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Synopsis: In 1966, in North Bend, Oregon, the runaway Kristen is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Kristen is introduced to Dr. Gerald Stringer, who uses experimental therapy. Then she meets the inmates Emily, Sarah, Zoey and Iris and the tough nurse Lundt. During the night and in the shower later, Kristen sees the ghost of a woman and she learns that she is Alice Leigh Hudson, a mysterious wicked intern that has disappeared. When Iris is ready to go home, she is attacked by the ghost of Alice in the basement and murdered. She vanishes and the inmates decide to seek Iris out. Then Sarah is abducted by the Alice and also killed; the next one is Emily. Meanwhile Kristen escapes from her room and meets Zoey, expecting to protect her. However, Zoey is kidnapped by Alice and Kristen runs to Dr. Stringer's office. She snoops his desk and finds a report with the truth about Alice.
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: Arc Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
2010
89 min
Website
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No! Ah, no!

Please let me go. Please

let me out of here!

Alice, it wasn't my idea, I swear!

They made me do...

No, stop! NO!

No, please don't do this! No!

Just let me go! Alice!

No, please don't do this!

No! Please don't do this!

No! NO!

Where's Sarah?

Sarah? No!

Where's Sarah?

If Alice got Sarah, she'll get us all.

No! No, no, no, no!

Alice Hudson.

This was hers?

I didn't touch her!

It was Sarah and... the other girls!

What did you do to her?

I don't know what she's talking about.

Yes, you do. You shut up, Zoey!

This isn't a game!

What did you do to her?

Why does she want to kill us?

What did they do to her?

Zoey...

Look, please, Zoey...

I need to know.

A:

- Alice was bad.

She hurt us.

She hurt us all the time.

Tammy told us what to do.

Tammy was here before you.

She said she could make it stop.

It was her idea.

So... we got rid of her.

Alice?

What?

I know where your bunny is.

You found it? Yeah.

It's in Tammy's room.

That's mine. You can't have it!

We all helped.

And now she's going to kill us all.

We had to.

She was horrible.

Then why is she after me?

What's it matter? We're all dead.

Emily... Emily!

Emily!

We have to get out of here. OK?

But what about Emily?

We'll get her.

Alright?

Come on.

Emily, what are you doing?

I'm not strong like you.

Put the knife down.

I can't!

We're gonna get out of here.

Emily!

No, no, no, no! This can't be happening.

Please don't let her get me!

I don't wanna die!

Zoey...

Do you trust me?

Open the door.

Where did you get that?

Open the door now.

Calm down. Don't do

anything you'll regret.

We have an incident in progress.

Open the goddamn door!

Hey... Hey, back up!

Easy... Back up!

Calm down. Back up.

Go to the wall.

Back up! Against the wall.

Come on.

Back up!

Back up. Back up! You can't do this.

Watch me! You're only hurting yourself.

What are you gonna do,

Kristen? Where are you gonna go?

Away from here. C'mon, drop the knife.

No! No, let me go! You don't get it!

You don't get it!

Alice Hudson is trying to kill us!

Enough. You can't be serious.

No, please! Alright,

Kristen. Kristen, Kristen...

I need you to calm down.

That girI is a hopeless

case and you know it.

Luckily that's not your call to make.

You honestly think you can cure her?

I have to try.

I need more time with her, that's all.

You're as hopeless as she is.

You could spend 100 years with her...

Ahh!

No! No!

Please... please listen to me!

Get her in a straitjacket

and lock her in her room.

Doctor. You don't understand...

No... we...

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

You need to get some rest.

Come on.

Mmm. Mmm!

Down the hatch.

There. Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?

Sleep tight, sugar.

Sleep tight, sugar.

Where are we going?

We're getting out of here.

Open this door now!

Stop!

Sonofabitch! Don't you close that...!

Don't you close that goddamn...!

He's really mad.

Hey! Get back here!

Wait!

We're trapped!

Maybe not. Here, come on.

Come on!

Zoey, take this.

Come on.

Maybe this goes to

the first floor, right?

I'll go first. Alright. Come on.

Send it back as fast as

you can, alright? I will.

Hey!

Open this door!

F***.

Come on.

Zoey?

Zoey!

Zoey!

What's going on? What?!

Answers. No lies this

time or I swear to God...

Now!

The truth.

Your name...

.. is Alice Lee Hudson.

May I?

You were abducted from your home

the night of September 3, 1958.

I'm Kristen,

not Alice.

I'm Kristen!

You were left chained up in the

basement of an abandoned farmhouse

for nearly two months -

the same farmhouse you burned down.

You were only 11 years old.

Half-starved, sick with

fever, trapped in the darkness,

it was a waking nightmare.

Your only escape was into delusion.

In order to survive the

trauma, your psyche fractured.

You suffer from multiple

personality disorder.

Each personality took a

piece of this nightmare

and locked it away from

you for your own protection.

But the new personalities

became so... dominant

they completely overwhelmed

Alice's personality.

I know it hasn't been pleasant.

But my techniques are helping you.

After severaI years of therapy,

we've been able to isolate

your different identities.

We'd just begun to single

them out and eliminate them

through some experimentaI techniques

when you, Kristen, appeared.

I didn't just appear!

Your psyche invented

Kristen to protect itself

from having to relive this trauma.

And now it's time to say goodbye.

Please don't kill me.

Don't move. It's OK.

She's the last one who got out.

What did you say?

Iris, you know we don't discuss

people who aren't present.

She can't remember the rules

because she's the crazy

one around here, you know?

That's enough.

Is she cured?

She'll probably need

a lifetime of therapy,

but she's no longer a danger to herself.

She is, essentially...

your daughter again.

Can we please see her now?

Alice?

Honey, are you OK?

We love you, sweetheart.

Mom?

Dad?

Oh, honey...

I figured you'd... want

your things around you.

And I put this one back

together for you too.

Thank you.

I think I remember...

What do you remember?

Everything.

The old farmhouse.

This place.

The others.

Emily, Sarah, Iris,

Kristen...

You can forget all about them now.

When can I get out of here?

I really just wanna go home.

Dr Stringer says two, maybe three days.

I think that's enough

visiting for today.

We'll let you get some rest.

Couldn't we stay just

a little bit longer?

You'll have her all

to yourself in no time.

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