Sony Pictures ramped up promoting The Grudge leading into this past weekend’s New York Comic Con where they revealed the first footage and a poster, which resurrects the long black hair motif popularized in J-Horror throughout the early 2000s.
The curse of The Grudge returns in January when Screen Gems infects audiences with Sam Raimi‘s latest production that’s directed by Nicolas Pesce.
The film features horror veteran Lin Shaye (Insidious) with Demian Bichir (The Nun).
EW revealed that Andrea Riseborough (Mandy) plays a cop in a new town who comes across a seemingly-unexplainable case that leads her to a house that, in Pesce’s words, “has been grudged.”
“We follow her, as well as two other storylines, that are all interacting with this grudged house in small town America,” Pesce told the site. “Like the old films, it’s a tapestry of three different stories that interweave and all take place at slightly different times, centered around this one house that’s at the center of this case that this cop is working on.”
Based on a script by Midnight Meat Train and Pet Sematary scribe Jeff Buhler, it’s a new take on the 2004 pic (itself based on the 2002 Japanese original Ju-on), which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a nurse in Tokyo who is afflicted by a curse that created uncontrollable homicidal rage.
Also starring Andrea Riseborough (Mandy), John Cho (“The Exorcist”), Betty Gilpin (“Glow”), Jacki Weaver and Frankie Faison, the R-rated remake will infect theaters on January 3, 2020.
