16.1 | I watched all old stuff. I finally watched Death Becomes Her. What a fucking treat. How much fun. |
| 1:22.4 | Oh my God. Absolutely loved it. The fucking, what a cast too. Absolutely incredible. Meryl, a god, Goldie, a god. |
| 1:31.0 | Incredible. Incredible. Oh my God. I also finally watched Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me. First ever |
| 1:37.1 | David Lynch movie I've ever watched that I understood and I've liked. Like, I really, really enjoyed |
| 1:43.1 | it. Laura Palmer, what an absolutely devastating |
| 1:46.5 | character. How upsetting. I was not expecting to cry and be sad, but I was. Yeah, I kept seeing |
| 1:52.8 | everywhere last week that it was Twin Peaks Day on February 24th, so I was like, fuck it. I've been |
| 1:56.8 | putting this movie off for so long. Let's do it. And I did it. And I'm so glad that I did. So I am no longer a certified David Lynch hater because I finally watched a movies of his that I liked. And I honestly didn't think it was possible. But here we are. I've turned over a new leaf. It was probably after watching a racerhead and realizing that like, it can't possibly get any worse than this like it can't get |
| 2:18.7 | worse than watching this so yeah maybe that helped i don't know but again i'm very excited about |
| 2:25.1 | this month and i'm very excited about today and we are kicking off the month hot with one of my |
| 2:29.9 | personal favorite 2000s movies which is the grudge And I watched the Grudge at a very young |
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