The film opens with Jennifer Hills, a novelist who’s decided to rent a remote cabin in
the deep south, so she could focus on finishing her novel.
Along the way, she stops at a shop to get the keys to the cabin she'll stay at.
At the shop, a man named Earl, the cabin owner, hands her the keys before instructing her
how to get there.
The man mentions the cabin is difficult to get to, but the view and peace are great.
However, the longer she traveled through the countryside, the more confused the girl became.
She then decides to make a stop at a gas station to fill her tank, and comes across three workers
hanging around.
They are Andy, Stanley, and Johnny, who tried to hit on her, but failed because this lady’s
all business.
Instead, she tells him where she’s headed, and asks him to pinpoint the exact way to
her cabin, which we definitely shouldn’t do.
Noticing how attractive the girl is, Johnny attempts to make a move on Jennifer, but she
accidentally causes Johnny to spill a bucket of fluid, causing Andy and Stanley his friends
to laugh at him.
As Jennifer drives off, Johnny's shame is clear to see.
After the long stretch of road, Jennifer arrives at the totally not creepy cabin, that will
serve as her home for the next several months.
She immediately unpacks her belongings, and starts writing right away.
The following day, Jennifer relaxes by the lake, right when she starts hearing noises
coming from the woods.
She doesn't pay much attention to them, because they're probably just crows.
She then keeps writing on the porch of her cabin, until she hears sounds coming from
the shed.
Curious, she walks up to the shed to see what's going on, and finds nothing but various tools
and canisters that spell the word ‘poison,’ but our girl doesn’t budge.
Jennifer returns to the cabin, and not long after, she accidentally spills wine on her
shirt, forcing her to wash it by the sink.
Unbeknownst to her, somebody is videotaping her half-naked.
On the next morning, she goes for a run and comes across an abandoned house, and for some
reason, she decides to explore it.
However, she doesn't find anything interesting inside, and keeps going about her day.
Up next, she returns to her cabin and wants to take a bath, but has to scrap the idea
as she finds that the sink water runs brown, and the toilet is clogged.
Jennifer proceeds to call in a plumber named Matthew to tell him her problem.
But as if that wasn't bad enough, she drops her phone in the toilet, forcing her to dry
it with a hairdryer.
Matthew the plumber then comes to fix the bathroom, but it turns out that he has a speech
problem and an intellectual disability, and Jennifer gives him an abrupt kiss out of gratitude.
In the woods, Andy, Stanley, and Johnny hang out and kill fish for fun, while being recorded
by Stanley.
After leaving the house, Matthew joins the three men fishing in the woods nearby,
who turn out to be his friends.
Matthew then tells Johnny that Jennifer kissed him, but Johnny doesn’t believe him, so
Stanley confirms that it is real because this boy can't even lie.
Creepily enough, Stanley shows them the video he took of Jennifer last night, which riles
Johnny up.
He begins saying that girls like Jennifer would love to be shown a good time, and insinuates
that he’s going to do something.
Later that night, Jennifer still hears the strange sounds around the house, and becomes
more uneasy about them.
Jennifer hears a thud on her door, and finds a dead bird on her doorstep.
The girl goes around the cabin to see if anyone’s there, but she finds no one outside.
But to her surprise, when she returns to her laptop, she finds a selfie of Johnny and his friends.
Once she begins to freak out, Johnny and his friends enter the room; Andy starts taunting
her, while Stanley toting a handy cam.
Johnny even drags Matthew into the room, even though he clearly doesn’t condone any of this.
Scared, Jennifer tries telling them that her boyfriend is coming soon, but that doesn’t
deter the men.
They begin harassing her, and even start making fun of her writing, and start throwing lit
matches on her.
Johnny coerces her to drink, and she finally does out of fear, meanwhile Matthew curls
up in the corner, not brave enough to stand up for her.
The scene gets even more disturbing when Johnny asks her to show him her teeth.
At first, this confuses her, but she finally does what he asked when he starts threatening
her with a baseball bat.
