Reel To Real: Should A Realtor Tell Likely Buyers Their Dream House Is Haunted?
The Reel Story: A few million of you already got good and scared this past weekend with former vampire slayer Sarah Michelle Gellar in “The Grudge.” This English-language retelling of the Japanese film “Ju-on” — similar in pacing and tone to 2002’s breakout remake “The Ring” — has Gellar’s student nurse caring for a family’s elderly mother in a poltergeist-infested house. As the creep factor intensifies, the audience learns that the realtor who sold the house to Gellar’s employers had a hair-raising encounter of his own the day he showed the property. While the prospective buyers wandered the home, the realtor noticed that the bathtub was full of sludgy, black and obviously evil water. As he reached in to unstop the drain, a gray hand came out and tried to pull him under. He struggled and fell to the floor, clutching a fistful of long black hair snatched from the haunted tub. When the family decided to buy the home, the agent said nothing about his frightening encounter. Which of cours
