He finds the corpse of Kayako Saeki hidden in the attic and receives a phone call from her husband Takeo Saeki who reveals he has killed Kobayashi's pregnant wife Manami and butchered her unborn child, believing Kayako was being unfaithful upon discovering she has an obsessive crush on Kobayashi.

Sometime later, a woman named Kyoko helps her brother Tatsuya, a real estate agent, to examine the Saeki house and put it on the market.

Tatsuya moves them to his parents' house in the countryside, where Kyoko is seemingly possessed and rocks back and forth, whilst Nobuyuki has become mute.

Both visit police officer Yoshikawa, who has been driven insane by his investigation of the deaths surrounding the Saeki house.

Meanwhile, three schoolgirls named "Saori", "Chiaki", and "Ayano" visit the now-abandoned Saeki house on a dare and drink from a bottle of sake lying around, finding that it tastes horrible.

[citation needed][3] The website Moira Reviews wrote that, although Ju-On: The Grudge was the high point of the film series, The Curse, although a B-budget film, did "produce a number of uncanny scares – the images of the mother’s croaking body crawling down the stairs; the eerie appearances of the little boy.