Genre: Thriller/Supernatural
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer: Jack Slipter
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Yvonne Strahovski, Katheryn Winnick, Samara Weaving, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Zazie Beetz
Plot: The film begins in a psychiatric hospital Marta Harding (Elisabeth Moss) near a window. In the room there is also his psychologist who is talking. We see confused flashbacks in which Marta meets a man, an architect named Mario (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in the shop where she works. Marta is a clairvoyant who runs a small shop and consultation working mainly with the Tarot cards and selling macabre or hidden objects. Marta suffered a strong attraction for him. Mario seems to be very sweet and nice and the first dates between them seem to be going well. He even agrees to have his hand and Tarot read. Marta is very happy when the "The two lovers" card is released. One evening, however, we see Marta going to collect her car in an underground parking lot after shopping. Near her car we see Mario waiting for her, Marta is surprised to see him there but smiles for the fact that she has the opportunity to see him again. But he seems different from the previous days, he is silent and gloomy and looks at the woman with a disturbing look. Suddenly he snaps and punches her and then tries to abuse her violently while he holds her tight and holds a hand in front of her mouth. The woman tries to react by biting his hand and then trying to escape but he drops her to the ground and rapes her while Martha cries silently with her head turned towards the asphalt. Then we return to the psychiatric hospital while Marta is discharged after a few months spent there and is helped by her best friend Monica (Yvonne Strahovski). After that terrible episode in fact Marta was severely traumatized and began to suffer from a form of PTSD and agoraphobia and had been admitted to the psychiatric hospital for that reason. The two women are going up the elevator to Monica's house and Marta has another flashback in which she is a young girl (Alyvia Alyn Lind) and it is together with her mother Jillian (Katheryn Winnick) that is revealing her special nature to her. Marta apparently inherited her clairvoyance ability from her mother even though she was often told that "Nobody can see everything", that some things will remain hidden. In the flashback we see that Marta is holding her father's photo in her hand while her mother brushes her hair. From their dialogue it is clear that he is dead and only Jillian can see and talk to us and Marta is very sad about this. As the camera moves away we actually see his ghost sitting on the bed next to them. The scene returns to the present where Marta is helped by Monica who helps her settle in a small uninhabited apartment for many years (in a building of Monica's uncle), since Marta refuses to return home because Mario knows his address . From the dialogue of the two friends, we learn that Mario had been interrogated and released and that shortly after, a charred corpse had been found that the scientist had attributed to him. But Martha was convinced that he was still alive and had tried to convince the police, but without success. While Marta looks at the house with a sketch of a smile she sees a box with Tarot cards and other objects from her shop and intimates her friend to burn everything. Monica opposes saying that those objects have helped many people and Marta replies that it is true but they had not helped her making her understand that Mario was dangerous. Then she has a fit of anger and kicks the box while Monica tries to calm her down. Eventually Marta asks Monica to go away and leave her alone. Later we see Marta arranging the clothes in her room. In a drawer he finds an old bracelet, probably belonging to some past owner. Also find an old photograph of a smiling woman hugging a little dog. While arranging the house he also finds other objects, a box with homemade woolen sweaters inside, an old broken music box, a book. Towards evening Marta is on the bed while reading the book and is disturbed by neighbors who are howling loudly while having sex. Marta snorts and opens the fridge and remembers that she has nothing to eat and decides to have a pizza brought in. The woman walks around the house barefoot and starts dialing the number. During the call for a moment she hears screams and disturbing voices and the phone emits strange interferences. She closes her eyes and after a few seconds everything returns to normal hoping that she has not gone completely mad. Then Marta enters the shower and we see another flashback in which you can still see Marta as a young girl and understand that Marta can also communicate with ghosts, sometimes simply by comforting them. In the past, along with his mother Jillian, he also helped the police find out what a murder actually was by finding a dead body in a wood.