Up next, he pulls out a gun and shoves it into her mouth.
When the boys are laughing about it, Andy walks up to Jennifer, but this time, she takes
the bottle and smashes it against his knee, earning her the opportunity to take a pepper
spray, and uses it to Stanley as she dashes outside.
It allows her to escape into the woods and run to safety.
When she runs through the woods, she runs into the town’s sheriff and Earl, the cabin’s owner.
In tears, she tells them everything about the assault that she has experienced recently
and pleads for help.
The sheriff asks Earl to head back, and offers to accompany her back to the cabin to sort things out.
As soon as they get there, they find that the cabin is empty, so the sheriff begins
looking around.
However, the sheriff suddenly starts judging her when he sees a weed joint, and a broken
alcohol bottle.
He accuses her of not telling the truth about what happened, and she has no right to make
false accusations about the men he knew since they were kids.
Up next, the sheriff performs a body search, which surprisingly, is nothing more than an
excuse to feel her up.
They are interrupted by Johnny and his friends, who have just returned.
The sheriff then begins assaulting her while the rest of the men watch.
When she tries to fight back, Johnny holds her on chokehold, and rips her pants off while
forcing Matthew to take his clothes off.
Initially, Matthew refuses, but finally slides down his pants out of fear.
The men then hold her down and orders Matthew to force himself on Jennifer until he is satisfied,
while Stanley records the whole thing.
In the middle of it, the psycho sheriff even has the audacity to take a phone call from
his little daughter.
Afterwards, Matthew pukes his guts out, and sometime later, Jennifer uses what’s left
of her strength to make a run for the woods.
As she goes deeper into the woods, she runs into the group again, where more sufferings
await her.
Andy then drags Jennifer near a puddle, and submerges her head a couple of times.
As she lies on the ground, the sheriff takes off his pants and forces himself on her, ignoring
her cries for mercy.
Up next, the men take turns on Jennifer, while Stanley's camera is rolling.
Jennifer wakes up and finds that dirt is all over her; she rises and starts walking away
to a bridge over a river.
We can see that the men casually follow her, and the sheriff gets ready to shoot her to
save his own skin, but she immediately plunges into the water and disappears.
They wait for her to surface, but she never does, so they trek along the river in hopes
that her body would turn up, but turned up empty-handed.
This causes the sheriff to panic, so he asks the boys to dispose of her car, and all her
things from the cabin, and to burn the tape Stanley recorded.
After the eventful day, the sheriff heads home to his family, where his wife and daughter
welcome him.
He spends the evening at home as if nothing ever occurred, showing no regret for his actions.
On the next day, the sheriff returns the cabin keys back to the owner, and simply states
that Jennifer has left, and that Jennifer was a problematic alcoholic.
Over the next few days, the boys move on with their lives as if nothing had happened, while
Matthew is sinking in guilt for what he’s done.
While he’s sitting alone in the woods, he even imagines seeing Jennifer’s ghost.
A month later, the sheriff gets a phone call from Earl, the cabin owner, saying that someone
named Barbara is asking Jennifer’s whereabouts, as she hasn’t been seen in a month.
Meanwhile, Stanley comes running to his friends in panic, saying that somebody stole his handy cam.
Here he reveals that the handy Cam contains the recording of what they did to Jennifer,
and that he never burned the tape despite having been told to.
This infuriates Johnny, he starts beating Stanley up, but Andy calms him down.
That evening, Johnny is watching TV alone when he hears a thud on his door, and finds
a dead bird there.
Confused, he retreats, only to find another thud at his door.
Pissed, he takes his gun and storms outside after the next thud, only to find one of Jennifer’s
sandals on his doorstep.
He shoots wildly at thin air, and runs towards the shifting bushes across the yard but finds
nothing.
On the next day, the sheriff returns home to discover that someone has mailed his wife
a tape, which is none other than the tape containing Jennifer’s rape.
This sends him on a spiral, and prompts him to start heading to Johnny’s place.
