Film Synopsis

“EVE”

The film starts with a swing…There’s a little girl in a red coat swinging on it. The only noise that can be heard is the rusty screech of the swing and a quite song sung by the girl. We only see the back of the little girls head.

The first time we see Eve she’s holding hands with her mother and they are walking through a park. The mother engages in a conversation with her friend ignoring Eve’s cries for attention. Getting fed up with Eve’s moaning she lets go of her hand and continues with her conversation. After a couple of minutes she reaches out for Eve but finds that she is not there. She looks around in panic calling out for her without any luck. She realises Eve has disappeared.

People rush to the woman’s help and contact the police. The police arrive soon after and ask witnesses for statements but no one is able to one as everyone claims not to have seen or heard her when she disappeared or in fact anything suspicious happening at the market. Therese, Eves mother, is rushed to the police station where she contacts her ex-husband who always blamed her of being a bad mother and for the past several years tried to get custody of Eve, without any luck. They argue about Eve’s disappearance both blaming each other for her gone missing and eventually are split up by the police officers. After further questioning, Theresa is told to go home and await further information. She gets home, sits on the sofa and clutching Eves blanket, cried herself to sleep.

A few years after Eve’s disappearance we come across a group of friends; Crystal Lake, Tony Hutch, Keith Mount, Nora Clark and Benny James. It is evident from the start that the leaders of the group are Crystal and Tony, the pair is also together. They don’t seem to care about anyone but themselves and spend most time together as opposed with anyone else in the group. Although they’re not bad kids, they like to cause trouble in their little town and are regarded by everyone else as someone you should stay away from. However you can’t miss Nora doesn’t really belong to the group as she’s quite plain and doesn’t talk much and hates it when the group does something stupid which they tend to do a lot.

We see them walking through the same market Eve went missing in. They are laughing and having a good time, totally oblivious to what happened there only a few days ago. They come across some flowers which have been laid down in Eve’s memory as the whole town believes there’s no hope in finding her again. Tony accidently steps on the flowers and kicks them away without any regret and walks away making a joke of it as the rest of the group laugh along with him. They walk towards Tony’s car and decide to go for a ride around the town.

As they get in, Crystal starts playing with the radio and after coming across a few bad music stations, leave the radio on a news broadcast after hearing the name of their town. The broadcast talks about a little girl that has recently gone missing and appeals for anyone with any information to come forward and contact the police. The group listen intently and soon realise that the flowers they trampled on where meant for the little girl. They look at each other shocked but soon forget about the whole thing. Suddenly, Tony loses control of the car and quickly brakes. When he tries to start again, the car doesn’t move. They are now stranded in the middle of an empty road at the edge of town totally surrounded by woods. They all blame each other until they come to the conclusion that no one will probably come across them any time soon and they should all go and look for help themselves or end up being stranded in the woods at night. By this time, it already starts to get dark and they need to act quickly. They start walking together, not wanting to break up but soon realise that they have more of a chance to fins help if they split up and go in different directions. Tony, Crystal and Benny walk one way and Nora and Keith go the other way. At this point things are starting to turn strange. Nora and Keith see a silhouette of a person in the distance and run towards it, happy that thy found someone who could help them. Instead they see an old man who just stares into the distance mumbling about terrible things happening in the woods. Not wanting to spend another minute with the man, they run away terrified.

In the meanwhile, Tony and Benny joke about how fun it would be to send the night in the woods and make a lot of noise. Fed up Crystal, who is terrified of being in the woods at night has a go at the boys and makes her way back to the car where she claims she’ll wait out the night alone if she has to. As she makes her way back towards the car, she starts to choke and grabs on to her throat. She feels herself being pulled up by something that feels like a thick rope tied around her neck. She tried to struggle but she can’t see what she’s struggling with and soon gives up on the fight, being the first ne of her friends to die. We can see her legs dangling from her lifeless body.

Realising that they have been immature and making the situation worst for Crystal, Benny and Tony come back to look for her. Following in her tracks, they call her mobile and follow the sound of the ringtone which leads them to her dead body. Tony looks at his girlfriend’s body terrified and scream. Benny does the same and they both run away. They stop once they think they have gone far enough and try to evaluate their situation. Being totally lost in the woods now, they start to realise that the only way to get out is to find the rest of the group and try to find their way to their car and get out of there. They start walking fast, keeping a look out for anything strange as they struggle to find Nora and Keith They then hear a scream, a familiar scream. Realising that it is Nora they rush to help her, fearing that something horrible happened again. They find her terrified and she tells them that when they were walking around looking for help, Keith went ahead and when she caught up to him she found his dead body covered in scars and foam at his mouth. The boys tell her about Crystal and all three of them start to run away, anywhere, in any direction just trying to get away as fast as they can. As Benny and Nora run together they realise that they lost Tony. They go back to get him, fearing that the same thing happened to him. They find his body covered in scars and blood and start running away again. Whenever they try to run away they end up in the same spot as they were before and start to come to terms with their inevitable death. As they gather the strength to run again, Benny is pulled away and dragged on the floor begging Nora to save him, as he’s dragged to the river Nora chases after him but can’t catch up, doesn’t get there in time and watches her friend drown.

As she’s about to give up as well, she decides to make a run for it and save herself. She runs for hat seems like forever and surprisingly finds herself at the edge of the road. When she sees a car she pulls it over and tells the driver to drive away as fast as he can. As they drive off, she looks out the widows and sees a little girl in a red coat standing on the edge of the woods, smiling. The driver tried to communicate with her but Nora is too devastated to say a word.

It turns out later that the little girl that was kidnapped at the park has been locked and cruelly abused in an old shed in the woods. Her tortures made her turn from an innocent girl to a blood thirsty animal seeking revenge on anyone who enters the woods. Especially those who took her disappearing as a joke.