Darkness
falls on a dance studio. Five friends, dancers: Buffy, Kirby, Tatum Nina and
her boyfriend Thomas, come to the end of their rehearsal and prepare to leave.
One of them decides to stay behind to perfect her pirouettes. As the friends
leave, and the door begins to close, Buffy will soon realize that she’s not
alone. Whilst practising her routine, she looks into the mirror and screams as
she thinks she has seen someone. In a state of frenzy, she turns around to find
no one behind her. Paranoid and frightened, she believes the hallucination was
due to lack of sleep and stress. She is unsettled therefore decides to leave.
She picks up her belongings and makes her way to the exit when the lights go
out. Overpowered by darkness, she calls out to see who’s there. The lights
begin to flicker and she sees a masked figure running towards her.
Oblivious to
the brutal murder of her friend, Kirby is on her way home and takes her usual
route through the park. Engrossed in reading, she is unaware of the presence of
the masked villain coming towards her. She bumps into him and briefly
apologizes but dismisses it and continues reading. Recalling the brief
encounter, she stops to think about the strange appearance of the person. She
turns around to reassure herself that she was worrying over nothing and finds
the masked person standing facing her ready to attack with a deadly knife. In a
state of fear, she screams and begins to run. Unable to hear his footsteps
behind her, she turns around hoping that she has lost him and falls in the
process. Vulnerable and frightened, she looks up and sees him standing over
her.
The next
day, Nina is flicking through the channels when she comes across the breaking
news of the death of her friends. The reporter emphasizes the similarity of the
previous year’s events on the same date where the victim was from the same
college. Whilst watching the LIVE broadcast, she notices a masked figure
lingering in the far distance. She pauses the screen and edges closer to
examine further. Certain that the masked person is truly there she gasps and
has a flashback of her involvement in last year’s accidental killing. Fearing
Tatum’s safety, she calls to inform her, Tatum doesn’t pick up as she’s having
a bath, so she leaves a panicked voicemail ordering her to keep safe. The
masked villain answers the call and say’s “It’s all your fault” and then hangs
up. Upstairs, an oblivious Tatum is having a bath, unaware that the masked
villain has entered her bathroom. The cheerful song juxtaposes the brutal intentions
of the villain. While lying there with
her eyes closed, the villain is shown entering the bathroom. Whilst washing her hair, she dips her head
under the water and then rubs her eyes to clear her vision. At opening her
eyes, she sees the masked villain standing over her; who blocks her scream by
drowning her.
Nina arrives
at Tatum’s house to see that the front door is open. She rushes yelling Tatum’s
name through the house, finally finding Tatum’s body in the bathroom. Crying
and terrified, she collapses onto the ground and begins wailing in utter
disbelief. She calls Thomas and explains what she has seen and he replies he
will be there shortly; suddenly she hears the front door slam shut. Is Nina
destined to have the same fate as her friends?
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