Hide and Seek (2005) Hey what's up guys. Today
I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "Hide and Seek"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a happy family in the city. An established psychologist named David, arrives
home with his wife after a dinner party. She goes up to the bedroom of her 9-year-old daughter,
Emily, and tucks her into bed with her doll. Before leaving, the wife tells Emily that she
loves her more than anything in the world. When the wife enters the bedroom, the atmosphere
is frosty between her and David. He wants to talk things through, but the wife is adamant
that some things are beyond the help of therapy. She later goes inside the bathroom for a bath,
while David lies down on the bed to sleep. David wakes up in the middle of the night after
a scary dream. He realizes that his wife still hasn't come to bed, and water is dripping in
the bathroom. David goes inside, only to discover his wife has committed suicide,
and is floating lifeless in the bathtub. He cradles her dead body, as Emily enters the
bathroom and lays her eyes on her mother. In the aftermath of his wife's suicide,
David decides that he needs a fresh start. He tells a family friend who is also a psychologist,
that he will move to a small town upstate; so Emily can deal better with her mother's
death. The family friend disagrees with this, since such a big change can have
a negative impact on the child. But David insists that they both need to move.
Shortly after, they pack up their things, and move to a secluded house upstate. They
meet the kind sheriff of the town, who gives them a warm welcome.
David tries to cheer up the sullen and withdrawn Emily. He even tries to cook her favorite food,
and tuck her into bed like the wife used to do; but it just makes Emily
sadder. The child can't understand how her mother could tell her that she loved her,
and then just kill herself like that. The next morning, David scribbles in his journal
his thoughts about his daughter's behavioral problems. He then tries to find her, since she
had run off into the woods to play. Emily has found a cave inside the forest near the house,
and this is where she meets someone new. Eventually, David finds Emily inside the house,
and he tells her that they'll be going out for errands.
On their way out the door, they meet a female neighbor who welcomes them to town,
and gives them a jar of preserves. David brings Emily to a park so she can
play. There, they meet a young blonde woman, and her young daughter the same
age as Emily. Emily does not like that her father is making new friends.
That night, when he tucks Emily into bed, she informs him that she has a new friend
named Charlie. As a psychologist, David knows that his daughter is making up an
imaginary friend to cope with her trauma. So he plays along, and asks if she met Charlie
when they went to town that morning. She replies that she had met him earlier.
Later, when David throws out the trash, he notices that Emily's doll is in the garbage bin, and its
face was deformed. It's as if someone had struck its face with a blade several times in anger.
The next morning, David and Emily go to town. He leaves Emily in the car,
so he can buy some fishing gear in the shop across the street. He returns with the goods,
but sees that the sheriff has given him a parking ticket for parking in the handicap
zone. David tries to ask him for a break, but the sheriff is adamant that rules are rules.
David doesn't let this ruin their day. He takes Emily to a nearby river so they can fish. However,
she picks up a bug, and cold-heartedly sticks it with a fishing hook.
That night, David dreams of the same party. He wakes up in the middle of the night, and goes to
the bathroom. There, he sees lit candles and words written with red crayon, accusing him of letting
his wife die. Emily appears in the doorway of the bathroom, and David immediately concludes that
she is the one behind this. However, the young girl insists that it was Charlie who did it.
Sometime later, the blonde from the park visits their house with her daughter, so she can have a
playdate with Emily. The blonde reveals that she recently got divorced. There seems to be hormone
chemistry between her and David. Meanwhile, the two young girls are in Emily's bedroom. Emily
warns her that she has to leave, or else bad things will happen to her. To illustrate her
point, Emily holds up the bashed-up face of the girl's doll. The girl gets freaked out, and she
runs to their car. However, the blonde mother still wants to see David again, so she leaves
him her number. When he sees Emily, his daughter declares that she doesn't need any friends.
Later on, David sees Emily talking with a male neighbor, who is the female neighbor's husband.
He takes his daughter inside the house, and warns her that she shouldn't talk to strangers like
that. But Emily acts out and stomps away. That night, David is downstairs when he hears
Emily laughing in her room upstairs, as if she's talking with someone. He goes to her,
and confirms that she is alone. She reveals that she was talking to Charlie, and he had
just left through her open bedroom window. Deeply bothered by his daughter's imaginary friend,
David asks Emily to describe Charlie to him, because he wants to meet him. Emily
answers that Charlie does not like him. David continues to write his observations
on his daughter's increasingly disturbing behavior in his journal. One night, he hears
Emily screaming. He finds her in the basement, cowering in the corner. She tells him that she
and Charlie were playing hide and seek. The next morning, the female neighbor visits
them again. She apologizes for how weird her husband was, and explains that they
recently lost a daughter, and seeing Emily reminded her husband of their own child.
