The Baby Sitters Club - The Babysitter

💎💎THE BABY-SITTERS CLLUB💎💎 – The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed by Melanie Mayron, in her feature directorial debut. It is based on Ann M. Martin’s novel series of the same name and is about one summer in the girls’ lives in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. The film was shot in the California cities of Los Angeles, Altadena and Santa Clara. Seven junior high school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains. When Kristy Thomas, President of The Baby-Sitters Club, has a brilliant idea to run a summer camp, the girls all agree it’s the perfect way to spend their summer together. But life gets complicated as building romance, family problems and three rival teen girls conspire to ruin the club, all putting the friendships between the members to the test. A group of friends in junior high decide to start a summer camp for the kids they babysit. However, their plans are constantly changed by complaining neighbors, school rivals and the usual growing pains – from passing school to dating to reconnecting a relationship with an absentee father.

Kristy Thomas, President of “The Baby-Sitters Club”, decides to open a day camp for their clients. Her best friend, Mary Anne Spier, along with Mary Anne’s stepsister Dawn Schafer, offer their parents’ backyard to serve as the campsite. All of the club members (Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Dawn Schafer, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, Mallory Pike and Jessi Ramsey) vow to keep a close eye on the kids. Meanwhile, Kristy faces problems when she meets her estranged father (who abandoned her family seven years ago and started a new family in California) and faces a dilemma about telling her friends and family about this. Mary Anne is the only one she tells and she too is under pressure as the curiosity of her friends grows. Claudia is forced to attend summer school because she failed Science. Kristy promises to help Claudia study but, because she is seeing her father, she fails to keep her promise. Later on, the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, along with some of their clients, perform a rap song for Claudia who has to take a test; if she fails the test she would have to repeat the eighth grade and drop out of the club.

Stacey has a crush on a 17-year-old boy named Luca. As their relationship ensues, she faces problems telling him about her Diabetes and later, her age. This is revealed after a trip to a New York City club, in which a bouncer does not allow her into a club because she is underage. Lucas is outraged, unable to believe that Stacey is 13 years old. Meanwhile, Dawn must face her neighbor, Mrs. Haberman, who becomes increasingly upset because of the camp activities that are taking place next door. Kristy’s 13^th birthday comes and she has arranged to go to an amusement park with her father. Promising her friends she would make it to her own party, Kristy goes to meet her father, but he does not show up. She begins to walk home until her friends show up in Luca’s car after Mary Anne tells them that Kristy’s father came back. Luca drives the girls back to Mallory’s parents’ cabin and present Kristy with a half-melted birthday cake. As Stacey is saying goodbye to Luca, he tells her that he will be coming to Stoneybrook again next year. Delighted, Stacey tells him that she will be 14 years old when he returns. They share a kiss just before Luca departs. In return for making Mrs. Haberman’s summer miserable, the girls give the greenhouse to her. Meanwhile, Kristy witnesses a miracle when Jackie Rodowsky hits his first home run, hitting Cokie Mason, who is sitting in a tree nearby, in the process.

💎💎 BLUE CAR💎💎 – A troubled young woman is encouraged by her teacher to enter a poetry contest. Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her English teacher, Mr. Auster. But what started out as a mentoring relationship begins to get a bit more complex. Blue Car is a 2002 American drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was the first film she directed and wrote. The film stars David Strathaim, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin and Frances Fisher. Megan is a teenage gifted writer living in the Dayton, Ohio area. She has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her mother, who works 12-hour days and goes to school at night, leaving Megan to babysit her younger sister, Lily. The girls’ father does not pay child support, causing financial strain in the household. Lily has serious emotional problems; she cuts herself, refuses to eat and speaks about becoming an angel. After being checked into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, Lily kills herself by jumping out of an open window as she tries to “fly”. Meg finds solace in her English teacher, Mr. Auster, who claims he is passionate about writing a novel. He becomes a comfort to Megan and encourages her to enter a poetry contest, which is later followed by one one-on-one poetry tutoring. After winning the local round of the competition, Megan wants to compete at the finals in Florida during spring break. With her mother unable and unwilling to fund the trip, Megan resorts to stealing and is barely able to make it to Florida. A closer, pseudo-sexual relationship develops between Megan and Mr. Auster. The two run into each other outside the hotel that is hosting the poetry competition and go to a hotel room, where Megan reluctantly has sex with Mr. Auster, who stops after realizing that she is not comfortable with the situation. After this, Megan realizes that Mr. Auster has not written a novel at all and that it was all just a ruse to impress her. After writing and delivering a brand-new poem subtly denouncing Mr. Auster, Megan walks out of the competition. Later, back home, she decides to live with her father, riding away with him in his blue car.

💎💎KILL THEORY💎💎 – Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive. A group of college students visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate their upcoming graduation. The fun doesn’t last long when a sadistic psychopath forces them to participate in his deadly contest. The rules are simple – in order to survive they must kill each other. As tension builds and relationships begin to crumble, they realize that only one can make it out alive. Could you trust your boyfriend? Your girlfriend? Your best friend? Only one can go home. So, who will be the last man or woman standing? Are you capable of the unthinkable? That’s the question seven college students face when they visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate graduation. Trapped in a deadly game, they’re forced to kill one another in order to survive. Friends and couples must test their trust and as the clock ticks away: Alliance form, tension escalates and hope begins to fade. Some will and fight for love, others to survive, but all will change. Because deep down… we’re all killers.

Kill Theory is a 2009 horror-thriller film directed by Chris Moore and written by Kelly C. Palmer. An unnamed man is sitting in a psychiatrist’s office, being released from an insane asylum. His doctor, Dr. Karl Truftin (Don McManus), recaps how the man sacrificed his three friends during a mountain climbing expedition, cutting their climbing ropes in order to save himself. Although the man insists that anyone in his situation would have made the decision to kill survive, the doctor explains that due to good behavior and evident remorse over causing the deaths, the man is to be set free with regular psychiatrist evaluation. Meanwhile, Brent (Teddy Dunn) is traveling to his father’s lake house with his girlfriend Amber (Ryanne Duzich), other couples Michael (Patrick Flueger) and Jennifer (Agnes Bruckner), Carlos (Theo Rossi) and Nicole (Steffi Wickens), as well as their friend Freddy (Daniel Franzese). Upon arriving they are surprised to find Brent’s stepsister Avery (Taryn Manning) has been living there. Brent and Alex argue however, the others convince Brent to let her stay. After settling in, Amber refers to an unspecified event that implies that she and Michael were intimate at one point, however Michael brushes off the topic quickly. The group party and drink into the night until everyone goes to bed. Carlos and Nicole decide to sleep outside on the porch. Carlos, being heavily intoxicated, passes out immediately. When Nicole goes into the kitchen to get a drink, she is attacked by an unknown man.

Sometime later, Nicole’s body is thrown through a window onto Freddy who alerts the others with his screams. The group panics before noticing the word “TV” cut into Nicole’s stomach. After turning on the TV, the group views a video of Nicole being handed a loaded gun and told to shoot Carlos in order to survive. Nicole refuses and instead turns the gun on her attacker who overpowers her and slits her throat. The unseen man then explains to the group through a Walkie-Talkie that come 6 a.m. only one member of the group should be alive or they will all die. The man also explains that Nicole was given the same option as they are, kill to survive, however she failed. Collectively the group decides to barricade themselves into the house, realizing their phones do not work. Carlos decides to make a run toward the boat to retrieve a gun placed in the key box. Brent follows him and they find the boat has been sunk, but Brent is able to retrieve the gun anyway. Noticing a nearby axe, Carlos runs to get it, but is caught in a giant bear trap. Brent begins to help him, however after hearing someone approach from the trees nearby he leaves Carlos and returns to the house, telling the others that Carlos has been killed. When Freddy begins to become hysterical over their situation, a bandaged-up Carlos makes it to the house. Although barely conscious, Carlos is able to tell Jennifer that Brent had left him. Jennifer manages to knock the gun out of Brent’s hand and gives it to Michael, no longer trusting Brent. The group decides they have to try and leave in the van in order to get Carlos to a hospital despite Brent’s protests and expectation that the van will be rigged to explode. Alex leaves the house and successfully brings the van to the front door of the house, allowing everyone to get in. However, while driving away from the house, road spikes blow all of the tires. The unnamed man quickly shoots rigged balloons of gasoline which spill over the van before telling the group that there is no escape and that they need to sacrifice one person in the next 60 seconds or they will all be burned alive. Brent pushes the wounded Carlos out of the van where he is shot in the head.

The group panics, Brent deserts Amber by running into the forest, leaving her to return to the house with Michael, Jennifer and Freddy. Alex attempts to escape on her motorbike however is nearly shot when attempting to do so, instead fleeing towards the lake. While Brent runs through the forest he is attacked by the killer, only spared due to his promise to kill everyone else. Brent then attacks Alex, drowning her in the lake. He quickly returns to the house and convinces Freddy to get the gun off of Michael by lying to him saying that they could both escape on the boat. Freddy retrieves the gun from Michael but eventually shoots Brent after realizing he was lying about the boat and was going to shoot everyone. Freddy then forces Amber to leave the house before attempting to do the same to Michael and Jennifer. Michael tries to reason with the hysterical Freddy, but Brent soon stabs Freddy through the head with a fire poker, having survived being shot. Michael and Jennifer run into the basement but are then cornered by Brent. As Brent prepares to shoot them both, Amber returns and bludgeons him to death with a spade. Michael and Jennifer go back upstairs, leaving Amber in shock in the basement. Eventually she finds a gun planted by the killer in her bag and reluctantly draws it on Jennifer who has the other gun. The two girls get into an argument over Michael, with Amber confessing her love for him. Jennifer shoots Amber in the stomach, much to Michael’s shock. Realizing it is nearly 6 a.m. and the killer is approaching the house, Michael and Jennifer escape into the basement with an unconscious Amber. In the basement they hide and attempt to shoot the killer when he comes downstairs, however it is revealed to be Alex, having survived her attack from Brent earlier. Alex quickly dies from the gunshot wound before Jennifer turns on Michael in desperation, stabbing him in the stomach. Michael tells Jennifer he would have died for her, but before she can kill him Amber attacks Jennifer and strangles her to death. Amber crawls next to Michael, intent on staying with him until the end. As the clock chimes six and the man approaches, Michael kills himself in order to save Amber. As the man passes, Amber says she’ll never be like him and though he expresses skepticism, he leaves her alive and departs from the house. The killer leaves a voicemail in the psychiatrist’s office saying he’s proved his theory that desperate people would resort to murder and the camera pans along a photograph to reveal that Brent was the doctor’s son. The killer laughs and says he’s now found closure.

