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A dark psychological thriller in true “Hitchcock-style’ about a young model whose increasing paranoia reveals that the people she fears most become her allies whilst those she trusts prove to be far
from friendly.

Rising young fashion model Chloe Keene is in demand and just getting used to the unwanted attention that this kind of exposure brings including mysterious crank telephone calls.

 

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Her long suffering ex-boyfriend, Toby, is waiting to welcome her home after a trip to New York, but Chloe, seeking more adventure, agrees to go with new ‘amour’, commercials director Ned Dickson, to the country for a romantic weekend staying with some of his old friends.

Ned drives Chloe through the night to a large, remote, shabby, country house where they are met by Gordon, the awkward, creepy, younger brother of Stan the charismatic and controlling owner of the house.

Chloe finds herself the outsider in a reunion of Stan’s band, which had been successful in the mid eighties.

 

Stan's long time partner Rachel although still beautiful, seems distant. She has a daughter with Stan, Teresa who is deaf
and dumb.

Dinner is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Ned's wife, Eve who Ned conveniently had forgotten to mention. Feeling upset and betrayed Chloe rushes outside and is followed by Stan who tries to reassure her. Meanwhile Ned leaves to go back to London with his wife. Forced to stay, feeling humiliated and wary of her mysterious hosts, Chloe is stranded in the house with a bunch
of strangers.

 
two men fighting outside house
 
beautiful woman
 
woman in shirt
 

Vaguely aware that she has been woken in the night by various members of the household things take a turn for the worse when Chloe suspects the following morning she has been drugged and sexually molested. Her worst fears are confirmed when she discovers one of Gordon’s videotapes showing previous assaults on other girls.

Panicking her efforts to escape are foiled repeatedly by the rest of the household and it is only when she finds an unlikely ally in Teresa and the mysterious crank caller Clive that it appears she might find a way out of the increasingly horrific nightmare.

 

Running Time
105 minutes

Starring
Jessica Alba
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Iain Glen
Ewen Bremner
Kevin Whately
Oliver Milburn

Written and directed by
Johm Duigan

A Paul Trijbits/Gareth Neame production in association with Sky Pictures, Portman and the Isle of Man Film Commission.