Featured Film Synopsis

' A Night to Remember'

The central antagonist 'Rose Holloway' wakes up in the boot of a car, tied, handcuffed and badly cut and bruised. She successfully kicks the boot of the car open and falls on to the floor of what seems to be a car garage. She manages to untie her feet, but cannot get out of the handcuffs. Rose searches round the garage for a way out and spots the garage door, she frantically pushed the release button, but nothing happens. Realizing that it won’t be that easy to escape, Rose starts looking for another way out. She hears the echo of footsteps and takes off her high heel shoe, ready to attack, before ducking behind a vehicle. Peeking round the car to try and catch a glimpse of something, she spots a man walking into the opposite room. With the unknown character out of sight she creeps to the door where he was walking into, suddenly she is grabbed from behind and dragged into another room. Rose struggles with the man, hitting him where she can. The man gets her to the opening of the door; Rose takes her chance and hits the man over the head with her stiletto. Realizing what she has done, she runs through the door, past the corridor, and see's an open door to the outside world. She makes a run for the door, and just as she reaches the exit another unknown male character grabs her by the shoulder and pushes a gun in to the side of her head.

As the gun is pressed against Rose's head, she has a flash back of before her abduction. The audience see's Rose walking out of her house towards the bus stop, on her way she stops and exchanges pleasantries with an elderly neighbor called 'Colin'. The audience then follows Colin back into his house, and into the first door he reaches. The room is bombarded with pictures, drawing, and paintings of rose, also there is a delicate golden cup which contains old cigarette butts with lipstick round the edge. It is obvious to the audience that these were previously smoked by Rose. Colin picks up a used cigarette butts and licks the lipstick stuck to it, before peering out the window at Rose again.

Several shots are shown on Colin recording dates and times of Rose's arrivals and departures from her house; this is evident that Colin had some sort of obsession with the young girl.

Later in the day, the camera shows Rose arriving home from work, and Colin is waiting at his window for her. As she goes to the door of her house, she searches through her bag before realizing that she has left her keys in doors. She bangs on her front door for several minutes, and catches on that there is no one home. She sits down on her front step, looking frustrated. Across the road, Colin pretends to let his many cats outside and starts to walk over to Rose, asking her if she'd like to wait inside his house until her parents arrive home. Rose accepted Colin’s' offer.

A creepy atmosphere is set as they walk into Colin’s' house. The door of Rose's shrine has been left open, Colin see's this and slams it shut immediately, leaving Rose curious and anxious to know what is inside the room. Colin asks her if she'd like a cup of tea before she has a chance to question him. He leads her into his living room. Whilst the kettle boils, he dims the lights in the room and plays a romantic song on his stereo. He collects the drinks and sits uncomfortably close to Rose for her liking. They make conversation between themselves and the topic of Rose being single arises, once she states that she has not got a boyfriend, Colin takes the opportunity to start sweet talking her. He places his hand on her knee and his tells her that she is a beautiful young girl; he then starts to play with her hair. At this point Rose see's her parents arrive home, she uses this as an excuse to get leave immediately. Colin watches Rose walk home from his doorstep and goes back into his house. Furious at his failed attempt to seduce the young girl Colin kicks one of his cats, and smashes one of her pictures. To show his unstable state of mind he picks up some broken glass and squeezes it in the palm of his hand, blood trickles from his hand.

A cross cutting technique is used to show Rose going about her daily life, going to work, college, jogging ect. In contradiction to this, Colin is shown building up to his plan for Rose, purchases date rape drugs, cleaning his weapons, ect.

A week later, Rose and her friends are shown walking to her house discussing their plans to go to a local nightclub that evening. Colin witnesses the girls discussion and rings somebody on his mobile telephone, 'we're on' are the only words you hear him say, which sets up an enigma to the audience of what is going to happen next.

The girls are shown to be dancing and laughing in the night club, whilst Colin lingers in the corner of the room. Rose goes to the bar to buy a round of drinks, she takes the drinks back to her friends, but one is left unattended at the bar. Colin takes his chance and slips a date rape drug into her drink. The audience then sees, Rose becoming unstable in her activities and can tell that the drugs are working. She heads outside for fresh air and Colin shadows her movements. He alarms her when he touches her shoulder and explains to her that he can take her home safely. The audience gathers that she is heavily sedated and isn’t in her right state of mind so has no control of what is happening. We see a close up of Colin's mobile which he then uses to call an unknown character and tells them to drive outside the club.
A black jeep pulls up thirty seconds later, with blacked out windows. Colin drags her into the back of the car, and she passes out before she knows what is going on. The men look at each other and smile cunningly.

We then go back to the opening sequence and out of the flashback, the unknown character drags Rose to the room in which she hit the other man with her stiletto by her hair, and thrusts her head into the pool of blood coming from his head. He calls her a bad girl and kicks her in the stomach. He then puts the gun down and starts to unzip his trousers ready to rape her; he explains to her in a nasty manner what he is going to do to her with her back to him. Suddenly, Rose grabs the gun that is lying on the floor; however, she is overpowered by the strength of the man who twists her arm around which forces her to drop it. He then whispers something in her ear and rapes her forcefully. When he is lying on the floor in exhaustion, Rose spots a crow bar to the left of her and grabs it. She repeatedly hits him round the head with it until it is obvious that she has killed him. She stares at the dead body for a few seconds before grabbing his car keys from his pocket and runs to the open door, gets in the car and drives off to safety.

THE END.