The Ultimate The Grudge Quiz | Movies

Answer: 12

The first three people to die (chronologically speaking) were the family that now haunts the cursed house: little Toshio (1) and his mother Kayako (2) are killed by his father Takeo (3), who then kills himself. Peter (4), played by Bill Pullman, leaps to his death in the opening scene. Yoko (5) gets dragged up into the attic and killed. Emma (6) is killed off screen and found dead in her bed. Emma's son, Matthew (7), and his wife, Jennifer (8), are found dead in the attic shortly after moving into the house. Matthew's sister, Susan (9), is killed in her bed by Kayako. Alex (10) is killed off-screen, most likely by Yoko's ghost. Detective Nakagawa (11) gets drowned in the bathtub by Takeo's ghost. Finally, Karen's boyfriend, Doug (12), dies in the climactic scene when Kayako crawls down the stairs. We may also include Nagakawa's former partners, but the story never reveals exactly what happened to them.

Answer: Yoko

Yoko dies early in the movie, and is presumed dead and gone. Later, she is seen by Alex walking around bloody, broken, and with no lower jaw. The next thing we find out is that Alex is dead too. By movie's end, we know that Yoko's movements (all herky-jerky, snapping and crackling) were consistent with Kayako's, and thus that she was a ghost, and not just barely alive.

Answer: Kayako

She finds Toshio huddled in the corner, along with a black cat (although Toshio was the one meowing) and an unmarked book, which we later find out is Kayako's journal. Had she found Kayako herself so early, she'd have been dead and there wouldn't have been a movie.

Answer: Jennifer

Even though the first person we see killed in the movie is Yoko, as the story goes on, we learn that Jennifer and (moments later) her husband, Matthew, were the first victims of the grudge, leaving his mother Emma all alone in the house, which is where Yoko the caretaker comes in.

The whole story is told in non-linear time like this. Also, I don't consider Peter a victim of the curse because it could easily be argued that he just committed suicide after finding Kayako dead.

Answer: a bloody lower jaw

The bloody jaw, of course, turns out to belong to Yoko, whom we later see ambling along in her former office at night covered in gore, with no lower jaw.

Answer: Kayako was in every picture.

In every picture, Kayako can be seen off in the background, usually looking at Peter. We eventually discover that she was deeply in love with him, and was probably stalking him.

Answer: He went crazy when he found his wife was in love with another man

Kayako was in love with Peter, who was a professor of hers in the recent past. She had a book, like a journal, in which she professed her love over and over, with little hearts, drawings, and such. Takeo found the book and snapped. He killed Kayako, drowned Toshio in the bathtub, and hung himself, and so began the curse.

Answer: 3 years

Upon discovering the bodies of Jennifer and Matthew, one of the detectives remarks that they were the first people to live in that house since a certain incident which occurred there three years prior, and we all know what that incident was, don't we? Player rj211 remarked that Nagakawa's partners, who worked the original murder/suicide case(and by then had disappeared) may be considered victims of the curse as well, but we really can't be entirely sure what happened to them.

Answer: She didn't.

Obviously, the last scene in the movie shows us that the curse is still alive. If you haven't seen it, then allow me to spoil it by saying that although Karen did set fire to the house and survive, it was mentioned by a detective that they had managed to save the house. Soon after, Karen found Kayako breathing (so to speak) down her neck as she was about to identify Doug's body... and roll credits.

Answer: False

This is less about people who survived than about people whom we didn't see die. Karen may or may not be dead, which is hard to tell from the ending. However, even if she didn't survive, apparently someone else did. The real-estate agent who sold the house to Susan and Matthew had come across some strange events and apparently lived.

He entered the bathroom, found the tub full of water, and upon reaching down to pull the drain plug, he was grabbed by someone below the surface (Toshio). He got his arm free and found a lock of black hair in his hand. Nagakawa's partner (the one who found Yoko's jaw) probably also survived, but he didn't really encounter the curse itself.