💎💎BABYSITTER MASSACRE💎💎 –After the loss of one of their friends, a group of unsuspecting babysitters find themselves stalked by a faceless killer who takes great pleasure in slaughtering young women on the night of Halloween. Has he returned for the rest of them? A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later, they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club. To recover from the unexpected loss of their companion who was kidnapped and brutally murdered, the best friends since high school and former members of a local babysitter club – Linda, Lucky, Angela and Arlene – decide to throw a farewell Halloween party. However, unbeknownst to them, the faceless killer who takes great pleasure in slaughtering young women on the night of Halloween is stalking Angela and the remaining girls of the club. Has he returned for the rest of them? Babysitter Massacre is a 2013 horror film written and directed by Henrique Couto. Three sequels, Babysitter Massacre II: Slay Belles, Babysitter Massacre III: Overnight and Babysitter Massacre IV: Heavy Metal, were crowd funded via Kickstarter in 2018. On Halloween, a babysitter is sent several threatening text messages, the last of which reads, “I’m not in the house… yet.” Moments later, the sitter is grabbed by a man in a white mask, who duct tapes her to a chair, rips three of her fingernails out and slits her throat. Elsewhere, Angela chats with her neighbor, Mr. Walker, whose daughter, April, was abducted seven years ago and has recently been deemed deceased in absentia. Angela was a member of the same babysitters club as April and when she was taken, every member of the club besides Angela blamed Bianca, who was with April when she disappeared. To try and cheer up the dour Bianca, Angela invites her to a party she is throwing, while out in the woods another girl is slain by the masked man. The killer then breaks into a house, where he murders a couple, mutilating the girl with a straight razor before slashing her throat. Angela and her friend Lucky prepare for the party, as the killer butchers another girl and her coworker in an office. Bianca, who had just argued with the victim, spots the murderer (whose disguise is similar to the one worn by the person she saw take April) leaving the building and tries to follow him, but he eludes her. The maniac continues his rampage as Angela and Lucky welcome their first guest, Arlene and Bianca angrily blows off her ex-boyfriend, Tyler. Bianca visits Angela, but storms off when Arlene taunts her with an Ouija board, afterwards deciding to check on the other babysitter club members with Tyler, due to her suspicion that the masked man could be the same one who kidnapped April.

After massacring a gathering of six people, the madman breaks into Angela’s house and chloroforms her, Lucky and Arlene. Angela and Arlene awaken in the basement, where Lucky, who has been beaten and tied to a chair, informs them that their captor told her that he will free Angela and Arlene if they kill her with a hammer. As it is their only option, Lucky tells Arlene to sacrifice her, which the sobbing Arlene reluctantly does. Bianca has Tyler drop her off at Angela’s house, where she is approached by Mr. Walker, who hints that he was the one who murdered April before he knocks Bianca unconscious with a head butt. Mr. Walker proceeds to enter the basement, strangles Arlene and unmasks himself for Angela. Mr. Walker takes Angela upstairs, incapacitates her by cutting her ankles and rants about how much he loves her; he murdered all of the others in order to free her from her old life, so that she could start a new one with him, asserting, “You will come to love me, in time.” While Mr. Walker pours gasoline throughout the kitchen, Angela stabs him in the stomach, with Mr. Walker doing the same to her. Angela begins crawling away while Mr. Walker takes out a lighter, proclaiming, “The only thing more romantic than running away together, is dying together. Love is a bitch!” The disoriented Bianca enters, but is told to run by Angela, who reassures her by saying, “It’s not your fault.” The house erupts up in flames and Bianca goes into hysterics as Tyler tries to console her and emergency services approach.

💎💎THE BABYSITTER (1995)💎💎 – A teenage babysitter is the focus of two boys and a man’s separate obsessions. A teenage girl babysits two young kids while the parents go out to a party. Her boyfriend is coerced (with the help of alcohol) by an old “friend” into going to the house. Both boys are obsessed with the babysitter, as is the father of the two children. The story basically shows the effects drink has on different people. A nubile young babysitter (Alicia Silverstone) has no idea that she is the center of a maelstrom of male sexual fantasies. Based on the disturbing short story by Robert Coover, the drama presents a non-linear account of a perfectly mundane event. Having a social engagement, a couple calls for their babysitter. She arrives, they go out, her boyfriend comes over and the weirdness begins – for director Guy Ferland makes little distinction between the character fantasies and what is really occurring. Something will happen and then it will happen again, only the outcome is different. What makes this dark film so disturbingly creepy is that none of the males involved, neither the frustrated boyfriend, the horny husband who hired her, or even her little charge has nice fantasies about her. The film contains several sexual scenes and some scenes of violence. This dark drama presents a non-linear account of a perfectly mundane event. Having a social engagement, a couple calls for their babysitter. She arrives, they go out, her boyfriend comes over and the weirdness begins.

The Babysitter is a 1995 American erotic thriller film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Alicia Silverstone, based on the short story of the same name by Robert Coover in his collection Pricksongs and Descants (1969). The film was released direct-to-video in October 1995. Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Jennifer, while Dolly misinterprets Bill’s compliments as a sign of attraction and fantasizes about him. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s ex-boyfriend, Jack (Jeremy London), whom she broke up with after he began pressuring her for sex, runs into his estranged troublemaking friend Mark (Nicky Katt), Bill and Bernice’s son, who once had a fling with Jennifer and still harbors feelings for her. Throughout the night, Harry, Jack and Mark have increasingly racy fantasies about Jennifer. Jack calls Jennifer and asks to visit her at the Tuckers’ residence, but she refuses. Mark later steals beer from Bill’s party, where they run into Harry, who becomes fixated on the notion Jack might go to his house to have sex with Jennifer. Jack and Mark get increasingly drunk and show up uninvited to see Jennifer, but she refuses to let them in. They then spend the rest of the night stalking around the house and spying on her through the window. Meanwhile, Harry gets drunk and falls asleep in his car, where he has a nightmare of Jennifer and Jack having sex, which drives him to rush home and confront them. In his absence, Dolly makes a pass at Bill, who rejects her, but agrees to keep her secret and offers to drive her home. At the Tuckers’ residence, Jack and Mark force their way in while Jennifer is taking a bath and after a tense argument, Mark knocks Jack unconscious and attempts to rape Jennifer, who runs out of the house. Mark pursues her and ends up being fatally run over by Harry, who is arrested for drunk driving just as Bill and Dolly arrive and hear about the accident. Before being escorted home, Jennifer confronts Jack, who is being questioned by the police, and asks him, “What were you thinking?” before leaving an ashamed and guilt-stricken Jack behind.

💎💎THE BABYSITTER (1980)💎💎 – The Babysitter is a 1980 American made-for-television drama horror thriller film directed by Peter Medak and starring Patty Duke, William Shatner and Stephanie Zimbalist about a young girl hired as a live-in nanny who infiltrates and tries to destroy a suburban Seattle family. The film originally premiered as The ABC Friday Night Movie on November 28, 1980. The film is rated M in New Zealand for violence, horror, drug use and sex scenes. Spoiled twelve-year-old Tara’s new best friend from next-door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara’s mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad. Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter, Tara. Liz’s husband Jeff isn’t too thrilled with the arrangement and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile next-door neighbor Dr. Lindquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.

A bored and isolated child by the name of Tara Benedict (Quinn Cummings) is spying on a boy while he sets up his sailboat. Her only friend appears to be an imaginary friend in the form a hideous torn-apart doll called “Abby”. She finds herself being watched by mysterious and alluring eighteen-year-old Joanna Redwine (Stephanie Zimbalist), who whispers ‘’poor Tara…” before rushing off into the woods. The Benedict Family have just recently moved to the island. The father, Dr. Jeff Benedict (William Shatner) and mother, Liz Benedict (Patty Duke) are not happy. The father is a dentist in Seattle and the mother is a complex, contradictory person. She is overprotective to the point of oppressiveness and yet, so distracted by her own problems that she doesn’t pay attention to anything. It becomes apparent that Joanna is an orphan (although a beautiful 18-year-old) who teases and plays hide-and-seek with Tara in the first few minutes of the film. Tara (a lonely 12-year-old) becomes interested in Joanna and follows her in turn and they become friends. Tara has a crush on the boy who lives next door, Scotty (David Wallace). Although they say “next door” the area is so “rural” that to get “next door” one has to drive there. Scotty lives with his grandfather, Dr. Lindquist (John Houseman). Joanna realizes that Tara has a crush because while she is watching Tara from a distance, Tara is watching Scotty, but is too shy to talk to him. Joanna takes the lead in meeting Scotty’s boat when he comes in from a sail. Tara introduces Joanna to him and to her family. Scotty (sixteen-years-old) is interested in Joanna.

Soon Joanna Redwine has moved in with the family as housekeeper, cook and babysitter. She tells them that she recently graduated from high school and has been a foster child, but that the family she lived with went to Europe and left her alone to find a new family. Every so often Joanna goes back alone to the house across the water where she recently was a foster child, housekeeper and babysitter. She talks to some invisible person or people when she is inside the darkened house with its furniture covered in transparent plastic sheeting. Joanna is a capable housekeeper at first. She keeps everything clean and takes care of everybody in the family seemingly effortlessly. And she is a good babysitter. She gets Tara interested in going outdoors, learning to swim, learning about nature. Then she becomes the confidant of Liz Benedict who tells her all her unhappy feelings about her jealousy of her husband and having nothing to do because she is a housewife and a recovering alcoholic.

