If you are a regular surfer of the movie news sites online then you probably already heard that the first footage from The Grudge 2 debuted at Comic-Con on Sunday morning and just prior to that I had a chance to sit down with two of the stars in the film, two lovely stars for that matter, in Amber Tamblyn and Arielle Kebbel.

Both ladies were very giddy and happy to talk about just about anything including a little jab in the direction of Paris Hilton and her performance in House of Wax. While it's not exactly as funny in writing as it was being there I think you will get the drift.

Check out the interview below.

Question: Amber can you talk about moving into the horror genre after your recent film choices?

Amber Tamblyn: I had a small part in The Ring and I really enjoyed that experience and I had never really never been able to carry a horror film before and my dad did The Haunting in the '50s and he said it was one of the most amazing experiences he ever had so when I read the script I was really excited about it and wanted to do a horror film.

Question: Arielle can you tell us what you do in the film?

Arielle Kebbel: I play Allison Fleming, she's not very attractive, she's not very confident...

Amber Tamblyn: Clearly...

Arielle Kebbel: [laughing] She's kind of the wallflower of the group, she's studying over at the international high school and she's the kind of girl you see in the background of all the pictures that wants to be part of everything but never really is. So one day the cool girls in school, played by Teresa Palmer and Misako, who's a Japanese pop star take me to the "grudge" house and I think it is part of an initiation to finally become part of their group when in fact it's part of their plot to humiliate me one more time and watch me get scared in this house and of course nobody plans on the "grudge" curse coming alive and then everyone gets what they deserve.

Question: Did you reference the Ju On films at all?

Arielle Kebbel: Yes, we sat and watched the Ju On series and I think there are moments in our movie that are scarier and more intense and I think there are moments in the original Ju On that are scarier.

I think The Grudge 1 and 2 are actually a better representation of Ju On 1, it's almost like they split Ju On 1 into two parts and made Grudge 1 and 2 so I am interested to see [how people respond].

Amber Tamblyn: A lot of people have been asking how this film is going to mirror the sequel to Ju On and it really barely does. I think maybe one plot does, but everything else is changed.

Arielle Kebbel: It's more like Ju On 1.

Question: What was it like working with Takashi Shimizu?

Amber Tamblyn: Sometimes things do get lost in translation where you're trying to explain something to the director about the way you feel about a certain thing...

One of the things with Shimizu was about looks, he really wanted [makes a startled sound], the fright scare looks so I had to talk to him about why I didn't think that was such a good idea, and then it becomes charades.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah, because words don't work after a while and you try and think how can I explain this to you if you don't understand what I am saying?

Question: Did either one of you have scenes with Sarah Michelle Gellar?

Amber Tamblyn: I had scenes with Sarah, yeah. I play Sarah's younger sister, Aubrey, who is sort of the underdog in the family in the sense that Sarah's character, Karen, is really loved by her mother, she's very close to our mother and I am not that close to our mother. So Karen has gone through what happened at the end of the first Grudge then my mother sends me off to see what happened to her. So it is sort of about reevaluating my relationship with here and seeing where that stands and where that leads us.

Question: Did you two work a lot together?

Amber Tamblyn: Arielle and I didn't get to work a lot together because there are so many different platforms for storylines in this film...

Arielle Kebbel: There's three solid different storylines.

Amber Tamblyn: Yeah, they become sort of interwoven, but Edison [Chen] and I worked mostly together.

Question: Did Jennifer Beals' character work into your storylines?

Arielle Kebbel: Well you're just going to have to watch and find out... [laughing] No, I think that part of the fun of this film is that it sticks with Shimizu's style with all of his Ju On and Grudge films, which is to say that it is told in non-sequential order, a lot of it is flashes and you are trying to figure out who is dead, who is alive, what is the time sequence of it all and how is it all related.

The fun thing about this film is that, because it's a sequel, you have all those things, but they're doubled and in this case tripled because there really are three different, solid storylines and it takes until the last seconds of the film to try and figure out how Jennifer's storyline is linking to Amber's storyline, which is linking to my storyline.

Amber Tamblyn: ...and she does this incredible flash dance... It's crazy, with Kayako (Takako Fuji) they just like bust out... they had a chair there, it was crazy.

Question: Can you describe Shimizu's style of directing?

Arielle Kebbel: We're making a Japanese story, but we're making it for an American audience. So what we were supposed to bring to the table was how we can tell [Shimizu's] story and have it appeal to our viewers. So a lot of what he did was body positioning...

Amber Tamblyn: Timing is a huge deal with him. He doesn't like to use CGI, in the first Grudge there was a scene with Sarah when Kayako sticks her hands underneath her hair in the shower and all of my friends when we saw that film thought it was CGI but it wasn't. They had the actress put her hands through Sarah's hair and by the time the camera had panned around she had dropped down so you couldn't see her and he loves to do stuff like that. Everything for him is about making it as scary as possible and making it real, which I think is a major absent part of horror films as of lately. Everything is so overexposed and overdialated that you get to a point where you are like, "All right, well I don't really have much to leave to the imagination."

It's also fun to know when it's real or when you feel that tricks are actually real, like it is happening in the actual presence of the moment of the scene. Then you can feel like there wasn't a completely separate additive in a computer afterwards.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah, going back to timing, what he doesn't like is a whole lot of the screaming and the panic, he likes the frozen terror. He's really big on big eyes and frozen terror and seeing how your body reacts.

Question: What do you see as the difference between Japanese and American films in the horror genre?

Amber Tamblyn: There's a major definitive difference between having a film that's about ghosts that plays out scenarios and real situations that we as human beings go through and we understand things like domestic violence which is what The Grudge is basically about, the haunting of a woman who went through a horrible pain and all these different things. So when you have that you are taking a supernatural idea that is based on something real whereas in our culture you have Paris Hilton running into a stake. Is that what it was?

Arielle Kebbel: Everyone scream with me... [let's out a tiny whimper mocking Hilton in House of Wax]

Amber Tamblyn: Somebody told me that she got stabbed with a stake... My point being, that I think Japanese films in general have so much to do with the spiritual world, which is something that we as Americans don't honor all the time in film and especially in the genre of horror it's just sort of seen as the come and go fun flick.

There's so much, there's Kurosawa, Miyazaki and all of the Japanese directors, even with animation, so much of their underlying themes and so much about what their films are about are spirituality and human suffrage, a lot of it is about that and overcoming that.

That is what is so beautiful and relatable about it.

Question: Amber has anyone talked to you about doing the next Traveling Pants movie?

Amber Tamblyn: There has been a little bit of talk about it, but I don't think to a very large degree.

The Grudge 2 is set to release on October 13, for more on the film click here.