Poster: The Grudge remake gets under your hair

October 22nd 2019, 5:55pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Writer-director Nicolas Pesce's (THE EYES OF MY MOTHER, PIERCING) upcoming reimagining of THE GRUDGE sports a killer cast which includes Lin Shaye, John Cho, Demian Bichir, and Andrea Riseborough. And today we have the new film's poster to share with you guys.

Recently, the film showed off its first bits of footage at the NYCC. Our buddies over at Comicbook.com were there and reported on the footage, writing:

The first Footage is done much like IT: Chapter Two's first trailer, featuring a scene of Riseborough's detective investigating the home of Shaye's elderly lady character. The detective quickly discerns something is wrong, as Shaye is shown to be disheveled and panicked, eventually revealing blackened, severed fingers on one hand, and the maggot-ridden corpse of her husband seated in a chair.

A montage of footage plays that shows the familiar iconography of the series, with a shower scene and ghost hands featuring John Cho, and the familiar sight of the horrible long-haired ghost girl rising up from watery depths. There's also a lot of shots of real bloody injury and death being featured, hammering home that this an R-rated version of The Grudge that fans hoped for.

This new version just earned an R rating from the MPAA for "disturbing violence and bloody images, terror and some language" and takes place in America and – get this – happens at the same time as the 2004 Sarah Michelle Gellar flick.

A single mother and young detective (Andrea Riseborough) discovers that a suburban house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce from a screenplay he wrote himself based on a story by Jeff Buhler based on Ju-on: The Grudge by Takashi Shimizu, THE GRUDGE is produced by Sam Raimi along with Robert Tapert and Takashige Ichise. It stars Andrea Riseborough along with Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Jacki Weaver, Frankie Faison, and William Sadler. THE GRUDGE is set to hit theaters on January 3, 2020.