Revealing mistake: When the detectives were listening to the message on the answering machine, we heard it say the date was Thursday and states a time the message was left. When the camera shows the answering machine, you can see the display blinking between 1 (the current message) and CL (which indicates the time and date have not yet been set).
The Grudge (2004)
Plot summary
Directed by: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Bill Pullman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Clea DuVall, Jason Behr, William Mapother
A Japanese woman called Yoko is a volunteer worker for the elderly. She visits one of her newest people, an old American woman with a laziness disorder, and as she goes upstairs to clean she sees something shut a door, yet she's alone with the American woman.
She goes into the room to look, sees nothing, then hears a clicking / groaning from above her, but that's the attic. She goes up to investigate and sees nothing. She turns around to leave when the thing pounces on her. We see kicking legs, hear screaming, then legs get dragged up.
Next day when Yoko hasn't turned up for work, Karen, an American who moved to Tokyo with her boyfriend, is sent in as a replacement. She isn't attacked but lets loose a little boy (Toshio), from a cupboard.
What follows is a whirlwind of deaths of people who go into the house, including the "bed scene." A lady is followed home (the two spirits can leave the house) and this woman hides under the bed-clothes like a five-year-old, and rather shockingly, the boy spirit is under her bed cover, and drags her to her doom.
The chief of police, investigating Yoko's disappearance, tells Karen how he was on a murder case three years ago, murder of Toshio and the spirit woman. They were murdered, and a curse was born. As long as the house stood, death had stained it, it bore a grudge on all who entered, they were doomed to die.
The police chief later goes to the house to burn it down, but Toshio drowns him, leaving two cans of gasoline. Karen's boyfriend goes to the house to look for Karen. Karen goes there to look for him, and as she tries to burn down the house, see ending...
More mistakes in The Grudge
Detective Nakagawa: Three years ago, three of my colleagues were investigating what happened in that house. Two died mysteriously. The third was never found.
Trivia: The Saeki family, the ghost family that haunts and terrorizes everyone who enter their home, are no strangers to the Grudge franchise. They played the same characters in the movie Ju-On, the Japanese version of The Grudge.
Question: How exactly does the father kill the wife? I noticed when she comes down the stairs she comes out of a bloody bag. So how is she killed?
Answer: Another website states that after pushing her down, Kayako sprained her ankle and crawled down the stairs, only to realise Takeo was slowly following her from behind watching her suffer. He then snapped her neck, but she was still alive and could only make the croaking noise. It is also implied that he stabbed her multiple times afterwards, which could explain the bloody corpse.
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Answer: Well, in the Japanese original (Ju-On: The Grudge), it shows that Takeo, the father, killed his wife by shoving a knife down her throat or something similar to that. When he was killing her, she tried to scream, except her scream came out all messed up (because the knife hit the vocal chords), which explains the horrible croaking noise. There's no doubt about it that it's the way she was killed in this version.