History Film / TheGrudge

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} It never forgives. It never forgets. Once you see it, you can never forget]].]]

* PsychologicalHorror

* DeathBySex: Averted in the third movie, and played with in the second movie - [[spoiler:Miyuki dies in the love hotel she checks into with her boyfriend]].

[[caption-width-right:350:It never forgives. It never forgets. Once you see it, you can never forget.]]

* ShesGotLegs: Vanessa rolls up her school uniform skirt extremely high to show off her gorgeous legs and encourages Allison to do the same to be popular.

* KillEmAll: With the exception of [[spoiler:Lisa and Rose]] ([[AmbiguousSituation and who knows how long that will last]]), every main character in the trilogy ends up dead.

* IllGirl: Rose, who suffers from severe breathing problems and has to rely on an oxygen generator when she over-exerts herself.

* AndIMustScream: The fate of every single person who is taken by the curse - they become puppets of the curse, never finding peace, and forced to claim more victims. It becomes a lot worse when the curse is unleashed on the planet and becomes TheVirus, which causes serious ParanoiaFuel and UnfortunateImplications of InferredHolocaust since history is doomed to repeat itself and soon all human beings will become an undead vengeful ''onryo'' army hunting down and killing everyone on the planet until all humans are six feet under and trapped in a terrifying and horrible FateWorseThanDeath.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* CurseRelay: The movie series feature a curse caught by going into the house where it originated from. After which its only a matter of time before it comes for it's victim. In some cases, some of it's victims don't have to be by the house, just interacting with someone who has gone in it. A few have fallen prey due to trying to investigate what happened to previous victims.

* ButtMonkey: Susan in the first film. As the hauntings go, she's treated pretty unfairly.

* InfantImmortality: Averted with Toshio, and [[spoiler:Jake]]. Partially averted when [[spoiler:Kayako possesses Rose]] at the end of ''The Grudge 3''.

** Another one from the second film: as Karen runs through the hospital she freezes in terror as a group of employees just stare at her. While many viewers write this off as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, if you look close and freeze in as the camera moves over their faces you can see the blurry figure of Kayako staring at her in he crowd.

* MatchlightDangerRevelation: [[GenreBlindness Obviously Yoko didn't realise that turning on a lighter in the middle of a dark attic = bad idea.]]

* OhCrap: Aubrey gets a look of horrified realisation on her face when [[spoiler:she encounters Takeo]].

* TwistedAnkle: In the second movie, [[spoiler:Aubrey breaks her ankle while fleeing from Takeo, which results in her having to crawl down the stairs to try (and fail) to escape]]. This implies that the same thing (or at least something very similar) happened to Kayako. A similar occurance happens in the third movie, when [[spoiler:Max breaks Naoko's knee]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:The poster for the first film in the series.]]

Now has a [[Characters/TheGrudge Character Page]], which NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: Towards the end of ''The Grudge 2'', Aubrey ''finally'' tells her mother how she really feels. [[spoiler:Sadly, it's the last time they ever speak.]]

* [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident Make It Look Like Suicide]]: The authorities believe that Takeo killed himself; the Director's Cut of the first film reveals that his death was, in fact, Kayako's doing.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: Aubrey is grief-stricken over Karen's death, and she practically namechecks this trope when she returns to the house [[spoiler:for the final time (while she's still alive, anyway)]].

* TheBeautifulElite: Vanessa and Miyuki are the most popular and beautiful schoolgirls at the International School.

* ProudBeauty: Vanessa wears her school uniform provocatively to flaunt her beauty.

** Vanessa is incredibly beautiful and a major source of fan service as she likes to roll her uniform skirt very high to show off her legs and flaunts her beauty in the locker room to her friends in her underwear. However, [[spoiler:she pees herself in her underwear in the locker room soon after, has her facial beauty gradually deprived by the curse (in a deleted scene), is trapped in the phone booth when Toshio was able to grab her exposed legs that she loved to flaunt because her skirt was rolled so high, and becomes an ugly, horrifying onryo that wears the same school uniform and short skirt that Vanessa flaunted her beauty in before she had lost her beauty and was still gorgeous.

* FemmeFatalons: To an extent. [[spoiler:Miyuki has extremely long, blue-painted fingernails, and this carries over into her ghost form.]]