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Huh? Sam Raimi didn't even write or direct The Grudge. He only produced the film. and lets be real, it doesn't take much skill to remake a film like "Juon".
The fiery visions were explained in the end, but, you said you didn't finish the movie.All the fiery visions in the apartment were total overkill, although I must admit that I did like the Chinese Restaurant fire scene... in retrospect -- a scene I would have genuinely applauded had it not been for all of the other preceding vivid visions of fire which caused them all to blend together as if it was all part of one giant "fire fetish" party or something, so that by the time you realized that the vision experienced in the restaurant was related to a specific and separate event it had lost it's effectiveness.
and that is just dumb. :shakehead(Granted, I have yet to see "Crocoshit Ari," i.e. "One Missed Call," which, from all I've been hearing about it and judging from the trailers, is well worth missing, and "Punk'd"... I mean "Pulse" -- so who knows? maybe one or both of those remakes could possibly whip me up into even more of a frothing mouthed frenzy.)