After the shower Marta waits for the pizza and then goes to bed. Call Monica asking if she knows who lived in that house before her, Monica says no and will ask her uncle. Then she takes a pill and tries to sleep despite being disturbed by the neighbors' wild screams and the usual whispers in her head. After a while she gets up to drink a glass of water and peeks out the window in the direction of the neighbors. She sees with surprise that her neighbors are two lesbian lovers who at that moment are giggling near the window kissing each other. One of the two is seen to notice Martha watching them. Without being seen by the other woman, the neighbor Tammy (Samara Weaving) takes a large knife in her hand and brings it to the back of the other woman Amy (Zazie Beetz) smiling in the direction of Marta. At this point Marta is visibly frightened and immediately closes the curtain. In the morning Marta is awakened by an incessant knock on her door. The woman's voice is feminine and says to be Tammy, her neighbor. She intimates Martha rather vigorously to open the door and she just wants to talk. But Marta doesn't open and pretends not to be at home. When he looks through the peephole he sees Tammy in skimpy clothes who is returning to his house with the knife in his hand visibly angry. Later around noon he receives Monica's visit, brought her something to eat and her computer since there is no TV yet. Monica says that she has not yet had the opportunity to ask for the information requested by Marta about the previous tenant. When Monica leaves, Marta finds a free wi-fi connection and accesses the internet. Marta falls asleep and has a nightmare in which she sees her apartment flooded with blood on walls and floors where there is a figure lying on the ground. In the dream there is also the neighbor Tammy who brandishes the knife and who knocks violently on the door. Marta wakes up all sweaty, it's night now and it's raining heavily. There are also lightning and thunderstorm. Marta takes a sleeping tablet and goes to the kitchen and looks out the window. With horror he sees a figure that looks a lot like Mario walking on the sidewalk looking around. Terrified, Marta calls the police, who tell her that Mario is dead and tell Marta to calm down. Immediately afterwards he hears screams in his mind and the phone emits strange interference as a couple of days before. Soon after, everything returns to normal. In the morning Marta then covers the windows with pages of newspapers and cardboard and orders surveillance devices via the Internet. Tell the bell boy to leave things at his door. Marta installs surveillance cameras in her home and cameras that overlook the street and the landing. As long as she is covering the windows, she witnesses a violent quarrel between Tammy and her lover Amy.
Later she receives a visit from Monica who is not happy to see how Marta's paranoid aspect is becoming more and more. However, she hugs her friend saying that she believes that she saw Mario the night before and the stories about the crazy neighbor. At this point Monica reveals to Marta that her uncle told her that it does not seem to him that nobody was killed there. She says that a neighbor had been suspected for a short time but there was no evidence. In the evening the cameras seem to work until they start emitting a strange hiss and then have the usual interference. Martha tries to fix them until behind her, in one of them, sees a woman crawling on the ground with a long trail of blood behind it. Subsequently he has another terrible vision in which the bathroom is smeared with blood. In the morning Marta searches for news on the internet and with difficulty finds old articles in which a woman had been killed with a large kitchen knife.The articles also speak of an aggressive neighbor who had been suspected for a short time but in the end there is no it was no evidence to indict her. At this point we see that a video camera shows the figure that looks like Mario near the building. Marta, however, is distracted by another video camera, the episode that shows outside her door that portrays Tammy who is carrying a suitcase that seems very heavy outside her apartment. Marta is very worried about Amy's fate, but shortly after she sees her come out and Marta breathes a sigh of relief. At this point Marta falls asleep but is awakened by disturbing noises that come from the cameras. The noises stop and she hears that her front door is slowly opening. The woman pulls out a knife from under the pillow and walks around the house despite the cameras showing that she looks empty. She looks out the door and sees nothing until the elevator doors open and only red blood comes out. Marta closes the door and steps back.
