The Grudge Director Says Future Films Could Visit Other Eras

The latest film in The Grudge series unleashes on Friday, and its director says sequels could go to different locations and even eras. Nicolas Peace, who directed the upcoming film, spoke with Bloody Disgusting about the film and was asked whether he had ideas for future films in the franchise.

“I do, but they sorta involve spoilers,” Pesce said on the Boo Crew Podcast. “I think the overarching thing would be to take it to more places than just Japan and America, and potentially even leave the modern era.”

Peace continued, “This is something to me…the Grudge is not a thing that happened once, it’s been happening forever. It’s just a matter of revealing when and where that happened. I think that there’d be something cool in going way far back and doing something that’s less contemporary and seeing what shape this sort of thing has taken the form of in other forms and other places.”

The new film is set in America at the same time as the 2004 Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring film and stars Andrea Riseborough, Lin Shaye, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, and Jacki Weaver. The synopsis reads:

A single mother and young detective, Muldoon (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.