New Poster For The Grudge Remake Is Absolutely Horrifying

Ready for a serious case of the heebie-jeebies?

Sony Pictures has released the first official poster for its upcoming remake/reboot/sequel The Grudge, and we sincerely hope that you're not about to jump in the shower. The one-sheet references an iconic scene from the 2004 film that has literally never stopped giving us the creeps.

In case you're not familiar, that flick itself a remake of the 2002 Japanese film Ju-On: The Grudge starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karen Davis, an American exchange student in Japan who moves into a house populated by malevolent spirits. These are no run-of-the-mill spooks, however; they're an extra-virulent variety created when one dies under extraordinarily emotional circumstances, and as the flick's title implies, they don't go away... ever.

In the scene in question, Karen is enjoying a nice, hot shower, and is in the middle of washing her hair when she suddenly appears to grow an extra hand... from the back of her head. It's an incredibly unnerving jump scare, and the fact that the new flick's producers chose to invoke it for their movie's first poster tells us something about the specific vein of terror they're hoping to mine.

As the poster notes, Sam Raimi, who served as a producer on the 2004 film and the first of its two sequels, is back in that role for this go-round. He's got an interesting talent in the director's chair: Nicolas Pesce who turned in low-key, slow-burn, minor masterpieces with 2016's Eyes of My Mother and 2018's Piercing.

According to Pesce, his film will more than make good on this poster's promise to scare the absolute hell out of you. The director has explained that he views The Grudge as, quote, "an anthology series... [featuring] different characters, different stories, different locations, different ghosts," and while he is taking care to stay true to what came before, he promises that when it comes to the level of pure terror he's going for, audiences simply aren't ready. Keep watching the video to see more of how the new poster for the Grudge remake is absolutely horrifying!

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