Jeff Benedict tries to check on her references but cannot find out anything about her. Dr. Lindquist becomes suspicious of Joanna and calls social services trying to find out where she lived before coming to the island. He finds one foster mother who tells him that Joanna murdered her baby, but that she couldn’t prove it. Dr. Lindquist tells Jeff and Liz what the foster mother had said, but they do not believe him and tell him he should have better things to do with his time than spread vicious gossip. Joanna becomes Liz Benedict’s only friend. She encourages Liz to start drinking again every day. Joanna encourages Liz to become angrier than she already was at her husband. She encourages Liz in thinking that her husband is having an affair. Soon Liz stops going out to socialize with their friends and colleagues. She sits at home and drinks. But one evening Joanna tells Liz to go ahead and go out to a get together. She tells her to be witty and brilliant. And she says that Tara has invited some friends over for a party and that she, Joanna will chaperone. But the invited friends are actually Scotty and other older teens. Tara is considered the baby and told to go to bed. Tara falls asleep on the stairway and wakes up to find Joanna and Scotty making love on the floor. Tara is hurt but Joanna scolds her and tells her go away. Scotty is in love with Joanna.

One day Scotty, Joanna and Tara go out sailing on Scotty’s boat. It is a beautiful day and everything is peaceful and serene. Then as Scotty leans over to check on something, the sail crosses swiftly over and the boom knocks him into the water and unconscious he floats there, while Tara cries to Joanna to do something, to turn the boat around, to help him, but Joanna only smiles and does not move. Dr. Lindquist, Scotty’s grandfather, is devastated and very angry at Joanna’s twisted behavior. He finds it difficult to get any information on her past. Meanwhile, Liz has become helpless because of all the alcohol and pills she is consuming and Joanna is busy trying to seduce Jeff. The house is no longer clean and neat. Everything is out of place and a mess. Joanna no longer buys supplies or food and when she does serve something to eat it is weird and inedible. All the houseplants are dead, the mother is always stoned and crying, the father is busy working in Seattle during the days and trying to get ahead socially in the evenings at cocktail parties with their friends, while the daughter, Tara is dismayed, frightened and alone.

Dr. Lindquist finally gets the address of the house where Joanna last lived. This is the house where she often goes to talk to invisible people. Dr. Lindquist goes there at night, with a large flashlight and searches through the place. The downstairs rooms are quiet and all the furnishings are covered. He goes upstairs and finds Joanna’s previous foster family, mother, father and son, lying dead in the master bedroom bed. They also are neatly covered in transparent plastic sheeting. Dr. Lindquist had tried to get help from the police after his grandson was killed, but they, like the Benedicts, would not pay any attention to him. Now he has some evidence and he goes to get help. Meanwhile, Joanna is threatening her new family. She knocks out Jeff and then chases Tara through the house and into the basement. Tara manages to knock Joanna down and shake her off every time. Joanna then arms herself with a large kitchen knife and goes looking for Tara who tries to wake up Liz who is still sedated in bed. Joanna enters the bedroom but before she can kill them, Jeff revives and struggles with Joanna over the knife when Dr. Lindquist arrives with the police. Joanna breaks down crying, telling the Benedicts how tired she is of having no family to call her own and how worried she was that the Benedicts would cast her away. Before the police take her away, she tells the Benedicts and Dr. Lindquist “please take care of yourselves.” Tara gives Abby to Joanna, finally parting with her childish doll for good and giving it to someone who needs it more, implying that Tara has forgiven Joanna for her wrongdoings. The film ends with a paused shot of Joanna’s eyes while she holds Abby and then glances up at the Benedicts and Dr. Lindquist one last time.

Dr. Jeff Benedict and his wife Liz have relocated to Seattle from Chicago. They have a 12-year-old daughter, Tara. Liz feels that she needs some help with childcare and housekeeping. She happens to meet an 18-year-old girl named Joanna Redwine. Without consulting her husband, Liz hires Joanna as a live-in nanny. She weans Tara off of the TV and engages her in outdoor activities. The Benedicts’ neighbor Doc Lindquist watches Joanna warily one day as she pushes Tara to exhaust herself swimming. At a party, he overhears Joanna tell his grandson Scotty that she had lived in Seattle prior to working for the Benedicts. He points out to Jeff that this story does not match the one she had told Liz. Doc begins his own quiet investigation into Joanna’s background and finds it almost impossible to recreate where she has lived, because of the many foster homes where she had lived and the fact that she is legally an adult. Liz is still overly stressed and begins to confide in Joanna. She is convinced that Jeff has a mistress in Seattle. She explains that she has not had a drink in a year. Joanna suggests that there is no harm in having a drink.

Liz’s drinking quickly spirals out of control. Jeff leaves her at Doc’s house during a party. Back at home, Joanna is waiting for Jeff in the master bedroom. She attempts to seduce Jeff, but he asks her to leave. The next day, Joanna tells Liz that Jeff had come to her bedroom when he came from the party. Joanna suggests she should leave but stays at Liz’s insistence. Meanwhile, Doc continues his investigation in Joanna’s background by going to The Department of Social Services. A clerk at the counter refuses to give Doc the information because Joanna is 18, is past the age to be considered a child. The clerk steps away from the counter for a moment, leaving Joanna’s file on the counter. Doc is able to sneakily peruse the file and quickly jot down some important information. The clerk returns and informs Doc that they are not to help him anymore. Doc thanks him and walks away. Doc heads to visit an address, presumably obtained from the file. Doc arrives at the home of Mrs. Welford pretending to be Joanna’s doctor. Mrs. Welford acknowledges that she fostered Joanna some years ago and issues a strong warning to Doc to send her to someone else and to stay away from her, or otherwise he’ll regret it. Mrs. Welford tells Doc that Joanna killed her baby. Doc meets with Liz and Jeff to discuss the information he found. Liz rejects the information because the police were not involved. Further, she considers the investigation by Doc to be a malicious attempt to spread gossip about a teenage girl. Liz abruptly walks away, but Jeff apologizes to Do, although he questions Doc’s motives for pursuing the matter. Doc explains that he has a bad gut feeling about Joanna. Doc apologizes for the impasse and invites the family on an outing on the boat on Sunday. As Joanna’s manipulations start to become more overt, she begins to neglect her duties. She is cross with Tara and stops maintaining the house.

One day, when Joanna, Scotty and Tara go for a sail, Joanna releases the jib boom into Scotty’s head, knocking him unconscious into the water. As Tara pleads for Joanna to help Scotty, she silently sails the boat away from his floating body. Doc urges the police to investigate Scotty’s death, but there is no compelling evidence that it is anything other than an accident. Doc’s investigation into Joanna grows more urgent and he finally tracks down her last address. Meanwhile, as Liz is confined to bedrest, Jeff finally allows himself to be seduced by Joanna. The next day, Joanna serves Tara and Jeff raw, whole beef tongue for dinner. She comes downstairs in Liz’s negligee and kisses Jeff, who apologizes for sleeping with her and fires her. He promises to take her to Seattle the next morning and set her up with some money. Meanwhile, Doc arrives at Joanna’s last house to find the bodies of three people in the master bedroom wrapped in plastic. Joanna knocks Jeff out and chases Tara down into the basement. Tara flees back upstairs and tries to wake up a sedated Liz. Joanna grabs a kitchen knife and returns to the bedroom. Jeff wakes up and manages to wrestle the knife out of her hands. Doc arrives with the police as Joanna is finally stopped. The police lead her out of the house and put her in a patrol car. Tara gives Joanna her doll as the movie ends.

THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE, THE DEN AND THE CRUSH

💎💎THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE💎💎 – A teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. Story follows a senior, Chrissie, who is skeptical and another, Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim. Chrissie’s last week of high school in Downers Grove, IL, is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a “curse” that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove. The haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of life or death. She’s an unusual girl in an ordinary town. Her mother’s sex life is overshadowing her own; her brother is aboard his own private Enterprise, slipping into one black hole after another; her best friend is hornier than a Prince song; leaving her eccentric grandmother as the only source of wisdom in a rapid downward spiral. As Chrissie tries to take control of the events that shape her life, she finds the events beginning to take control of her, until she is finally cornered by choices with everlasting consequences. Full of humor, wit and the sacrilegious worldview of a savvy teenager, Downers Grove paints a searing portrait of the American dream in all of its broken glory.The Curse of Downers Grove is an American thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis. Based on the 1998 novel Downers Grove by Michael Hornburg, the film stars Kevin Zegers, Bella Heathcote, Penelope Mitchell, Lucas Till, Zane Holtz, Helen Slater and Tom Arnold. The film received a limited theatrical release on August 21, 2015 and a subsequent DVD/Blu-Ray release on September 1, 2015. Set in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the film is a teen angst thriller set in a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. The story follows the lives of two seniors: Chrissie, who is skeptical of the curse and Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim.

