Sarah Michelle Gellar

iFilm has brought online the first 8 minutes of writer/director Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge, which Lions Gate Films and Vitagraph Films are releasing in limited theaters on July 23.

In the horror film, a volunteer home care worker enters the home of a bed-ridden patient and discovers a strange ghostly presence lurking behind a door sealed with duct tape. Her discovery unleashes a horrible evil which baffles police investigators, who find that a whole series of people have gone missing from this particular house. Further investigation leads to Izutni Toyama, a former detective who handled the case of a man who murdered his wife in the house, but whose son was never found. But when the angry "Ju-On" spirit of vengeance that has infected the house reaches beyond its boundaries to kill Toyama and his daughter, Rika realizes that the horror is spreading. Worse, unless something is done about it, she feels she may become the angry spirit’s next victim.

You can check out the clip here! Also, as you may know, the film is being remade with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the lead and Shimizu again directing. You can watch a video interview with Gellar talking about The Grudge, opening October 29, here as well.