It is the fourth installment in the American The Grudge film series and stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, and Jacki Weaver.

In July 2017, filmmaker Nicolas Pesce was hired for rewrites based on Buhler's script and to direct the film.

In 2004, live-in nurse Fiona Landers leaves the residence of the Williams family in Tokyo,[b] appearing disturbed.

Fiona arrives at her home in a small town in Pennsylvania, reuniting with her husband Sam and young daughter Melinda.

Kayako's curse, however, possesses Fiona, causing her to bludgeon Sam to death and drown Melinda before killing herself by stabbing herself in the throat.

Shortly after the Landers are murdered, but before anyone discovers their deaths, real estate agents Peter and Nina Spencer learn that their unborn child will most likely be born with the rare genetic disorder ALD.

Peter goes to look into selling 44 Reyburn Drive and stumbles across Melinda's ghost, presuming her to be a lost girl who is bleeding profusely from her nose.

The possessed Peter returns to his home, where he kills Nina and their unborn child and is eventually found dead in the bathtub.

Upon exiting, Wilson slowly starts to lose his mind and eventually becomes hysterical when he spots Fiona's ghost outside Goodman's car.

Goodman becomes uncomfortable when they learn that Lorna has been visiting 44 Reyburn Drive, revealing his suspicion that the house is cursed.

After she is attacked by the Landers' ghosts again, Muldoon goes to the house and douses it in gasoline as she sees visions of how Fiona murdered her family.

The curse creates an apparition resembling Burke, but Muldoon realizes it isn't really him after he fails to repeat a phrase the two of them use regularly.

"[7] In March 2014, it was announced that Jeff Buhler was hired to write the script, and the film would be produced by Ghost House Pictures and Good Universe.

[15] John Cho and Shaye were added to the cast in March 2018,[16] and in April 2018, Jacki Weaver, Betty Gilpin, William Sadler, and Frankie Faison also signed on.

[17] Takako Fuji, who previously played Kayako Saeki in the franchise, voiced Faith Matheson and Fiona Landers in the Japanese dub of the film.

The website's consensus reads: "Dull and derivative, the rebooted Grudge wastes a talented cast and filmmaker on watered-down scares that may leave viewers nursing grievances of their own.

[2] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said the film was all premise and no development, adding, "I saw this movie in the middle of the day, having had a great night's sleep, and I had to slap myself awake a few times.

"[35] Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying that it is "often as nasty as you want it to be, its cheesy jump-scares and generic packaging be damned.