💎💎THE DEN💎💎- The Den (released in some countries as Hacked) is a 2013 American slasher film by Zachary Donohue and his feature film directorial debut. The film was first released in Russia on December 23, 2013 and was given a simultaneous limited theatrical and VOD release on March 14, 2014, through IFC Midnight. It stars Melanie Papalia as a young woman who discovers a murder via webcam. The film is shot as a computer screen film. While studying the habits of web cam chat users from the apparent safety of her own home, a young woman’s life begins to spiral out of control after witnessing a grisly murder online. A young victim studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim. The movie begins with Elizabeth logging into a webcam-based social media site known as The Den, which allows users to chat with random strangers across the world, similar to Chatroulette. For her graduation project in Sociology, she proposes to chat with as many strangers as possible and calculate how many meaningful conversations she can accumulate. The graduate board reluctantly gives her a grant, with the help of Sally, one of her friends on the graduate board pushing for her approval. She spends the next few months continuously chatting with strangers, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, Damien and friends Jenni and Max. Though most of her chats are quickly ended due to sexual content or scams, she accumulates plenty of data and is optimistic about the outcome of the project.While chatting with strangers with Jenni, Elizabeth encounters a woman whose webcam appears to be broken. The stranger reacts aggressively to Jenni when Elizabeth is away from the webcam and Jenni logs off. Afterwards, Elizabeth’s account is hacked and her webcam is repeatedly turned on without her permission. The stranger attempts to chat with Elizabeth again the next day while she is in a coffee shop but logs off quickly when another customer approaches the webcam. That night, Damien surprises Elizabeth by showing up to her home in the middle of the night and Elizabeth’s hacked webcam records the couple having sex before the hacker sends the video to Elizabeth’s graduate board. Later, Elizabeth is prompted to chat with the stranger again; the stranger reveals that they witnessed Elizabeth having sex and later their webcam turns on and reveals the account holder bound and gagged before being murdered by a masked man. Elizabeth is shaken and immediately takes the video of the murder to the police, who acknowledge that it appears genuine but advise her that such snuff films are usually faked and there is little they can do about it. Though Elizabeth later stumbles upon a disturbingly realistic depiction of a death during a game of Russian Roulette that turns out to be faked and her friends (including Max, who is a computer scientist) insist that it is a hoax, she remains unconvinced and is determined to solve the murder. However, both the police and the other users of The Den turn out to be unhelpful. When she enlists Max to hack the account to see where it originated, he finds that it has been routed through countless proxies and is untraceable.Damien is abducted while chatting with Elizabeth, who has her back turned at the moment of his kidnapping and does not realize he is missing until she receives a bizarre call from his computer, showing his house completely empty. Though Elizabeth implores the police to investigate, they tell her that there is nothing that they can do. Meanwhile, Jenni is lured to Elizabeth’s house by the hacker, who pretends to be Elizabeth and abducts her when she arrives. While harried from trying to find a way to reach Damien, Elizabeth receives an angry call from Sally, informing her that the video of her and Damien having sex was sent to the entire graduate board. Sally does not believe Elizabeth when the latter insists she was hacked and informs her that her grant is suspended until further notice. Later, while trying to reach Jenni, Elizabeth is lured to her house, where she finds the power cut. Seeing water flooding from the bathroom, Elizabeth enters to find Jenni in the bathtub, her wrists slashed in an apparent suicide attempt. Though Jenni is alive when Elizabeth finds her, she dies soon after and Elizabeth finds a suicide note emailed to her, ostensibly from the hacker posing as Jenni.Elizabeth is further shaken when she receives a message showing the attackers stalking and entering a home owned by Lynn, Elizabeth’s pregnant sister. Though Elizabeth notifies the police and calls Lynn to warn her, the message is garbled. The attackers bind Lynn and prepare to cut open her stomach, but abruptly leave, hiding the camera as they do so. Later, when the house is surrounded by police, one of the attackers returns and picks up the camera, revealing that they are either part of law enforcement or posing as a police officer. The attacker fixates on the father of Lynn’s child, who she is separated from, irritating her. The attacker leaves and gets into the car and follows Elizabeth back to her home, where she is packing in preparation to keep her sister company. She receives a chat request from Max, which shows the head the lead detective entering Max’s house, only to be murdered. Elizabeth calls for help from the officer guarding her, but she finds him murdered as well. She is attacked by a hooded figure hidden in her closet, but she stabs him repeatedly and flees, only to be apprehended by another hooded attacker outside.Elizabeth awakens in a room of a nightmarish, abandoned complex, chained to a wall with a GoPro stapled to her forehead. A computer is in the room, forcing her to chat with the abducted Damien, who informs her that there are many other attackers. She is also shown a recorded video of Max being strangled with plastic wrap by the killers. Damien is then beaten and taken away to presumably be killed offscreen. Afterwards, another hooded man enters the room with Elizabeth, preparing to kill her, but she overpowers him and strangles him with her chain. Unlocking her shackles with his keys, she attempts to escape the dark complex, armed with a discarded hammer. She is chased by a number of killers, one of whom is a young man who she attacks, demanding to know where Damien is; he tells her that he is not there. She manages to escape to aboveground, bludgeoning other attackers before hijacking one of their cars, but crashes when blindsided by another member’s car; she is removed from the wreck by the killers dragged back to the complex. The film cuts to another woman, Brianne, on The Den who chatted with Elizabeth at the start of the project. Much like Elizabeth’s first interaction with the killers, she is lured to chat when one of the attackers pretends Elizabeth’s webcam is broken. Brianne then views a recording of Elizabeth being hanged almost to death and then shot in the head by the killers. It is then revealed that the video of Elizabeth’s death is also viewed by a man surfing a website that features snuff film “narratives” of victims lured by killers exploiting The Den and is preparing to pay for Brianne’s “narrative” before being interrupted by his young son.

Slasher and Horror Movies: Yella and Carnival of Souls

💎💎YELLA💎💎 – Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can’t quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to a dramatic conclusion, Yella’s life takes an odd shift. Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in their native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Phillip, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Phillip’s help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life… Yella is a 2007 German psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by Christian Petzold and starring Nina Hoss. The film is an unofficial remake of the 1962 American film Carnival of Souls. Yella premiered at the 57^th Berlin International Film Festival where Hoss won the Silver Bear for Best Actress Award.

A young businesswoman gets in touch with her taste for cutthroat corporate tactics by slowly seducing her inner demons in The State I Am In writer/director Christian Petzold’s free-flowing dramatic thriller. Immediately accosted by her ex-husband, Ben (Hinnerk Schonemann) upon returning to her hometown of Wittenberg, Yella Fichte (Nina Hoss) blows her former spouse off before informing father that she has landed a lucrative accounting position in Hanover. When Ben subsequently offers Yella a ride to the airport, she reluctantly accepts but immediately realizes her mistake when he lashes out at her in an angry tirade before driving the car into the River Elbe. Just barely managing to escape from the car before her lungs fill with water, Yella swims to the shore and catches the first train to Hanover. As it turns out, Yella’s new boss (Michael Wittenborn) has just been fired, yet after rejecting his thinly veiled advances the job-seeking woman seems to experience a stroke of luck when she makes the acquaintance of roving venture capitalist Phillip (David Striesow). Later, after Yella accompanies cold and calculating businessman Phillip to an important meeting, the relationship between the pair quickly turns personal.

Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Phillip, a handsome business executive with whom an unlikely romance soon blossoms. But just as Yella seems poised to realize her dreams, she finds herself haunted by buried truths that threaten to destroy her newfound happiness. Following a separation from her husband, Yella Fichte (Nina Hoss) plans to leave Wittenberg for a new accountancy job in Hanover. Her husband, Ben (Hinnerk Schonemann), insists on giving her a ride to the train station. She reluctantly agrees. When she refuses to return to him, he becomes abusive and won’t let her out of the car. He drives through a bridge siding into a river. They both escape the crash, but Yella leaves him unconscious on the shoreline and catches her train. On her arrival, she is approached by Phillip (David Striesow), a businessman, about becoming his assistant. She doesn’t give him a firm answer. The next day, she discovers that the man who hired her no longer works for the company. The man convinces her to steal a portfolio from the office for him but rewards her by making a crude pass that she rebuffs.

She plans to return to Wittenberg the next day and falls asleep with her door open. Phillip walks in, awakens her and renews his offer. She accepts. He involves her in a series of unethical moneymaking schemes using evidence of malfeasance to scam money out of competitors. Phillip tests her loyalty by asking her to make various deposits totaling €75,000, but actually gives her €100,000. She plans to keep the difference to bribe Ben to stay away, but Phillip catches her. She explains her situation and he forgives her. On separate occasions, Ben attempts to kidnap her and tries to bargain with her to return to him. Instead, his abusive gestures drive her into Phillip’s arms. Phillip loses his job due to his unethical practices. He tells Yella that their scams were intended to raise money to begin a new enterprise, but he’s short €200,000. Yella blackmails one of his previous victims for the additional funds. As they wait for the man to deliver the money to them, Yella as a strange vision of him. When he doesn’t arrive as expected, she is compelled to look for him.

At the man’s home, his wife helps Yella. They find him face down in a backyard pond. Phillip arrives and helps pull the body out of the water. He believes that Yella’s threats drove him to suicide. The police are involved and Yella is arrested. As she is carted to jail, she finds herself back in Ben’s car, going off the bridge. Wittenberg police pull Ben’s car from the water and find Yella and Ben’s bodies inside.

💎💎CARNIVAL OF SOULS💎💎 – Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film written, produced and directed by Herk Harvey and starring Candace Hilligross. Its plot follows Mary Henry, a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to assimilate with the locals and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Director Harvey also appears in the film as a ghoulish strange who stalks her throughout. Filmed in Lawrence, Kansas and Salt Lake City, Carnival of Souls was shot on a budget of $33,000 and Harvey employed various guerrilla filmmaking techniques to finish the production. It was Harvey’s only feature film and did not gain widespread attention when originally released as a double feature with The Devil’s Messenger in 1962. Set to an organ score by Gene Moore, the film has been contemporarily noted by critics and film scholars for its cinematography and foreboding atmosphere. The film has a large cult following and is occasionally screened at film and Halloween festivals and has bene cited as a wide-ranging influence on numerous filmmakers including David Lynch, George A. Romero and Lucrecia Martel.

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward and abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, the eerily effective B-movie classic Carnival of Souls was intended to have “the look of a Bergman and the feel of a Cocteau”- and, with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score, it succeeds. Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece gained a cult following on late-night television and continues to inspire filmmakers today.

In Kansas, Mary Henry is riding in a car with two other young women when some men challenge them to a drag race. As they speed across a bridge, their car plunges into the river. The police spend hours dredging the murky, fast-running water without success. Mary miraculously surfaces, but she cannot remember how she survived. Mary moves to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she has been hired as a church organist. While driving through the desert, Mary’s radio picks up strange organ music and she has visions of a ghoulish, pasty-faced figure (simply called “The Man” in dialogue). She glimpses a large, abandoned pavilion on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, which seems to beckon to her in the twilight. A gas station attendant tells her the pavilion was first a bathhouse, then a dance hall and finally a carnival before it closed.

