10 Overhyped Horror Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

English-language remakes generally get a bad rap, and rightly so, given more often than not they are designed solely to bleed profit from a successful foreign-language film that English-speaking, primarily North American audiences are too lackadaisical to read the subtitles on. But the gambit almost always pays off, and audiences gobble them up.

Such is the case for Takashi Shimizu's US remake of his own 2002 film Ju-On: The Grudge, rehashed before the original had cooled and with none other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, in the lead role. American nurse Karen Davis (Gellar) moves to Tokyo, where she encounters a supernatural curse - the titular Grudge - that passes from victim to victim leaving a series of mysterious, horrifying deaths in its wake.

Despite its derivative nature, the film really took off, gaining the word-of-mouth notoriety necessary to take nearly 20 times its budget at the box office, and many more millions in home media. But it's not worth your while.

There are a handful of creepy moments, but the scenes are disjointed, the plot unnecessarily convoluted and it mostly scans as a poor retelling of Ring (1998). If you want the highlights, Scary Movie 4 (2006) manages to hit all the key moments in a fraction of the time.