horror movie plot

Horror movie plot

The Meyer family, consisting of the father Jeff, the mother Susan and the daughter Marion are celebrating moving into there new home. However, they are unaware of what is lurking the bushes spying on them. During the evening Marion begins to notice things happening around the house, With things going missing from the garden and the door being left open but decides to ignore the goings on. When Marion pulls the door shut we get our first glimpse of the villain through the window in the door. Shortly after this, the power is cut from the house and Jeff notices that the lights are still on next door so goes outside to the garage to check the fuse box. Once out there he finds that the fuse box has been destroyed and having heard a noise behind him, he turns quickly to reveal the masked assailant, who strikes him with an axe in the chest, killing Jeff instantly. Becoming increasingly worried as to her fathers whereabouts, Marion decides to go outside and investigate. What she discovers brings her to her knees in tears. She finds it in herself to get up and run into the house were she discovers the phone line has been disconnected. She Shouts up to her mother but gets no reply. She ventures upstairs only to find the killer running towards her. She manages to avoid his attempts at catching her and dashes out of the door to try and alert the neighbours. When she is halfway across the garden, the killer grabs her and pulls her to the floor. However, during the struggle, Marion manages to stab him with his own knife. Whilst waiting for the police, who have now been alerted by the neighbours, Marion begins to question the killer herself. Realising he is dying, the scene goes into a flashback of 20 years earlier, were we discover the identity of the killer. We see him as a 8 year old called Michael, who bears witness to a robbery gone wrong and hides away as he views his parents tortured and slaughtered in front of his very eyes. As the camera pulls focus, we see that the couple are a laughing and smiling Jeff and Susan Meyer. As the scene cuts back to the present day a visibly shocked Marion tries to take in this new information. She finds that the police have now arrived and are checking the house with the paramedics putting the now dead Michael in body bag. In the background, a now hysterical Susan is brought out of the house. Marion cannot cope with the information she has just obtained and spills everything to police and Susan’s mood changes from sad to angry and as she is bundled into the police car she vows never to talk to her daughter again. The movie ends with Marion in the arms of her neighbour, trying to come to terms with everything that has happened.