In town, Mary rents a room. She meets the proprietor who informs her there is another lodger staying there Mary unpacks her suitcase and goes to the church where she will be playing the organ. At the church she meets the Minister and plays the organ for the first time. At the Minister’s offer, Mary takes a ride out to the pavilion at the lake. She is stopped from entering by the Minister who warns her that to enter would be illegal. When she returns to her lodgings Mary meets a man, John, the only other lodger, who wants to become better acquainted. The blonde newcomer though is not interested. That night, she becomes upset when she sees “The Man” downstairs and retreats to her room. Soon, Mary begins experiencing terrifying interludes when she becomes invisible and inaudible to the rest of the world, as if she simply is not there. When “The Man” appears briefly in front of her in a park, she flees, right into the arms of a Dr. Samuels. He tries to help her, acknowledging he is not a psychiatrist.

Mary’s new employer, the Minister (Art Ellison), is put off when she declines a reception to meet the congregation. When she practices for the first time, she finds herself shifting from a hymn to eerie music. In a trance, she sees “The Man” and other ghouls dancing at the pavilion. The Minister, hearing the strange music, denounces it as sacrilege and insists upon her resignation. Terrified of being alone, Mary agrees to go out with John. When they return home, he smooth-talks his way into her room. When she sees “The Man” in the mirror, she tells John what has been happening to her. He leaves, believing she is losing her mind. After going back to Samuels’ office, Mary believes she has to go to the pavilion. However, Mary is confronted by “The Man” and his fellow ghouls. She tries frantically to escape, boarding a bus to leave town, only to find that all the passengers are ghouls. It is just a nightmare; she awakes in her car. In the end, she is drawn back to the pavilion, where she finds her tormentors dancing, a pale version of herself paired with “The Man.” When she runs away, the ghouls chase her onto the beach. She collapses as they close in. The following day, Samuels, the Minister and police go to the pavilion to look for Mary. They find her footprints in the sand and they end abruptly. Back in Kansas, her car is pulled from the river. Mary’s body is in the front seat alongside the other two women.

Mary Henry and two other young women are forced off a country bridge during a drag race and plunge into the water below. While searchers look for the car, Mary emerges from the water and after being treated for injuries, returns to her job as an organist in a church. During practice, Mary has a vision of ghouls dancing in a large, deserted pavilion and begins playing a minor-key melody that frightens and offends the Pastor. Thinking she is possessed the Pastor fires her. As Mary drives to her new position in another town, she continues to have visions of dancing ghouls and sees one of the phantom figures, a strange, white-faced man, along the road or reflected in her car window. Although frightened, she believes these apparitions are signs of shock from which she will soon recover. When Mary tries to start a new life in a new town, the strange man periodically reappears and she finds herself drawn to the deserted pavilion. One day, when Mary is shopping, the white-faced man appears. A passing doctor, seeing that Mary is showing signs of hysteria, takes her to his office and listens to her strange story. One night while she practices on the church organ, the ghostly stranger again overtakes her. The Minister hears the strange music Mary feels compelled to play and dismisses her. John Linden, a fellow boarder whom she had earlier scorned, makes sexual advances in her room; she sees the phantom in the mirror and her screams frighten Linden away. The next day, Mary is drawn back to the pavilion. There, a dozen dancing souls reach out for her and she sees herself dancing with the white-faced man. Later, at the site of the bridge, accident, the submerged car is pulled out of the river with the bodies of all three women, including Mary’s, inside.

Slasher Movies: 3 From Hell - #horror

💎💎3 FROM HELL💎💎 – Crazed killers Baby Firefly, Captain Spaulding and Otis Driftwood unleash bloody mayhem after escaping from prison. 3 from Hell is a 2019 American horror film written, coproduced and directed by Rob Zombie. It is the third installment in the Firefly trilogy, which began with House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and stars Billy Moseley, Richard Brake, Zombie’s wife Sheri Moon Zombie and Sid Haig in his last feature film appearance before his death in September 2019. Ten years have passed since the events of The Devil’s Rejects (2005). The plot follows an incarcerated Otis Driftwood and Baby Firefly being freed by Otis’ half-brother, after barely surviving a police shootout a decade ago. Unlike the previous instalments, 3 from Hell was given a special three-night theatrical engagement through Fathom Events from September 16-18, 2019 and it received a mixed response from film critics. Since it grossed nearly $2 million, Fathom Events gave it a one-night release on October 14, before being released on home video the following day.

The film opens with several news reports covering the events of the prior film. Through the reports, it is revealed that Baby, Otis and Captain Spaulding miraculously survived their shootout with the police and that they will be tried for their crimes. The trial is widely covered nationwide and becomes a cause celebre, resulting in the organization of protests that insist the trio’s innocence. Numerous fanatics also adopt the chant “Free the Three”, claiming that their crimes were committed as a means to fight against the system. Despite this, all three are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. In addition to the final verdict, Captain Spaulding is executed via lethal injection. Otis’ half-brother, Winslow Foxworth “Foxy” Coltrane, shows up to help Otis escape from prison while he is outside doing work on a chain gang. In the process, Otis kills Rondo, who was also on the chain gang after having been arrested some time after the end of the previous film and been sent to the same prison but did not recognize Otis. Meanwhile, Baby unsuccessfully seeks parole, as her mental state has further deteriorated since her incarceration. Once free, Otis and Foxy begin planning to free Baby from prison. To accomplish this, they kidnap the family and friends of the prison’s Warden, Virgil Dallas Harper. Otis and Foxy demand that Harper help Baby sneak out of prison or they will murder everyone they hold hostage. Harper follows their commands and sneaks Baby out of prison by disguising her as a guard. However, once Baby is freed, Otis and Foxy decide to eliminate the loose ends and kill all the hostages, as well as Harper. Now united, the three are undecided as to what to do next but eventually decide to flee to Mexico, a decision that is made more pressing due to Baby’s growing instability.

Otis, Baby and Foxy manage to successfully cross the border and flee to a small town in Mexico that is celebrating the Day of the Dead and hole up in the town’s lone hotel. They briefly worry about being recognized but dismiss these concerns, unaware that the hotel’s owner has in fact recognized them and has alerted Rondo’s son, Aquarius, to their location. The owner keeps them occupied with both the celebration and local prostitutes, while Aquarius heads out to the location with several henchmen in tow. The following morning, Baby bonds with a local worker, Sebastian, who notices Aquarius’s arrival. He warns Baby of the danger before running to warn Otis, just as Aquarius’s men break into the whorehouse. Otis and Sebastian hold off the attackers until Foxy arrives and rescues them both. Otis separates from them, managing to successfully find the hotel owner and kill him. During this time, Baby manages to kill several of Aquarius’s men using a bow and arrow set she took from Harper’s house. Eventually, Foxy and Baby are outmatched by Aquarius and taken prisoner. During this, Aquarius tells Sebastian he’s not worth the bullet and leaves him for dead. Aquarius and his remaining goons use Baby and Foxy to draw Otis out into the open.

Otis appears and squares off against one of Aquarius’s men in a knife fight, while Sebastian sneaks up and silently frees both Foxy and Baby. This enrages Aquarius, distracting his man in the knife fight and allowing Otis to gain the upper hand. He, Baby and Foxy manage to overpower Aquarius, however, Sebastian is shot and killed in the process. The film ends with the trio immolating Aquarius before walking off into the Mexican town.

💎💎100 ACRES OF HELL💎💎 – When an ex pro wrestler Buck Sevens travels to an abandoned wildlife preserve with his friends for “Bro’s Weekend” they become the targets of a deadly manhunt and Buck must find the fighter in himself before it’s too late. After suffering a career ending injury and family tragedy Wrestling Champ Buck Severs travels to an abandoned wildlife preserve with his friends for “Bro’s Weekend.” They become the targets of a deadly manhunt and Buck must find the warrior in himself to fight the psycho inbred mutant that stalks through the preserve. Former wrestling champion Buck Sever endures a family tragedy and injury that ends his career. When his pals invite him to an abandoned game preserve to forget about his problems, they soon run into a legendary backwoods madman known as Jeb Tucker.

💎💎122💎💎 – A couple faces a catastrophe inside what appears to be a hospital and attempts to escape and run for their lives. On a bloody night in a place we are supposed to feel safe, a young man and his beloved are struggling not to reach the hospital, but to run away from it. They are trying to survive the night.

💎💎 13 DAYS OF THE BEAST💎💎 – Let us delve into the life of a frightened man. Meet Travis Tarplin, a young man without a path in his dull, predictable life. That is, until he finds a mysterious suitcase on his doorstep. His life begins to take a bizarre turn as he is plagued by a mysterious force inside the case, bringing out the inner evils that only dark side of man is capable of. Torture. Murder. Mayhem. Experience what Mr. Tarplin experienced as we take you on this journey into the strange and terrifying.

💎💎30 DAYS TO DIE💎💎 – When a masked serial killer terrorizes an all-girls rehabilitation camp, the troubled teens must return to their bad-girl ways in the hopes of escaping the camp-turned-torture-chamber. Madison arrives at the Crystal Lake Retreat, a new institution for troubled young women. She thinks her problems are going to be over, until she and several other girls become locked inside with a serial killer known only as “The President.” When a masked serial killer begins to terrorize an all-girls rehabilitation camp, the troubled teens are forced into a hellish nightmare from which they cannot wake. As the killer brutalizes them for his own sadistic pleasure they must return to their bad-girl ways in the hopes of escaping the camp-turned-torture-chamber. Seven went in… but how many will come out? At the beginning of the film, a Sheriff violently gains access to the house of 17-year-old Sheryl and cruelly mutilates and kills her in a mask. Due to her aggressiveness, the teenage girl Madison has to go to the Crystal Lake educational institution by court order. On the way, the two guards stop at a fast food restaurant, causing Madison to try to escape. However, the guards knock them down and handcuff them. At the camp she is bullied by her fellow inmates, who vomit on her and rape her in the shower. The camp leader Dr. Amelia Wellington does not want to know anything about it. The guards see the young women as fresh meat with which they can become sexually active. When a guard enters Madison’s room at night to sleep with her, she can escape. On the run, the Sheriff gunned her down at the beginning of the film. The masked Sheriff now drives to the institution and brutally kills all inmates. Finally, Amelia faces him, thanks the serial killer, undresses and says that she is now ready. He takes off his mask. Madison reveals herself and she then shoots Amelia. Madison was only shot by the actual serial killer she overpowered him and assumed his identity to take revenge.

