The
narrative of our trailer begins with a boyfriend, Ben (Sam Lee) going to visit
his girlfriend, Jess (Mia Zandi-Amarloei). He is fiercely jealous of her, and
suspicious that she may have been cheating with another man… even though she hasn't. He confronts her demanding an
explanation and she asks that they break up from each other. This makes the
boyfriend fly into a rage and she begins to strangle her. Ask she whispers: “I
haven’t cheated on you… I haven’t
cheated on you…” he strangles her until she collapses to the ground. She falls
to the ground, near death, and whispers “I love you… I still love you.” Shocked
by his moment of rage, the boyfriend leans over and shakes her. She’s now dead.
He kisses her on the forehead, tears running down his face. “I’m sorry… I’m so
sorry…” He panics and rushes to the garden. Looking around frantically, he sees
a shovel resting against the shed. He begins to dig the hole that he will bury
her in…
He
sobs by the graveside, but manages to get away with the crime. However, Ben is
haunted by the memory of his girlfriend. He suffers nightmares during the
following weeks, waking with the memory of her imprinted in his mind. To try to
find some solace, he visits a tarot card reader, Maya (Seraphina Woodrow). The
first card Maya turns over is “death” and he shudders, feeling that he may have
been discovered. The next card she turns over is the card of “justice,”
suggesting that his crime will soon be exposed. The last card she turns over is
“the fool”. Without saying anything Maya looks up at him and stares at him
intently in the eyes before he knocks his chair back and storms out of the
store. Ben's guilt overwhelms him.
He
goes home and starts to drink. He gingerly takes the first shot, but continues
to drink with increasing speed. By the twelfth shot he staggers around and
falls onto the bed, and suddenly his girlfriend is lying next to him. She whispers “I still love you.” He blinks
his eyes and she disappears. He blacks out.
In
the morning he calls his friend, Michael (David Cossey), and angrily tries
to explain to him that ‘someone’ was there with him in his bed last night.
Michael dismisses Ben's cry for help, making his despair into a joke, “Mate you’re
crazy” and he hangs up.
Ben
goes to the shower. We hear the sound of the shower and the bathroom mirror starts
to steam up. In the mirror, the words “I used to love you” are animated into
it. She appears behind him again and
places her hands on his face as though to go and kiss him, but slowly digs her
nails into his face, drawing downwards leaving bloody scratches. He looks at
her, shocked, crying. The ghost of the girlfriend disappears as he turns around
frantically looking for her. Suddenly she appears again right in front of his
face, “But I hate you now.” She screams. Hysterically,
he runs around the house, entering every room. However with every room he
enters she’s standing there in front of him each time getting closer to him.
Finally when leaving a room he sees her at the end of the hall and stops. They
share eye contact as she slowly moves towards him. Then, with her point of view
shot we see her hands shoot for his neck. This is where the trailer will end,
leaving the audience wanting to see more and wondering whether she killed him,
whether the fight goes on for longer, or just questioning in general what
happens next.
In
the actual film, the fight between Jess and Ben will be prolonged, and she will
haunt him leading him into a strong alcohol addiction and initially will drive
him to insane by haunting him nightly and turns his life into a living nightmare. The film ends with Ben kneeling above Jess's graveside where he shoots himself in the head. We hear the gunshot. The image cuts as the gunshot happens to black and white. We see Ben's face as the life drains out of him, but suddenly he opens his eyes. We know don't know whether he is dead or not as we questionably enter a 'spiritual world' of 'life after death' He looks around unaware as to what is happening. Ben looks at his hands, there is no blood on him and no gun to be seen. He becomes increasingly confused. He looks down at the grave in front of him where lots of hands, of the bodies of all of his ex-girlfriends that he has killed before, clutch hold of him and begin to drag him down into the soil.
This leaves our film will a generic horror convention of an open ending as
anything can happen from here. We leave the audience wondering whether Ben is alive or dead and questioning what is going to happen to him now.
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