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The Chicago apartment building is a side setting in The Grudge 2 and a main setting in The Grudge 3. Located an in Chicago, Illinois ,USA, the apartment block is reached by a mysterious Japanese grudge curse through Allison Fleming (a young dweller returning from Tokyo).

The curse ends up affecting and claiming the lives of its inhabitants, as the place becomes home for the spiteful ghosts of Kayako Saeki and her son Toshio.

History[]

The Grudge 2[]

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Trish and Bill arrive.

Trish joined her husband Bill's family and was welcomed by his older daughter Lacey at the building. Some time later, Allison returned from Tokyo, Japan attempting to escape from the ghosts that pursued her after she stepped inside the Saeki house. Through her, the curse reached her neighbors: initially the Kimble family and a girl named Sally. The curse would claim all their lives, before taking Allison's parents and herself. With all of them gone, the place remained cursed to a considerably lesser but still deadly extent, affecting anyone who entered there.

The Grudge 3[]

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As it decayed, the block's syndicate Max Morrison attempted to convince people who moved out after the murders into staying, in vain. Max's younger sister Rose told their middle sister Lisa about a boy who enjoyed playing with her toys. Brenda was taken by the curse in her new home, after she and her mother Renee moved out of the building. Painter Gretchen was also mercilessly murdered by Kayako's ghost, her corpse later discovered by Max. Doctor Francine Sullivan entered her deceased patient's apartment to investigate about his accounts on a mysterious ghostly woman he blamed for his family's deaths. Doctor Sullivan got cursed and was killed by Kayako's ghost at the mental hospital she worked. Lisa's boyfriend Andy followed a Toshio's running ghost to an upper apartment and was suffocated to death.

Kayako's sister Naoko moved to the building, attempting to banish the ghosts and end the grudge curse, through a ritual. The ceremony was briefly interrupted by a possessed Max, who murdered Naoko while Kayako's ghost pursued Lisa and Rose. Rose then drank Kayako's blood, causing her spirit to vanish and Max to return to normal. However, it was too late as Naoko's rancorous spirit returned to take Max at the hall, while Kayako's ghost seemed to be trapped inside Rose (or she manifested on the girl remarking that her grudge would not have an end).

Notes[]

  • Producers found a location in Yokohama, Japan, to serve as the exterior of the Chicago apartment building, and Saito and his team created the interior sets on Stage 9 at Toho Studios. Production designer Iwao Saito and his team created the interior sets on Stage 9 at Toho Studios.[1]
  • Jason Cutler interviewed Matthew Knight (Jake) in the building sets where Knight indicated a supernatural activity in the hall.
  • The Grudge 2 implies that Karen Davis's fire worsened the curse in some level, being such the reason the building was reached (even though Kayako's mother declines this). In the Ju-on films, the curse spreads more like a disease, regardless of the place where it is rooted, which is not seen in The Grudge franchise (before the fire).
  • The first place (the second chronologically) in the West to have a grudge curse gathered inside, along with 44 Reyburn Drive. The curse is created in both places by possession.
  • At night, the building is covered by the shadows of the trees right in front - appearing engulfed in Kayako's hair.

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