💎💎#HORROR💎💎 – Six preadolescent girls face a night of terror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity. #HORROR is a film about the lives of six young girls, Sam, Georgie, Sofia, Francesca, Cat and Eva played by our ensemble of emerging actresses. Their world is one of money, success, leisure and decadence. This is a film about the HORROR of cyberbullying. This film is an integral insight on the pressure that the girls take on as they grow in a world that is increasingly dependent on the promotion and attention that social media platforms provide yet prevent bullying. As well as the roles that parents must play regarding controlling their child’s use of the Internet and bullying plays such a terrifying role in society. These young girls are telling this story inside a glass mansion, filled with millions of dollars of artwork, as if they were living in a contemporary art museum. You’ve got followers… Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Inspired by a shocking true story, this film follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real. Chloe Sevigny leads an ensemble cast that includes Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning and Timothy Hutton in Tara Subkoff’s directorial debut. In a later interview with Elle, Subkoff stated that she was inspired to write the film after a discussion she’d had with one of her friends’ daughters, who had been cyberbullied. “[The idea] started because I asked my friend’s daughter, “What is horror, to you?” This girl was cyberbullied very badly… Now, I was bullied badly as a kid, but I could always change schools. I could always go home. Now you can’t… when bullying follows you home and there’s no escape and no end, to me, that’s horror. And to so many girls, that’s just life.

#HORROR (pronounced “hashtag horror”) is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Tara Subkoff and starring Chloe Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning and Balthazar Getty. The plot follows a group of wealthy 7^th grade girls who face a night of terror together after a social network game spirals out of control. The film premiered on November 18, 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art and was released in a limited release and through video on demand on November 20, 2015 by IFC Midnight. The film opens with Harry Cox (Balthazar Getty) having sex in a car with his mistress, Lisa (Lydia Hearst). After Lisa exits the car, his wife Alex (Chloe Sevigny) calls him and chastises him on the phone. After he hangs up, his throat is slashed and Lisa is also murdered. Twelve-year-old Sam is invited to a sleepover at classmate Sofia Cox’s mansion in Connecticut. Sam finds herself embarrassed by her lack of wealth amongst her rich and privileged classmates. Also, at the sleepover are Francesca, Ava and Georgie. Another girl, Cat White, is being driven to the house by her father Dr. White (Timothy Hutton); it is established that Cat is suffering psychological problems and has been in trouble for bullying the girls.

The girls engage in a pretend fashion show, incessantly posting photos of themselves on social media with their Smart Phones. Cat arrives and Alex allows the girls into her walk-in safe where numerous pieces of jewelry and clothing are stored. She then leaves to go into town for a Twelve-Step meeting. As the night goes on, the girls, each consumed by their cell phones, begin to fight with one another. Cat instigates a confrontation and taunts Georgie about her weight and Sofia forces her to leave. Cat storms into the woods, where she attempts to call her father to pick her up. She begins tagging Georgia in a stream of cruel photos on Facebook; the girls collectively decide to lock their cell phones in the safe to avoid Cat’s cyberbullying and Sofia throws the keys to the safe in the house’s swimming pool.

After Dr. White receives a frantic voicemail from Cat, he returns to the house and interrogates the girls about his daughter’s whereabouts. He tells the girls he is going to press charges. Sam goes to search for Cat in the woods and finds Sofia’s father’s car parked with blood across the windshield. She returns to the house panicked, but the girls don’t believe her. Georgie and Francesca begin to taunt Sofia about her mother’s alleged affair with Dr. White and she leaves. In the woods, Sofia stumbles upon her father’s car and finds his corpse inside. She calls her mother; Alex answers, believing it to be her husband and angrily yells into the phone about his cheating and hangs up. Sofia takes a revolver from the car and flees. At the house, Sam stumbles upon Ava’s dead body and is attacked by a masked assailant. She goes to retrieve the safe key from the pool to get the girls’ cell phones back. Georgie has her throat slashed. Francesca is also stabbed to death. Both of their deaths are streamed on the Internet and photos of their bodies posted online. Sam retrieves the key and opens the safe but is attacked again and locks herself inside. On her phone, she finds photos and videos of her friends’ murders posted on a social media game by Cat. Dr. White returns to the house and finds Georgie’s body. Sam tells him that Cat has killed Ava and Georgie. Cat emerges and unmasks herself. Believing that Dr. White murdered her father, Sofia shoots him to death. Witnessing this, Cat flees; Sofia then learns that Cat is the murderer. Sam leaves the house to get help. She encounters Cat on the road, wearing the mask. Alex arrives and witnesses Cat shoot herself in the mouth, killing herself. The film ends with a montage of photos of the murders, followed by a video uploaded by Cat, in which she professes her revenge against the girls and says that she will “be remembered forever.” 

Stalker Movies: The Phantom of the Opera, Split

💎💎THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA💎💎 – A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House. Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night, but the soprano doesn’t want her show stolen, so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protégé lead roles. Meanwhile, his pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Our story begins with Opera Populaire’s Manager, Lefevre, leaving. His successors, Andre and Firmin, take over the opera and bring with them their new patron, Le Vicomte Raoul de Chagny. To celebrate their new Managers, the opera throws a gala, at which the leading diva refuses to perform, due to the mysterious “Opera Ghost” who seems determined to have the screeching diva leave. Without a diva, Andre and Firmin are strong-minded to find a new leading lady, so they invoke the talents of a young, chorus-singer named Christine Daae, who has been taking lessons from a mysterious tutor. Raoul, Christine’s old childhood sweetheart, who recognizes her at her triumphant gala performance, wants to bring Christine back into his life. But, suddenly, Christine’s mysterious tutor reveals himself to her… Now, will Christine ask everything of Raoul or listen to the Music of the Night? Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the Opera House and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love. The Phantom decides to kidnap her and imprison her with him in his lair. Raoul is now the only one who can stop him.

The story of a young chorus girl, Christine – a young talented singer, who with the right training, could become world famous. While rehearsing at the Opera Populaire, where weird and unexplainable things happen, she captures the attention and the heart of The Phantom, or as the Opera Populaire call him… The Opera Ghost. But he is no ghost – he is a disfigured musical genius who has hidden away for years to avoid the cruel stares of strangers. With the Phantom’s help, Christine becomes the venue’s leading lady, but tragedy awaits as the young soprano has fallen for the charms of handsome noble Viscount Raoul De Chagney, not realizing her Angel of Music is deeply in love with her. Insane with jealously and unable to see the object of his affection and ultimately is obsession, in the arms of another man, The Phantom kidnaps Christine- unaware of the lengths Raoul is prepared to go to get her back. An architect and designer, a composer and magician. He’s a genius who must hide his facial disfigurement behind a mask and in the catacombs beneath Paris’s Opera Populaire, known only as the Phantom of the Opera or Opera Ghost. His one companion is his young singing protégé, a soprano named Christine Daae who is drawn to and mystified but at the same time terrified of her Angel of Music whose rapturous voice sings songs in her head while she sleeps and whispers in her ear during day. Everyone at the Opera House is used to the Phantom’s deadly pranks when his demands are not met but when a canopy falls on top of her, nearly crushing her, the Opera’s leading diva: Carllota resigns. With no understudy, the Managers turn to Christine who at the time was no more than a chorus girl. The show casts her into immediate fame. But when Christine, whom the Phantom has fallen in love with, accepts a marriage proposal from her childhood sweetheart Viscount Raoul de Chagney, the Phantom’s heart is broken. His despair quickly turns to furious, jealous rage and is willing to do anything to win her, even if it means raising the stakes to the ultimate level in Christine’s choice between her love for Raoul and her strange attraction to the Phantom.

The movie starts with an auction being held in the Paris Opera House. The Opera has been shut down and they are auctioning off props to make some money. One of the items is a stuffed monkey dressed in Persian robes and playing the cymbals sitting on top of a music box. An older gentleman in a wheelchair buys the monkey and holds on to it tightly. The next item is a chandelier that was broken but has been repaired. When the chandelier is revealed, we are whisked back to 1870 (“Overture”) where we see the Opera House in full swing for its performance of Hannibal by Chalemau. Rehearsals are under way when the Opera Manager informs the cast and crew that he is leaving for Australia and that the Opera House is now under the command of Gilles Andre and Richard Firmin (Simon Callow and Cirian Hinds). When they resume rehearsal, a stage prop falls on the lead diva, Carlotta (Minnie Driver). After she storms out refusing to sing, Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson), the Ballet instructor, convinces the new owners to let Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum), one of the dancers, to take Carlotta’s part. After a stunning performance (“Think of Me”), Christine goes down to the small Chapel under the Opera House to pray for her father who died long ago. Meg (Jennifer Ellison) one of the Ballet dancers and Christine’s best friend comes to find her inquiring of her singing prowess (“Angel of Music”).

