In the third installment of “The Grudge” series, the curse continues and finds its way to America.

Max (Gil McKinney) and Lisa (Johanna E. Braddy), a brother-and-sister duo who care for their sick younger sister, Rose (Jadie Hobson), find themselves in the middle of a “grudge” that afflicts the tenants in their building.

The curse stalks both the residents and Max and Lisa, leading to a series of strange deaths.

Finally the curse threatens to kill Max, Lisa and Rose. The arrival of Naoko (Emi Ikehata) serves as a warning to Lisa.

Naoko offers a solution to stop the curse but Lisa refuses to help her and by the time she realizes she should have stopped the curse when she had a chance, it is too late. 

The movie culminates in a bloody and slightly predictable ending.

“The Grudge 3” concludes with a predictable cliffhanger that unfortunately leaves the door open for yet another Grudge movie.

A select few scenes of the film have a jump-out-of-your-seat quality but otherwise it is predictable and offers nothing new to viewers who are familiar with the previous two Grudge films.

Possibly as disappointing as the film itself are the special features offered by the DVD.

The three deleted scenes available to view are boring and do not offer any added depth to the film.

Furthermore, the feature detailing the film crew’s selection of the locations in which the movie was filmed is dull.

While it evokes a slight interest, it is not nearly enough to consider buying the DVD or even watching this feature again.

The feature, entitled The Curse Continues, is similarly disappointing, as it details the continuation of the Grudge series and how the director went about connecting this film to the previous two Grudge movies.

The only highlight is the background given about the actress who plays the ‘undead’ Kayako.

The strange and unnerving body movements which have become so characteristic of the Grudge movies and Kayako’s ghost, are not digitally enhanced, but are in fact the work of the actress herself, who is able to contort her body in these strange and creepy ways.

Besides this one interesting portion, the special features of the Grudge 3 offer very little and the film itself even less to audiences.

Not only is this movie not worth buying it hardly seems worth spending the money to rent.

You should definitely save your money for something else. Anything else, really.