Alex is a supporting character from The Grudge, portrayed by Ted Raimi. Alex is an employer at a care-working center in Tokyo and the one who sends Karen to the Williams house, after Yoko, the previous care-worker, goes missing.
Alex was an eventual victim of the curse, killed by Yoko’s Onryō.
History[]
Alex had requested that Yoko cover for Fiona Landers, the previous caretaker for the Williams family, after she abruptly left for reasons she refused to explain. After Yoko disappeared, Alex ordered Karen to replace her and take care of Emma, a dementia-ridden elderly woman.
Later, Karen called him telling that she had found a boy in that house, trapped inside the closet. Alex went there and found Karen paralyzed and horrified, and Emma's dead body. He called the police and was interrogated by Detective Nakagawa about the Williams family, and Alex told them that the caretaker originally hired to take care of Emma, Yoko, was missing.
Cursed, Alex was being haunted by Toshio Saeki in his office, and later haunted and killed by a jaw-less, horrifying apparition of Yoko at the care-working center. When Karen's grieving sister Aubrey visited her house, she found a picture of Alex celebrating his birthday alongside Karen, Yoko and Doug.
Aftermath[]
Karen became aware of Alex and Yoko’s deaths when she tried calling him but with no response, and was left a voicemail informing her of the discovery of their corpses.
Trivia[]
Ted Raimi with the "Yoko" prop used in the film.
- Alex is adapted from the character of Hirohashi from Ju-on: The Grudge. Hirohashi sends Rika to the Tokunaga house to look after Sachie. Their fates, however, differ from each other as Hirohashi is later found dead.
- He also takes on a few characteristics of Noriko Murakami, as both characters were killed by a jawless ghost.
- Ted Raimi is the brother of The Grudge producer Sam Raimi.
- Alex is one character whose fate is not seen on screen. His last scene references Ju-on: The Curse, in which the jawless apparition of Kanna haunts her mother Noriko.
- In a deleted scene, his corpse is being autopsied alongside Yoko’s, and the mortician tells Detective Nakagawa that because Alex was covered in Yoko’s blood, the only plausible explanation is that she killed him (which is only true technically). This leaves everyone in the room horribly confused, as this would imply that Yoko was somehow able to survive for 3 days without a jaw in order for this theory to be plausible.
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