While The Grudge has never been a rated “R” kind of franchise, the Nicolas Pesce-directed “sidequel” (it takes place during the events of the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring sequel) was envisioned as a harder, more brutal take on the curse. With that, the film has received its much-desired and long-promised “R” rating for, “disturbing violence and bloody images, terror and some language.”

The curse of The Grudge returns in January when Screen Gems infects audiences with Sam Raimi‘s latest production that features horror veteran Lin Shaye (Insidious) with Demian Bichir (The Nun).

While there’s still no official synopsis, EW revealed that Andrea Riseborough (Mandy) plays a cop in a new town who comes across a seemingly-unexplainable case that leads her to a house that, in Pesce’s words, “has been grudged.”

“We follow her, as well as two other storylines, that are all interacting with this grudged house in small town America,” Pesce told the site. “Like the old films, it’s a tapestry of three different stories that interweave and all take place at slightly different times, centered around this one house that’s at the center of this case that this cop is working on.”

The Grudge is a new take on the 2004 pic (itself based on the 2002 Japanese original Ju-on), which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as a nurse in Tokyo who is afflicted by a curse that created uncontrollable homicidal rage.

Also starring Andrea Riseborough (Mandy), John Cho (“The Exorcist”), Betty Gilpin (“Glow”), Jacki Weaver and Frankie Faison, the R-rated remake will infect theaters on January 3, 2020.