The whispers in his mind get louder and louder until nail marks appear on the wooden floor as if a person tries to hold on to it until he is dragged away. Furthermore, the screech that Marta hears is very strong. The woman puts her hands in her ears and shouts. When he opens his eyes everything is back to normal. The woman walks around the house with the knife in her hand until she sits on the armchair in a crouched position and cries. floor. But she finds herself not in her house but in the elevator. Marta almost has a panic attack but manages to reach her apartment. While stra returning is attacked by Tammy who accuses her of spying on her. After a confrontation between the two Marta manages to lock herself in the house. When he enters the house he sees that a red liquid is falling from the walls as if it were blood. The woman continues slowly in the corridor while behind her Tammy continues to knock on the door willingly. Martha trembles to see blood everywhere and even pools of blood are born on the ground. Martha also sees a hand asking for help getting out of a pool of blood before she passes out. When he regains consciousness, everything has returned to normal. She prepares a hot tea and decides that she must help the spirit trapped in that house that makes these terrible visions make her. In the meantime, he tells Monica what's going on and that he wants to help the spirit. He asks Monica for help and to bring her some sandalwood and lavender essence, some purple candles he had in his shop and a piece of willow bark. Shortly afterwards the cameras still show signs of malfunction and from one of them he sees that behind him a bloody figure is standing up. Marta turns around and there is nothing but sees that in the cameras the bloody figure that crawls out of the bathroom continues into the corridor and then staggers until she reaches the elevator area. He also hears the sound of water coming from the bathroom, but when it arrives it is normal. At this point he takes the photo of the old tenant in his hand saying that he would help her very soon. Suddenly for a few moments the mirror glass breaks and the sink water starts on its own. At this point Marta prepares for the ritual by drawing a strange symbol on the floor by arranging some objects and the photo of the deceased in the middle of the symbol. While she is getting ready wearing a black dress and looking in the mirror in the bedroom she sees herself as a pretty attractive woman as she once was. She hears Monica ring the bell with the objects Marta had asked for in her hand. Monica is always sympathetic to Marta's behavior but she thinks she is going completely crazy and talks to her about a specialist who can help her.Marta replies that she is not crazy and that maybe she will call him. Marta kneels near the symbol and begins the ritual by lighting the candles and inebriating the air with the essence brought by Monica. Martha shuffles the Tarot and draws 3 cards, violent death, the demon and need for justice. At the end of the ritual the two friends greet each other. After taking a shower, Marta remains in the bathroom and stands in front of the mirror to dry and comb her hair. Meanwhile, we see that the entrance door is opening. Marta puts the objects down and opens the door taking the medicine in her hand. When he closes it behind him Mario appears, who takes her by the hair and slams her on the mirror, which breaks. Marta falls to the ground, almost passed out, losing blood from her forehead. Meanwhile, Mario walks around the apartment, browsing in his room. Marta tries to get up and is joined by Mario who begins to caress her and pass her blood all over her face, telling her that she has been waiting for this moment for a long time and that she missed her very much. Then he slams her on the wall and tries to abuse her again by dropping her in the shower. Marco tries to cling and accidentally opens the water that begins to fall. At this point Mario takes a pair of scissors and uses them as a weapon. towards Martha's belly screaming in pain while Mario sighs when he sees the blood come out. Mario seems almost in a state of trance and Marta makes him fall and the man bangs his head on the floor violently. Seriously injured, Marta comes out of the shower, slowly dragging herself from one room to another, trying to reach safety.She goes to the room near the bed and tries to stand up and take the phone and Call Monica, trying to explain it, but it is not clear how much Monica understands. She sees herself through the camera and every moment is identical to her visions and realizes that her visions were not the visits of the ghost of the old tenant, but her gift that tried to warn her of her impending future. Marta tries to drag herself down the corridor by making a trail of blood on the ground and dirtying the walls when she tries to get up. She struggles to open the door and get close to the elevator when she is reached by Mario and brought back into the house. She falls to the ground and he drags her away and she leaves the nail marks on the floor and then throws her at the kitchen table where there were the objects she had used in the ritual. He tries to strangle her and she manages to take one of the candles and put it in Mario's eye and then with a paperweight breaks his head. Marta completely covered in blood and seriously injured risks dying of bleeding from the injuries but manages to get to the elevator where she falls to the ground closing her eyes. The film closes with Marta, now perhaps at the end of her life where she sees some happy memories of her childhood with both of her parents until the elevator seems to reach the ground floor, the doors open and you hear a female voice that call the name Marta.
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