Later, Christine’s childhood friend, Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagney and Patron of the Opera House, comes to visit her in her dressing room. He had been in the audience and had recognized her. After inviting her to a party and leaving to prepare for the ride, Christine is locked in her room and hears singing. The Phantom (Gerard Butler) is mad at Raoul for taking credit in his work in training Christine to sing. He then lures Christine to a mirror where she sees him then follows him to his lair under the Opera House (“The Phantom of the Opera”). Once there the Phantom expresses his feelings for Christine and tries to convince her to stay with him (“Music of the Night”). Later she unmasks him and the Phantom is furious with her. Although he is raging and angry, he becomes vulnerable and begins crying. He wishes he didn’t have a loathsome gargoyle face (“I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It”). He then returns her to the surface. While Christine is gone, Andre and Firmin are upset because Christine has disappeared and they no longer have a lead to play in the Operas. After receiving a series of notes all signed O.G. (Opera Ghost) they find out that Christine has returned and they have been instructed by the Phantom to put Christine in the lead role of the upcoming Opera II Muto. They refuse and put Carlotta in the lead part after convincing her to return (“Prima Donna”) and give Christine a silent role, which infuriates the Phantom. He then disables Carlotta’s voice giving her the voice of a toad, which forces the Opera Managers to put Christine in the lead role. While Christine is getting ready, Joseph Buquet (Kevin McNally) finds the Phantom in the rafters and after trying to escape is caught and hung from the rafters on stage in full view of everyone. This frightens Christine and she turns to the roof with Raoul pursuing her where he comforts her telling her that loves her and will never leave her (“All I Ask of You”). The Phantom overhears and is now in a state of shock because Christine loves Raoul and not him. Three months later, we see that the Opera House is in full swing without any appearance from the Phantom since he disabled Carlotta’s voice. The Opera House is holding a Masquerade to celebrate (“Masquerade”). During the Masquerade the Phantom interrupts and presents the Managers with a new Opera he has written called Don Juan. He then gives them an ultimatum. Follow his instructions or bad things will happen. Christine visits the graveyard where her father is buried. (“Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again”). The Phantom is also there and tries to lure her to him, but Raoul arrives and fights off the Phantom in a sword battle. They then leave the Phantom there and he swears to get revenge.

The performance of Don Juan has finally come and everyone is nervous. Raoul, Andre and Firmin are positive the Phantom will make an appearance, so they set a trap. Christine is torn. She explains that she can’t be a part of the trap without the Phantom taking her back. The play starts and Christine comes on stage singing. Backstage, Piangi (Victor McGuire) is getting ready for his next scene when the Phantom kills him and takes his place on stage. Christine sings with the Phantom, expressing her love for him. Raoul, who is in the audience, sadly realizes that Christine loves the Phantom (“The Point of No Return”). The Phantom then sings passionately to Christine who takes his mask off, revealing to the audience the distortion of his face. He takes her once again down to his lair, causing the Opera theatre to catch on fire in the progress after bringing down the chandelier. (“Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer”). The Phantom gives Christine the ring that he took from her at the Masquerade ball and asks her to stay with him. Meanwhile, Raoul gets Madame Giry to take him to the Phantom’s lair. She leaves Raoul halfway through their journey and Raoul goes the rest of the way alone. After nearly drowning, he shows up in the Phantom’s lair to save Christine. The Phantom then gives Christine the difficult decision: She can either stay with the Phantom and Raoul (who has been tied up by the Phantom) goes free, or she refuses the Phantom and Raoul dies but Christine goes free. Christine decides to stay with the Phantom and tells him that he is not alone. She kisses him passionately. At this point the Phantom realizes that Christine truly loves him, but his horrible actions have ruined any chance they have together. In an act of selflessness, he frees both Christine and Raoul. Christine gives the ring back to the Phantom who sadly tells Christine that he loves her. Christine forces herself to leave with Raoul in the boat. She looks back at the Phantom sadly, knowing that she loves him. Heartbroken, the Phantom destroys the mirrors and escapes through a secret passage just before the mob shows up. Meg Giry finds only his mask.

The scene then switches back to 1919. The elderly gentleman now known to be Raoul leaves the monkey music box on Christine’s grave. He looks down and sees that the Phantom has left a rose tied with a black ribbon (his trademark) and the ring that he gave to Christine: The Phantom still loves her. Raoul sadly looks at it knowing that Christine truly loved the Phantom.

In 1919, a public auction is held to clear an abandoned Opera theatre’s vaults in Paris. Viscount Raoul de Chagny, bids against the elderly Madame Giry for a papier-mache music box shaped like a barrel organ with the figure of a cymbal-playing monkey attached to it. The auctioneer presents a shattered chandelier, relating it to “the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera.” As it is hoisted up to the roof, the story moves back to 1870. The theatre prepares for the performance of the grand opera, Hannibal, headed by soprano Carlotta Gludlicelli. Theatre Manager Monsieur Lefevre plans to retire, leaving the theatre to Richard Firmin and Gilles Andre. Carlotta refuses to perform after three years’ worth of torment by the theatre’s resident “Opera Ghost”, a mysterious figure said to live in the catacombs below. Facing the performance’s cancellation, Madame Giry, the Ballet instructor, suggests that dancer Christine Daae, stand in as the lead actress. Christine displays her singing talents and is a huge success on opening night. Christine tells Giry’s daughter, Meg, that she is being coached by a tutor she calls the “Angel of Music”. Christine reunites with Raoul, a new patron of the theatre and her childhood sweetheart, but he dismisses her secrets. That night, the masked Phantom of the Opera appears before Christine, spiriting her away to his underground lair. He confesses his love to Christine, but when she removes his mask out of curiosity, he reacts violently. She returns his mask to him and the Phantom returns her to the theatre unharmed but orders the Managers to make her the lead in II Muto. However, the Managers choose Carlotta instead. During the performance, the Phantom tampers with Carlotta’s throat spray, causing her to sing out of tune and Christine steps in. The Phantom encounters stagehand Joseph Buquet and hangs him above the stage. Christine and Raoul flee to the roof, where they declare their love for each other. The Phantom, eavesdropping, vows revenge.

Three months later, in 1871, at a New Year Masquerade ball, Christine and Raoul announce their engagement. The Phantom crashes the Ball and orders his own opera, Don Juan Triumphant, to be performed. Upon seeing Christine’s engagement ring, the Phantom steals it and flees, pursued by Raoul, but Giry stops him. Giry explains that when she was a teenager, she met the Phantom, a deformed young boy, billed as the “Devil’s Child” in a freak show and abused by the owner. When the Phantom rebelled and strangled the man to death, Giry helped him to evade the resulting mob and hid him within the Opera House. The next day, Christine visits her father’s tomb with the Phantom posing as his spirit to win her back, but Raoul intervenes. Raoul and the Managers plot to capture the Phantom during his opera. The Phantom murders Carlotta’s lover, Ubaldo Piangi and takes his place as the male lead to sing opposite Christine. During their passionate duet, Christine unmasks the Phantom, revealing his deformities to the horrified audience. He drags her to the catacombs, bringing down the chandelier, as a mob forms to hunt the Phantom down. Giry leads Raoul down to the catacombs to rescue Christine. The Phantom has Christine wear a wedding dress he made for her and proposes marriage. Christine admits that she does not fear the Phantom for his appearance but for his rage and willingness to kill. Raoul arrives, the Phantom threatening to kill him unless Christine weds him. Christine, pitying the Phantom, kisses him. Moved by her kindness, the Phantom allows the lovers to flee. Finding comfort in the music box, the Phantom weeps alone and Christine gives her ring to him in remembrance. He vanishes as the mob appears with Meg finding his discarded mask. Back in the present, Raoul visits Christine’s gravestone, placing the music box before it. Before leaving, he notices a freshly laid rose with Christine’s ring attached to it, implying that the Phantom is still alive and that he will always love her.

💎💎 SPLIT💎💎 – Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful 24^th. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all of the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him – as well as everyone around him – as the walls between his compartments shatter. Kevin Wendell Church, a man with 23 different personalities, abducts and keeps three teenage girls in his basement for unknown reasons. As Kevin’s therapist delves deeper into his mysterious disorder, the girls must find ways to escape before a new and sinister 24^th personality reveals itself. After a birthday party in a mall, teenagers Casey Cooke, Claire Benoit and Marcia are abducted by a man. Soon they learn that the man has DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) with several personalities. His psychiatrist Dr. Karen Fletcher is aware of his personalities but does not suspect that he is the kidnapper of the three girls. Casey tries to manipulate the weakest personalities to escape, but the stronger personalities fight back. Three girls, led by the wittiest Casey are abducted by a man with a multiple personality disorder. He has 23 personalities and the girls have to find the ones that will help set them free. Yet, things get a little scarier when a frightening 24^th persona, “The Beast”, is coming for them. In broad daylight, after an innocent birthday party at a mall, the unsuspecting Art class schoolmates – Casey, Claire and Marcia – fall prey to the creepy predator, Kevin Wendell Crumb, a shattered man suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. Not one, but twenty-three distinct and suppressed personalities reside inside Kevin; however, from the horde that plagues him, some identities are, inevitably, more sinister than others. Sooner or later, the elusive 24^th “Beast” persona will emerge in all its glory, as an amalgam of Kevin’s qualities and the highest form of human evolution. Nevertheless, is the feared monster within real, or is it a figment of Crumb’s morbidly demented imagination?

The film opens with a birthday party for Claire (Haley Lu Richardson). Her classmate Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) was invited out of pity, as Claire tells her father (Neal Huff) that Casey frequently gets into trouble with teachers and gets sent to detention. Casey calls for a ride home but is told the car broke down. She’s about to take the bus, but Claire’s dad insists that she go home with them. The girls leave along with another friend, Marcia (Jessica Sula). Claire’s dad is approached by an unseen person: Moments later, the person, a man named Kevin (James McAvoy), gets into the car. Claire thinks he just got in the wrong car by mistake, but Kevin puts on a face mask and sprays the girls with some kind of toxin that knocks them out. Casey slowly attempts to open the door to get out, but Kevin gets her too. Kevin brings the girls into a windowless room in an unknown location. He pulls Marcia out and takes her outside. After a brief moment, Marcia runs back into the room after she peed herself. She tells the others that Kevin wanted her to dance for him. Claire says they need to fight back together to get out. Casey is calm and says they need to find out what they are there for before they make any sort of move.

We see a flashback in which a 5-year-old Casey (here played by Izzie Leigh Coffey) is with her father (Sebastian Arcelus) and her Uncle John (Brad William Henke). They are both hunters and they teach Casey how to hunt. Uncle John talks about hunting a deer but being distracted by the buck. A therapist, Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley) is watching a news report on the three missing girls and how Claire’s father woke up to find the girls and his car gone. Karen then receives an email from someone named Barry, saying that they need to speak and it is urgent. Barry is really one of Kevin’s multiple personalities. This “alter” is a sketch artist with a heavy Boston accent. He meets with Karen regularly in this persona. The girls continue to try to find a way out. They look through a crack in the door and sees what appears to be a woman talking to their captor. Claire and Marcia call to the woman for help. She approaches the door, but it just Kevin wearing a skirt and high heels. This alter is known as Patricia, a polite British woman. Patricia assures the girls that their captor knows why they are there and that he is not allowed to touch them.

