Genre: Horror/Mystery
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Writer: Andrew Doster
Cast: Emmy Rossum, Jennifer Connelly, Emily VanCamp, Brittany Snow, Odette Annable
Plot: The film begins with a girl, Jana (Emmy Rossum), who is in the hospital because she had an operation to remove a dangerous parasite that was growing inside her. In the evening she is joined by her three closest friends with whom she has a very solid relationship. In fact, as girls they had spent many years together in the same orphanage. The girls are presented, there is Emily (Brittany Snow), who is working as a nurse in a retirement home, Maya (Emily VanCamp), a girl who is trying to detoxify his alcohol problems and Sara (Odette Annable) who has just been fired for having problems with justice for a robbery. Following the intervention, Jana convinces her friends to experience the thrill of a holiday and agree on a trip to an island in the Bahamas, where she had been as a child with her parents, in which to rest and relax away from the world and their problems. There are also scenes where the girls are shown to get off the plane and rent the boat to reach that place.
The girls remain enraptured in seeing this wonderful place with caves, woods and streams. There is a big lake and Sara undresses and enters the water and the fun begins between games and jokes despite the attack of a water snake that scares Emily. After a few hours, the girls, tired, let themselves be carried away by the sounds and smells of that enchanted place and fall asleep on the lake. Suddenly there is a nightmare of Jana in which there are mysterious creatures, water and blood. At this point Jana wakes up all sweaty and hears voices coming from the lake and then from the nearby forest. Jana seems almost hypnotized and can not resist these noises and goes into the woods until at one point faints. Then we show the other girls who continue to rest while they are observed by something in the woods.
Jana wakes up in a small house in the company of a woman dressed in rags and apparently crazy named Doris (Jennifer Connelly). Meanwhile, the other girls wake up and do not find Jana. The girls, frightened, start to call her and over time grows in them the sense of abandonment that all of them felt when they were young when they were in an orphanage.
Meanwhile Doris tells Jana that she has been there for many years because she was the victim of an ancient curse. She tells her that she is attracted to that island by the ancestral call of the creatures that inhabit the lake: "le Vilia", the demonic nymphs that infest the waters of those places. Moreover Doris tells Jana things about her past that only she could know and the girl seems almost convinced by the lady and something seems to move in her belly. In fact, Doris convinces her to have a parasitic twin inside (which is not the one removed at the beginning of the film) and only by offering him the soul and body of other living things, in fact, Jana will be able to absorb inside herself the energy needed to nurture the creature and let it rise directly from its body.
Jana now seems almost hypnotized and her desire for meat grows and kills a small deer.
The other girls continue the search and Sara disappears along the way. The two girls remain reach a cave where inside there is a kind of room with a diary where the terrible history of that island is written and their destiny. Sara is brought by the "Vilia" in front of Jana who kills her with a wound in her throat and eats the remains.
Later Maya and Emily, at the exit of the cave, meet Doris who manages to bring them with a lie on the lake, the place where the nymphs are preparing the dark ceremonial.
The two girls are captured by the horrible "Vilia" and tied and gagged and are made to kneel in the water in front of Jana. It's night and the "Vilia" are all around the girls, with their transparent and sinuous bodies in the middle of the water. After a moment's hesitation, Jana's eyes turn white and kills them both and begins to devour them. The blood begins to flow into Jana's body and into the water and soon after the horrible parasitic twin arises from her and runs off to the middle of the lake. Jana slowly emerges from the hypnotic state caused by creatures and begins to realize what has happened. The upset girl comes out of the water and lies down by the lake with tears.
The film ends with Jana's eyes looking at the screen.
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