First THE GRUDGE Trailer Witness the first THE GRUDGE trailer! The film, directed by Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of My Mother), stars Demián Bechir, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, John Cho, Jacki Weaver, and William Sadler. THE GRUDGE will be released in theaters on January 3, 2020. After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective tries to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the 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.