The film begins with a drama teacher named Robert, practicing in front of
the mirror. Then we see him in his class, where he teaches the aspiring actors.
He tells them that ‘this is not acting, this is hell, and hell is where they are,
and today they will birth the monster’. Then he calls all of them on stage, and
asks one of the students to show him the monster. The guy tries to roar like a monster but Robert
is unimpressed by his act. He then asks Brody to become a monster, and she instantly bows her head.
The girl stays at the state for a while and Robert loses his calm, and tells her
to look at him while he speaks. Brody then looks up with a snarl,
and we see that she has turned into a literal monster, much to Robert’s shock.
Next we meet with a painter named Marcus. He is working on his new gruesome painting,
when he gets a call from his agent. He irritably picks it up, and is told that
his client is being impatient for his painting, he asks him to make it big, and finish it faster.
Marcus tells him to go back to counting his pennies and let him finish his art.
He gets exhausted, and sits down on the couch. Brody, his girlfriend, calls him and informs that
she has been selected for the exclusive acting class, that only accepts a handful of people.
Marcus isn’t so thrilled about this, and asks her why she is wasting her time on such a thing, as he
doesn’t believe acting to be an art, and hangs up. He then looks at the mirror and asks himself who
he is, he tries to encourage himself by repeating that,
‘others have seen what is, and they ask why? I have seen what could be, and ask why not?’
Suddenly, he feels a sharp pain in his abdomen and falls to his knees.
Later, while relaxing on the couch, he opens his eyes to see a dark
figure standing beside his doppelganger, who then attacks him with a piece of a mirror.
Marcus blinks and both the figures disappear. The monster is standing behind him and it
disappears again. Marcus calls his agent and tells him to pick up the painting tomorrow.
He looks to his side to see the monster sitting beside, staring at him. Then the painting of
Marcus is then drawn by the figure as it shows the paintbrush in its hand.
In the next scene, a screenwriter named Eddie Park, who is writing a story.
He excitedly finishes, writing a killing scene for his latest slasher movie. He
writes about a couple Steve and Janice. A man named Whistler, breaks into the
couple’s house, but the couple overpowers the intruder and ends up killing him.
He closes his laptop with satisfaction. He then hears someone speaking behind him, and is shocked
to see the character Whistler come to life. Whistler tells Eddie that his stories are
worthless and trash, and he doesn’t know how to write a good violent bloodbath.
Eddie is terrified and Whistler tells him to imagine that Whistler gets to Steve before
he could attack, and grabs his head to smash it hard against the wall,
while also performing the scene to Eddie. He proceeds to demonstrate Eddie
what true viciousness looks like. He then says that he almost forgot about Janice,
so he summons her character from the script to life, and brutally finishes her in front of him.
He tells Eddie that it was nice to work with him
and leaves. The scene cuts as the life leaves Eddie’s body.
Later, a couple named John and Ivy go on a date in John’s house.
John asks Ivy the meaning of her name and she says that it means ‘satan’s daughter’.
This surprises John but Ivy lightens his mood by saying that she is kidding.
John offers her the drink and they discuss Eddie’s film ‘Whistler’,
that they just returned from watching. Ivy says that she didn’t like the warning
of whistling that the murderer gave, before killing someone.
She thinks it should be quiet and surprising, and John tells her that she is way out of his league.
He asks her about her job and she tells him that she does scriptures.
John says that he would love to check out her work someday, and Ivy says she has some of the pictures
with her, and John excitedly asks her to show him. She takes out some Polaroid pictures with some
disturbing images of lifeless bodies, he asks her, what that is, and Ivy says that it’s a man’s head.
John thinks they are too realistic. Afraid to come off as uncool,
John tells her he doesn’t understand much about art, but he knows music,
as he wanted to be a rock star when he was a kid. She tells him that art is not about what you see,
it’s about what you feel. She tries to explain more about art,
and John is not able to understand a single philosophical word, that comes out of her mouth.
She then takes him to the kitchen and asks him how he feels looking at her. He says that he
feels she is pretty, interesting, and smart. Ivy abruptly takes a knife and puts it on her
throat and asks him how he feels now? John says that he doesn’t like it and
feels scared and nervous. He asks her to put the knife down and stop behaving like that.
She smiles and explains that she just transformed into an art, that she just went from being
just a girl to a strong feeling, making him have an instant emotional response to her.
She tells him that she can transform him into an art if he lets her.
