Is The Grudge actually good?

The Grudge sits in the 28.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 28.7% of them.

How does The Grudge compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Grudge lands in the 31.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Grudge's score based on?

528 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Grudge's score.

2004

global pct

28.7

Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s

The Grudge

Name: The Grudge
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2004

Scored from 528 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

28.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

31.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

9.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

528 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An American exchange student in Tokyo takes over as a caregiver for a catatonic elderly woman in a quiet suburban house, only to discover the home is haunted by a vengeful curse born from a violent death within its walls. As she investigates, she learns that anyone who enters the house becomes marked by the same relentless supernatural force, which spreads through everyone it touches.

The Grudge (2004) is a film IMDb files under the horror, mystery and thriller genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 398 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 528 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 549 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.