Karen is in a conference via Skype in which she discusses her patients, most of whom are suffering from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), including Kevin. Karen talks about how some identities have capabilities that the other identities may not possess, as well as the way she can sense who has come to “the light” (which alter is in control). She adds that people with DID can change their body chemistry with their thoughts. The girls meet another identity, Hedwig, who has the mannerisms of a 9-year-old boy. He claims that Patricia and Dennis (the persona that captured the girls) are mad at him and that he is in trouble. Casey talks to Hedwig in an attempt to get a way out of there by telling him that Patricia and Dennis are still mad at him and that he’s in trouble. Hedwig leaves and the girls start looking for a way out through the walls. Claire finds a hollow spot in the ceiling and starts breaking off the plaster. Hedwig starts to come back, but Casey and Marcia hold the door back as Claire tries climbing out. Kevin reverts to Dennis as Claire starts crawling through the vents. She finds and exit and starts running for help. She hides in a locker but her trembling breath is so loud that Dennis finds her. He orders Claire to take off her shirt because it’s dirty. He then locks her in a room by herself.

In another session with Karen, Kevin returns as Barry. Karen doesn’t believe she is really talking to Barry. She has notices certain characteristics that Barry is displaying normally seen with other alters like Dennis, such as OCD. Barry insists that he’s gotten better. Karen mentions that Kevin has 23 distinct identities. Kevin then becomes Dennis as Karen mentions a 24^th identity, “The Beast”, whom Dennis says is indeed real. Patricia brings Casey and Marcia out for some food. Marcia is forced to remove her skirt and Casey takes off her flannel shirt. Patricia brings the girls into a dining room and starts to make another sandwich. He becomes upset when he accidentally cuts the sandwich crookedly, so he starts making another one. Marcia seizes the opportunity to take a chair and strike Patricia in the back with it. She runs out for help and Casey tries to run too, but Patricia catches her and orders her to go to her room. Marcia is eventually caught as well and is locked in a room by herself. Karen and her assistant Jai (M. Night Shyamalan) review security footage of outside the building. A trash bin is knocked over with garbage everywhere. One couple walks around it, but Dennis walks right through it, which is something Karen believes is deliberate.

Hedwig talks to Casey playfully. He asks to kiss her and she allows him to, though it is awkward. Hedwig mentions his music collection and how he likes to dance to some Kanye West. Casey asks him to show her his room and his music collection. He takes her there and she mentions a window that’s next to his music. It’s just a drawing of a closed window over another drawing of an open window. Hedwig starts to realize that Casey is trying to escape. She becomes frightened and attempts to placate him. He pulls out a Walkie-Talkie, which Casey uses to start calling for help while fighting off Hedwig. Hedwig subdues Casey and takes the Walkie back. We see another flashback with Little Casey on a hunting trip. With her dad not around, Uncle John starts wanting to “play”. He strips down to his underwear and tells Casey to take off her clothes because “animals don’t wear clothes.” Later, John emerges from behind a rock and sees Casey holding a rifle at him. He manages to take it back from her so that she doesn’t pull the trigger. Claire and Marcia attempt to escape using a wire to unlock the door from the outside of Marcia’s room. They are unsuccessful.

Karen goes to Kevin’s home and is greeted by Dennis. He invites her inside and they continue to discuss “The Beast”, as well as “The Horde”, which is the name given for the major identities that control Kevin (Dennis, Barry, Patricia and Hedwig). Karen then becomes genuinely terrified. She goes outside and finds Claire trapped in her room, but Dennis pulls Karen away before she can help. Casey finds a laptop with videos on every one of Kevin’s identities. She sees one called Orwell, who discusses philosophy and another named Jade, who is Diabetic. Dennis goes to an abandoned train car and starts to transform into “The Beast”. He is significantly taller and stronger than any other identity. He returns home and finds Karen writing something on a piece of paper. She grabs a small knife as he crawls on the wall and grabs her. Karen starts trying to stab him, but the knife breaks. “The Beast” then squeezes Karen until her spine snaps and she dies.

Casey gets out and tries to find the other girls. She finds Marcia dead with her stomach having been ripped open. Casey then finds Claire alive, but she gets dragged as “The Beast” starts attacking her. Casey finds the paper that Karen wrote on. It says, “Say his name – Kevin Wendell Crumb”. “The Beast” finds Casey, but she repeatedly shouts his name, making him revert to normal. We briefly see a flashback of Kevin’s mother yelling at him as a child by saying his full name and telling him he’s made a mess. Present Day: Kevin has no memory of what he’s done as Casey tells him he killed Karen, Claire and Marcia. He tells Casey there’s a gun in one of the cabinets and that she must kill him. The major identity starts to take control all at once. Casey runs as “The Beast” starts to come back. Casey finds some shells and loads them into the gun. “The Beast” starts crawling up on the ceiling and starts taking out the lights, leaving Casey with no sight to shoot at him. “The Beast” attacks Casey, ripping her shirt and biting her leg, but she gets away. She closes herself in a cage and loads the gun with more shells. “The Beast” starts bending the bars to get in, but he then notices multiple scars on Casey’s body. Another flashback shows Little Casey after her father’s funeral and John telling her he will be her new guardian. “The Beast” then proclaims that Casey is pure-hearted and he leaves her alone. Not long after, a man goes downstairs and finds Casey. He carries her outside to safety. She looks around on the outside and sees many animals in an enclosure. Medics arrive and take Casey in.

Kevin is somewhere by himself with “The Horde” controlling him completely now. Patricia says that “The Beast” will protect them now. The last scene is in a diner where people are watching a news report on what Kevin did. The anchorwoman mentions how “The Beast” identity displays characteristics of the animals in the enclosure where he worked. A patron mentions that the case is similar to a man in a wheelchair from 15 years earlier. When she can’t remember his name, someone next to her replies, “Mr. Glass.” We see that it is David Dunn (Bruce Willis; his character from “Unbreakable” in a surprise cameo). Fade out.

Split is a 2016 American psychological horror thriller film and the second installment in the Unbreakable trilogy written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy and Betty Buckley. The film follows a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. Principal photography began on November 11, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 26, 2016 and was released in the United States on January 20, 2017, by Universal Studios. The film received generally positive reviews with McAvoy’s performance earning high praise and some critics labeling it a welcome return to from Shyamalan, although some criticized the film for its perceived stigmatization of mental illness. The film grossed $278 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million. The film is a standalone sequel to the 2000 film Unbreakable, which was also written, produced and directed by Shyamalan. The film was not marketed as a sequel, instead saving the revelation for a scene featuring Bruce Willis reprising his Unbreakable role in an uncredited cameo. Split is noted as the first solo supervillain origin movie. It is also Shyamalan’s first sequel. The final part of the trilogy, titled Glass, was released in January 2019, combining the casts and characters of both previous films.

Casey Cooke is a withdrawn teenager, having been molested as a child by her Uncle and legal guardian, John. After being invited to a birthday party, she accepts a ride home from her classmate, Claire’s father, who also takes Claire’s friend Marcia. As the girls wait in the car, Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), knocks Claire’s father unconscious before kidnapping them. Kevin is in therapy with Dr. Karen Fletcher, who has 23 identified 23 distinct personalities formed after Kevin was abused as a child by his mother after his father left on a train one day and never returned. The dominant personality, “Barry,” controls when and which of the others can manifest. “Barry” has not allowed “Dennis” or “Patricia” to have control due to their undesirable traits and their belief in “The Beast”, a 24^th personality who plans to rid the world of the “impure”. Fletcher recognizes in their sessions that “Dennis” has recently displaced “Barry” as the dominant personality.

“Dennis” imprisons the girls in an underground cell. By taking advantage of a childlike personality called “Hedwig”, the girls attempt to escape and Casey manages to find a Walkie Talkie but her attempts to get help are dismissed as a prank. The girls are separated from each other by “Dennis” and “Patricia”. Fletcher visits Kevin’s quarters, where he reveals that he has met “The Beast”. Fletcher realizes that there is an internal conflict between the personalities and becomes suspicious. She feigns going to the bathroom and finds Claire who is locked in a storage room. “Dennis” appears ad sedates Fletcher. “Dennis” goes to a train station, where he boards an empty train car, which allows “The Beast” to take over, who has enhanced physical abilities. Fletcher writes Kevin’s full name on a piece of paper before “The Beast” arrives and kills her. Casey escapes from her cell, only to find that “The Beast” has already killed and eaten some of Marcia and sees him attack Claire too. Casey finds Fletcher’s body and the piece of paper. “The Beast” approaches her, but she calls out Kevin’s full name, bringing Kevin forth. Upon learning of the situation and realizing that he has not been in control for two years, a horrified Kevin begs Casey to kill him with a shotgun he has hidden.

This prompts all 24 personalities to fight for control and “Hedwig” is the victor. Casey is told that “Kevin” has been made to sleep far away and he will not awaken now even if his name is called. “Hedwig” gives control over to “Dennis” and “Patricia” and they once again let “The Beast” take hold. Casey retrieves the gun and ammunition before escaping into a tunnel, where she shoots “The Beast” twice who only sustains minor wounds. She locks herself in a caged area whose bars “The Beast” begins to pull apart. He sees faded self-harm scars across her body, considers Casey to be “pure” and more evolved due to her being “broken” and spares her. Casey is rescued and learns that she was being held at the Philadelphia Zoo, where Kevin had been an employee. When Casey is asked by the police if she is ready to return home with her Uncle, she hesitates to answer. In another hideout, “Dennis”, “Patricia” and “Hedwig” discuss the power of “The Beast” and their plans to change the world. In a diner, several patrons watch a news report of Kevin’s crimes, with the correspondent mentioning that his numerous personalities have earned him the nickname “The Horde”. A waitress notes the similarity to a criminal in a wheelchair who was incarcerated fifteen years earlier and who also received a nickname. As she tries to remember the nickname, the man sitting next to her, David Dunn, says it was “Mr. Glass.”