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 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 takes place in America and – get this – happens at the same time as the 2004 Sarah Michelle Gellar flick.
The new plot finds Andrea Riseborough (MANDY) as a cop in a new town who comes across a seemingly-unexplainable case that leads her to a house that has been grudged.
THE GRUDGE is set to hit theaters on January 3, 2020.