Character Relationship Map: Kill Katie Malone

Characters

• Ginger (played by Masiela Lusha) — protagonist

  Jim's best friend and co-owner of the cursed box. She makes a wish for a red rose and later suspects the box caused the teacher's death. She experiences romantic tension with Jim and recognizes the da...

• Jim (played by Stephen Colletti) — supporting

  Protagonist and college student who purchases the mysterious box. He discovers a Gaelic warning, researches Katie Malone's tragic past, and attempts to lay her spirit to rest. He navigates romantic co...

• Robert (played by Dean Cain) — supporting

  The initial owner of the box whose spirit release endangers his spouse. He is violently thrown from a room and later threatened by Katie at a bus station. In the final scene, he desperately tries to r...

• Ellen (played by Cassandra Jean Amell) — supporting

  A sorority member for whom Jim volunteers to set up a haunted house. She shares romantic tension with Jim but sets boundaries, revealing they can only be friends. She is later brutally killed by a spi...

• Tyler (played by Nick Hogan) — supporting

  Ellen's boyfriend who resents Jim's involvement with the haunted house. He encounters the period-dress ghost, refuses to leave her alone, and is fatally disintegrated by her banshee scream.

• Misty (played by Fernanda Romero) — supporting

  Ginger's roommate who secretly borrows her clothes. In art class, her sweater catches on a table, causing her to lose her arm to a paper cutter, marking another victim of the box's influence.

• Katie Malone (played by Sylvia Panacione) — supporting

  The vengeful Irish immigrant spirit trapped in the box. Beloved by her former owner's daughter, she is now protected by that child's ghost. Her release unleashes a series of paranormal murders until t...

• Amy (played by Katy Townsend) — supporting

  A contact Jim reaches out to regarding the box. She warns him that the daughter's vengeful spirit targets him and his friends unless the box is returned to her. She ends up possessing the box in the t...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Jim → Robert (Temporal Successive Box Owners) — They occupy successive positions in the box's chain of ownership.

  Robert initially owns the box, while Jim later buys it through the uBid listing after Robert no longer possesses it.

• Jim → Amy (Professional Information Contact) — Amy serves as an informed contact during Jim's investigation.

  Jim contacts Amy while investigating the box, and Amy asks whether he opened it and released Katie.

• Ellen → Tyler (Romantic Boyfriend) — Their relationship creates romantic and interpersonal tension around Jim.

  The plot identifies Tyler as Ellen's boyfriend, and Tyler resents Jim's involvement with Ellen's haunted house.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Ginger → Katie Malone (Conflict Suspicious Victim) — Ginger becomes an investigator and target within the curse's expanding threat.

  After the teacher's death, Ginger wonders whether Katie was responsible and later faces the daughter's ghost during the Halloween attack.

• Jim → Katie Malone (Narrative Investigator And Supernatural Threat) — Jim's investigation and attempted release of Katie drive the central supernatural plot.

  Jim buys the box, researches Katie Malone's history, and attempts to lay her spirit to rest by freeing her from the box.

• Amy → Robert (Conflict Possessor And Challenger) — The two struggle over control of the dangerous box.

  Amy has the box in the tag scene, while Robert angrily tries to wrestle it from her.

• Jim → Ellen (Alliance Volunteer Supporter) — Jim supports Ellen's project and becomes involved in her social circle.

  Jim helps Ellen set up her sorority's haunted house despite his investigation into the box.

• Jim → Ginger (Social Best Friends) — Their friendship is tested by the cursed box and by romantic tension.

  Jim obtains extra money from his best friends Ginger and Dixie, making Ginger a co-owner of the box. Jim and Ginger later make amends after an argumen...

• Robert → Katie Malone (Conflict Former Keeper And Threat) — Robert is the former owner of the box and an early target of Katie's supernatural retaliation.

  Robert owns the box containing Katie Malone's spirit. Katie threatens his spouse, violently throws Robert from a room, and later confronts him at a bu...

• Tyler → Jim (Conflict Threatening Rival) — Tyler views Jim as an unwanted rival in Ellen's life.

  Tyler does not appreciate Jim's efforts for the haunted house and threatens him before leaving.

• Ginger → Misty (Social Roommates) — Their roommate relationship is strained by Misty's unauthorized borrowing.

  Misty is Ginger's roommate and has been borrowing Ginger's clothes without permission.

Story Analysis

A college student's attempt to understand and release a cursed spirit unleashes an even more vengeful supernatural force.

Plot Progression

1. The Box Changes Hands — Robert loses control of the box after Katie's attack. Jim acquires it through uBid and shares ownership with Ginger.
2. Wishes Turn Violent — Jim opens the box and treats it as a charm, while wishes and supernatural events begin causing deaths. Ginger and Jim start to suspect the box is responsible.
3. Warnings From the Past — Jim finds a Gaelic warning and investigates the box's history. Tyler and Ellen become victims as the spirit's attacks spread across campus.
4. Freedom Unleashes Wrath — Jim learns about Katie's enslavement and her connection to the former owner's daughter. He releases Katie, unknowingly unleashing the daughter's vengeful spirit.
5. Halloween's Final Haunting — Amy warns Jim that the released spirit will kill his friends. During the Halloween attack, Jim drives the ghost back into the box, but the final scene shows the box opening again.