That night, the blonde comes over for dinner. Emily opens a box of her mother's old things,
and she puts on her dress and jewelry in an effort to remind David of her mother's memory. The blonde
tries to be as understanding as possible, even when Emily nonchalantly tells her that her mother
died by slitting her wrists in the bathtub. Emily is angry, because Charlie had told her that David
likes the blonde like he liked her mother. David is enraged, and he sends Emily to her room.
One night, David wakes up again from yet another dream about what happened at the dinner party. He
opens the bathroom door, and discovers another threatening message written in red crayon. It
turns out, someone had killed Emily's cat, and left its body floating in the bathtub. But Emily
still insists that it was Charlie who did it. Terrified of his daughter's worsening state of
mind, he calls the family friend to analyze Emily. The family friend sits down with the young girl,
and asks her about Charlie. Emily answers that Charlie talked about the family friend,
and that he was afraid that she would get in the way. The family friend concludes
that Emily really is mentally unwell, and she needs to be in a facility so she can be further
monitored. But David does not want to subject Emily to another drastic change. He tells the
family friend that he'll give it two weeks, to see if Emily needs psychiatric help.
One night, David sets up his telescope to spy on the neighbors. He sees them through
their window arguing. The female neighbor is wildly gesturing toward David's house.
The next morning, David visits their house with an apple pie. He sits down with the female neighbor,
who promptly discloses that things are not alright with her husband. She bursts into tears, but
clamps up and refuses to speak moments later. That same afternoon, the blonde visits the house.
She goes upstairs to Emily's room to clear the air between them. She explains that she would never
want to replace Emily's mother, and that she wants to be friends with Emily. The young girl
then invites the blonde to play hide and seek. She informs her that Charlie is hiding in the closet.
Thinking that Charlie is just an imaginary friend, the blonde plays along, and opens the closet door.
However, an unknown man bursts from the closet, and pushes the blonde out the bedroom window and
into the ground below, fatally killing her. David abruptly wakes up from his nap in his
study. He goes up to Emily's room, and sees her furiously sketching the scene of the
blonde falling out the window. David sees the window shards on the ground below.
At that same moment, the sheriff arrives. He informs David that the blonde has been missing,
and he found her car by the side of the road. He then found some tire tracks that led to the house,
and he surmised that the blonde might have visited David. But David makes it clear that he hasn't
seen the blonde at all. The sheriff leaves. David then forces Emily to tell him the truth.
The girl is crying, and points him toward the bathroom. There, he discovers the blonde's dead
body, and another threatening message. Emily tells him that Charlie killed the blonde,
and forced her to help him move the body. David goes outside to look for Charlie,
and comes face-to-face with the male neighbor. The male neighbor explains that he has been
worried about Emily, so he came to check on her. But David doesn't believe him,
and instead assumes that he is Charlie. Meanwhile, Emily runs to the telephone and
calls the family friend for help. David pulls out a knife and cuts the
male neighbor. He runs back inside the house, and locks the front door to prevent the male
neighbor from following him. He hugs Emily, and assures her that Charlie is gone. But
Emily says that Charlie always comes back. She leads him to his study, where David discovers
several carton boxes. It turns out, he hasn't even unpacked his things in his
office yet. His journal, which he thought he was writing in, was actually blank.
The truth is then revealed. Charlie is David's split personality. During the party he and his
wife attended, he discovered that she was cheating on him with another man. Filled with rage and
powerlessness, he subconsciously created his Charlie alter-ego, which is powerful and violent.
Then his Charlie personality took over, and he smothered his wife to death with a pillow.
Afterward, he covered up her murder, by making it look like it was a suicide. Whenever Charlie
leaves, David wakes up and has no idea what he did. All along, he was the one who has been
terrorizing Emily, and he also killed the blonde. Emily was just displaying disturbing behavior,
because she was traumatized by what Charlie had shown her. It's revealed that The young
girl was trying to keep people away, so that the violent Charlie won't hurt them.
After this realization, Charlie completely takes over David's body. The sheriff returns
to the house after the male neighbor called him. He goes to Emily's room, and she ominously shows
him that she is sketching a drawing of him being dead. Charlie appears and kills the sheriff.
He then chases Emily through the house. The young girl locks her bedroom door, but David
keeps stabbing her door with a knife. The family friend arrives at the house,
and discovers the dying sheriff. She takes his gun and searches for Emily.
Meanwhile, Emily escapes her room, and goes outside to the cave hidden in the forest. The
family friend finds her there. But David also appears, and he's about to kill his daughter,
but the family friend shoots him first. David dies, and the family
friend holds the grieving young girl. After David's demise, the family friend
adopts Emily, and ensures that she gets the proper counseling for her to deal with her
harrowing experience. It appears that Emily is now happier and more carefree. The movie
ends with Emily drawing a picture of herself and the family friend. But she draws herself
with two heads, implying that she has the same dissociative identity disorder as her father.
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