There, the enraged sheriff confronts the three, especially Stanley, thinking that he is playing
a prank on him.
Johnny concludes that Matthew is behind all this, because Matthew is nowhere to be found.
Later that day, the sheriff goes out hunting with Earl.
As they sit down to rest,
he suddenly shoots the poor old man dead.
The reason behind it is that Earl is one of the loose ends to the crime, as he saw the
sheriff bring Jennifer back to the cabin with him.
Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Matthew wakes up in the abandoned cabin, and suddenly comes
across Jennifer, sitting on the couch.
Glad that she’s still alive, he comes up to her and starts crying while telling her
he’s sorry.
But of course that’s not good enough; she takes out a rope and begins choking him.
On that same day, Stanley and Andy take to the woods on their search for Matthew, until
they hear the faint sound of music playing, which leads them to the same abandoned house
Jennifer found at the beginning of the movie.
Judging from its state, it appears that someone has been living there.
While Stanley is out alone, he shockingly comes face to face with Jennifer, and as he
steps closer, he gets caught on a bear trap and screams in pain.
This prompts Andy to come to his rescue, only to be knocked out in the head by Jennifer.
Sometime later, Stanley wakes up to find that he’s been tied up to a tree stump.
Jennifer takes her time with by videotaping him, and force-feeding him a dead rat.
Afterwards, she punctures hooks through his eyelids and tie them on the stump.
While recording him, Jennifer guts a fish and spreads its insides all over Stanley's face.
The scent of the fish guts attracts numerous crows that begin to peck him.
After some time, his eyeballs are eaten by the birds, and he bleeds to death.
While this is going on, Andy wakes up and finds himself tied on a few boards over a
bathtub.
The water in the tub keeps rising just as Jennifer enters to check on him.
Wasting no time, Jennifer starts dunking Andy’s head repeatedly in the water, ignoring his
pleas for her to let him go.
To make it more exciting for her, she pours some acidic substance in the water.
She then removes a plank from underneath him, forcing him to hold his own body weight unless
he wants to drown to death.
And when he couldn’t hold himself up anymore, he repeatedly sinks into the acidic water
until he dies.
Up next, Jennifer visits Johnny at the gas station, and knocks him out with a speed wrench.
Like his other pals, Johnny wakes up tied up, and naked, with a horse bit pulling his
mouth.
Jennifer pulls hard on the bridle and begins taking out his teeth, making him realize his
mistakes, and causing him to piss himself out of fear.
Afterwards, she takes the bridle off and pulls out a gun, which she puts in his mouth.
But arrogant as ever, he still has the audacity to laugh, at least until she takes out a pair
of shears, and chops his pee pee off, before shoving it in his mouth.
Johnny of course bleeds to death and yes, this scene is as gruesome as you might imagine.
On the other side of town, the sheriff gets a phone call from his daughter, who excitedly
announces that her new teacher is paying a visit.
When she hands the phone to said teacher, it turns out to be the finest teacher he could
find for his daughter: our beloved Jennifer.
She confidently introduces her name to the sheriff, which of course makes him panic.
Out of concern for his family's safety, the sheriff rushes home, and when he gets there,
he finds that his daughter has left, because Jennifer asked her to hang out.
He immediately goes in search for her at an empty playground with his daughter still out
of sight.
However, when he reenters his car, Jennifer ambushes him.
When he wakes up, he finds himself inside the cabin with a shotgun shoved inside his behind.
Jennifer then shows up, and begins talking about how nice his daughter is, and how he
could tolerate assaulting a woman.
To torture him, Jennifer begins ramming the barrel deeper.
Afterwards, she ties a string around the trigger, and reveals an unconscious figure sitting
across the room, who is none other than Matthew.
She ties the other end of the string to Matthew’s wrist, so that if Matthew moves his arm, he’d
pull the trigger.
The sheriff pleads for his life as Jennifer walks out.
Moments later, Matthew wakes up and begins stirring.
And before the sheriff could warn him,
the trigger is pulled, and the two are shot dead, marking the end of the movie.