John Cho Gets the Crap Scared Out of Him in Creepy First Trailer for THE GRUDGE

The first trailer for director Nicolas Pesce and producer Sam Raimi’s horror-thriller The Grudge has been released. While we’ve seen several Grudge films made over the years, this one looks like it’ll be a creepy addition to the franchise, and it’s sure to bring some scares to audiences. It actually looks better than I thought it’d be.

The story for this film is set in the United States, and it follows a detective (Andrea Riseborough) who investigates a serious of suspicious deaths all stemming from one house. The movie also stars John Cho, who is one of the characters who will be haunted and terrorized in the story.

The movie also stars Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye and Demian Bichir. The Grudge hits theaters on January 3rd. Check out the trailer!

"I think something followed me home." Get your exclusive first look at the trailer for The Grudge, directed by Nicolas Pesce and produced by Sam Raimi. Set in the United States, the movie follows a detective (Andrea Riseborough) who investigates a serious of suspicious deaths all stemming from one house.

When previously talking about the film, the director said:

“The beauty of The Grudge franchise, both the American and Japanese iterations, is it’s an anthology series. Every movie is a different story of different characters having different interactions with this curse. In today’s age where we’re remaking everything, I thought it would be fun to dive into The Grudge universe where we don’t have to remake anything, but rather a new chapter in this canon.”

Pesce also talked about what he finds most compelling about the concept of the grudge curse that all the stories have been set around:

“I think the most compelling thing about the grudge is that it’s inescapable. All you need to do is walk into a house that feels unassuming, and you’re screwed. It’s not your traditional haunted house movie where you pull up to a creepy, Gothic-looking house and go, ‘oh god that’s haunted.’ A motif of all the films, especially this one, is that behind the most normal kind of house, inside the most normal-seeming life, there can be something horrifying — whether it’s real and grounded, or something otherworldly and terrifying, it can happen anywhere, behind any door, to anyone. It’s unique to this story and philosophically terrifying.”

The movie also takes place at the same time as the 2004 film directed by Takashi Shimizu that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played an exchange student living in Japan. In the new film, 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.’” He goes on to explain:

“We follow her, as well as two other storylines, that are all interacting with this grudged house in small town America. 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.”

Does this look like a horror film that you’d want to check out!?