John says that he got freaked out with what she did. Ivy replies that he could be her rock star,
and says that she wants to turn him into an art. John takes the cue and leans in to kiss her
but Ivy pulls away, and says that she has to leave as it’s getting too late.
She leaves after giving her scarf to him, gets into her car, but comes back again.
John opens his door and is met by a hammer in the head. Next we see a dark metal themed room
where John’s body is dressed like a rock star. Ivy takes his picture with her Polaroid camera.
In the next scene, we see two girls hiding from a 15 year old boy whom they were babysitting.
The kid finds them and knocks one of them out while the other runs away,
and the boy begins to chase her. It turns out to be a film that two girls,
Brody and Hope are watching. The film is named “Big
Baby” and is also written by Eddie. Hope says that it’s the greatest movie
of all time while Broody thinks it’s stupid. They talk about the film where the baby was
so angry to be left alone in his crib, while his babysitter had fun with her boyfriend,
that he went on a killing spree, 20 years later. Brody checks her phone and finds out that she
got accepted into Robert Anderson Wright’s exclusive acting class.
She says that she should call her boyfriend Marcus to tell him about this. Hope doesn’t
like Marcus as he is rude and ignorant. Brody defends that he is just sensitive,
and we learn that Ivy was Marcus’s ex who was a psycho that spent time in prison.
Brody says that Marcus needs her, as she keeps him grounded.
She calls Marcus, while Hope goes to get more popcorn.
Marcus answers the call very rudely as we saw in the earlier scene.
He tells her how he is doing something great with his painting,
while she is busy playing dress up. He belittles her for her choices and hangs up.
Hope approaches, and Brody says that they should celebrate, but Hope has a band practice
and promises to celebrate when she comes back. Then we see Hope and her rock band at practice.
They are chilling out after, and one of them talks about how music has true powers,
that could be the link between good and evil. After a long rant about metaphysics and his
philosophy of music, he finally gets to the point, saying that he knows the six note
combination that, if played in the right sequence, has the power to manifest evil.
The other two make fun of him and leave, but Hope stays behind asking him to teach her the notes.
Hope gets back and turns on the light to see Brody sitting alone in the dark.
Hope asks what’s wrong, and Brody says that Marcus has not been answering her calls
all night long, and she is worried about him. Hope asks Brody to not let him do this to her,
and says that they should go party, as they previously planned, but Brody is
upset and doesn’t feel like partying anymore. Later the same night, Hope begins to play the
same six notes that her band mate had told her about, while trying several sequences.
Although it doesn’t seem to be working but back in the bedroom, Brody gets possessed by some entity.
She begins to gasp and twist her body in certain angles, soon she turns into a monster.
Hope thinks that the notes are useless and then hears some sound, we see a haunting figure
standing beside her, while staring at her. She dismisses the noise and goes to the
bathroom where she stares at herself in the mirror. After getting out, she again hears
noise coming from Brody’s room. Hope follows the sound while
the figure follows her. She reaches Brody’s room
and before she could open it, Brody opens it suddenly from inside, startling Hope.
Brody looks fine, despite her previous transformation.
Hope asks if she is okay, and Brody says that she is fine and asks her if Hope is okay.
She is acting really distant and sinister, as she says that she thinks
they will not be seeing Marcus anymore, as something really bad has happened to him.
Hope doesn’t understand what she is talking about and asks her what she means.
Brody asks her if she knows who Gabriel Berlatier was, Hope says no.
Brody tells her that Gabriel was a woman who worked in southern France as a maid.
She was working there to earn money to pay off her bills.
After being savagely attacked by a rabid dog. Brody adds that she was the reason Vincent Van
Gough got rid of his ear, he thought if he offered his own flesh, then it would help her heal.
Hope still doesn’t understand why Brody is telling her all this, and is really
confused at her friend’s weird demeanor. Brody says that she is going to shine in
the acting class tomorrow, and says that she has prepared a monologue,
and asks if Hope wants to hear it. Hope uncomfortably accepts the offer,
and Brody goes on to recite a dark poetry that she calls “The Debt” by Ryan Knightly,
with a horrifying depth and says that ‘she is an allegoria of nothing’.
Hope still is just as confused, she bids Brody good night and walks away.
She sits on the couch, and intently contemplates if something dark was really manifested through
her notes, when she hears the piano playing by itself, the same notes she had played before.
She slowly looks towards the sound with fear in her eyes, as the notes
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