The movie opens with a pair of middle-aged men walking through some kind
of facility discussing mundane details about marriage and potential
children, while a younger woman in a lab coat is trying to inform them
about an incident at the Stockholm facility. The two men are not
particularly concerned about what she is telling them. They mention that
the facility in Japan will get the job done, and that their U.S.
facility usually comes in second place. As they board a golf cart and
drive off, the younger of the two men invites the older one to come over
to his house for the upcoming weekend.
The scene shifts to a
college-town neighborhood with a pair of young girls, Dana and Jules,
talking about school. Apparently, Dana had an affair with one of her
professors and it ended badly. Curt walks in and throws a football at
the girls. It flies out the window and Curt's friend Holden (a fix up
for Dana) catches it down below. The guys are there to pick up the girls
for a long weekend at a cabin by the lake that Curt's cousin owns. Dana
finishes packing and they all go downstairs to pack up the RV. They are
about to
leave when their friend Marty pulls up in his car smoking pot
from a huge bong that converts into a travel mug.
We cut back to
video screens in the previously seen facility where the two middle-aged
men, Sitterson and Hadley, are watching all of this happen. Apparently,
they have been drugging the kids through various means (Hair dye for
Jules, Marty's stash, etc.) but the reasons why are not yet clear.
The
group is close to the cabin when they stop for gas and directions. The
attendant, Mordecai, is old, unfriendly, and more than a little bit
crazy. He tells them that they will have no problem getting to the
cabin, it's the getting back they should be worried about. The kids
laugh at him, he becomes sarcastic and aggressive and there's almost a
fight when he refers to Jules as a "whore". Instead, everyone gets back
into the RV and heads out. They have to go through a u-shaped tunnel in
the mountain to get to the cabin. As they pass through it, a bird tries
to fly across the ravine and hits an invisible shield. It electrocutes
the bird and it falls, presumably, to its death.
Meanwhile, back
at the facility, the phone rings and Hadley answers. It's Mordecai. He
tells them that the college kids are on their way to the cabin and tells
them how the reveler almost messed it up for them and they should be
careful. Then he gets mad because he's on speakerphone and hangs up
while Hadley and Sitterson laugh.
They arrive at the cabin and
unpack. It's obvious that they are still being watched by cameras set up
by the facility people. Holden is in his bedroom, putting on his
bathing suit when he notices an awful painting on the wall. He takes it
down and underneath it there's a window into the next room where Dana is
staying. She starts to take off her clothes, unaware that the mirror in
her room is revealing everything to Holden in the next room. Holden
runs into Dana's room and tells her what's going on and they switch
rooms. Now Dana can see Holden and she definitely likes what she sees.
All
of the people at the facility have gathered together to place bets on
what fate the people in the cabin will choose. Hadley really wants it to
be the Mer-man. There is a new agent in the facility with Hadley and
the others, his name is Truman. Truman is shocked by the way he sees the
others behaving, and a more seasoned agent, Lin, tells him that she
understands how he feels, but he shouldn't judge the others for their
seemingly flippant behavior. Truman, however, continues to question
Hadley and Sitterson about the proceedings; Truman thinks it's unfair,
although they all seem to understand that what is going on is of the
utmost importance.
At the cabin, everyone goes into the living
room and starts drinking. Marty continues to smoke the pot he brought.
They're all getting pretty tanked and start to play Truth or Dare. Jules
is dared to make out with a wolf head mounted on the wall. Then it's
Dana's turn. She chooses dare when the door to the basement flies open,
startling them all. They dare her to go down into the basement. She does
and the rest of them follow. There is a ton of really strange stuff
down there. Dana picks up a diary. Curt chooses a puzzle ball and tries
to open it. Jules likes a wedding dress and starts to put on the
necklace that goes with it. Marty is looking at a conch shell and Holden
is mesmerized by a child's jewelry box that opens to reveal a dancing
ballerina when, all of a sudden...
...the people at the facility are quiet and on the edge of their seats...
...Dana
says "Hey guys! Listen to this." Everyone else puts down what they were
looking at and walks over to her. The diary belonged to a young girl
who was brutally beaten by her father. There is something about how they
will all return once someone reads some latin words at the end of the
diary. Marty says they shouldn't read it. He hears a voice tell Dana to
read it. No one else seems to hear it. Against the advice of Marty, Dana
reads the latin and somewhere outside, the family from the diary
returns from their graves all zombie-fied.
At the facility, it
turns out that maintenance and the new intern have won the pool with
their selection of Redneck Zombies. Hadley is really bummed he won't get
to see a mer-man.
The group goes back to the living room to
continue drinking, etc. Jules and Curt are acting out of character.
Jules is dancing very suggestively in front of the fire, Curt is being
aggressive and insulting about his girlfriend. Marty notices this but
his concerns are brushed off by the others. Curt and Jules decide to go
for a walk. Thanks to some pheromone fog, they start to have sex in the
woods but they are stopped by the zombies. Jules is then stabbed in the
hand but Curt saves her. He is stabbed in the shoulder but survives.
Jules is recaptured and beheaded while Curt watches. He gets away and
runs back to the cabin.
As Jules dies, Hadley and Sitterson
recite what seems to be a prayer. Hadley pulls a lever and blood runs
into a grooved stone tablet that contains the outline of a figure. The
ground starts to shake.
Marty hears a voice in his head and goes
outside to see Curt running towards him, fighting off a zombie, they
both run inside and lock the door. Curt tells everyone that Jules is
dead. They decide to barricade the house and stick together. Courtesy of
the facility, a voice tells them to split up but only Marty consciously
hears it. He begs the others not to split up but no one listens and
Dana, Holden and Marty each go into their own rooms. The doors promptly
lock behind them.
No one at the facility can figure out why their
tricks aren't working on Marty. He's not following the plan, he can
hear the voices, etc. They're worried he's going to ruin everything. In
Marty's room, he gets startled and breaks a lamp. He pics it up and
finds a camera. This is proving everything he's been saying about this
place. He's just about to investigate further when a zombie comes
through the window and pulls him outside. They struggle. Marty is
stabbed in the back and dragged out of site. Bad noises follow. Poor
Marty.
People at the facility are relieved that Marty won't be
ruining their plan. However, they're still investigating to see why
their drugs didn't work on him. They determine that when they were
lacing his pot with their drugs, they missed one of his stashes and what
he was smoking was making him immune to their tricks. Blood runs into
the outline of the reveler. The ground shakes.
Dana is having
trouble in her room because a zombie is trying to break through her
window. Hearing this in the next room, Holden breaks the glass between
their rooms and pulls her into his. They find a door in the floor that
leads to another room in the basement. It appears that this is the room
where the father beat and tortured the girl from the diary. They try to
find a way out but the door won't open. Just then, one of the zombies
finds them and stabs Holden in the back. Dana stabs the zombie
repeatedly just as Curt opens the door from the other side.
The three of them get in the RV. The door closes and a bloody hand print is seen on the outside of it.
As
they head toward the tunnel, Hadley realizes that the demolition crew
never set off the explosion that causes the tunnel to cave in and block
their exit. As the trio frantically tries to get away, Hadley and
Sitterson are just as frantically trying to correct this oversight.
The
RV makes it halfway through the tunnel when it starts to cave in. They
reverse back the way they came and make it out just in time. Curt has a
dirt bike in the back of the RV and he decides to jump the ravine and go
get help. Like the bird, he hits the invisible barrier and dies. (Blood
runs into the outline of the Jock)
Dana and Holden saw what
happened and realize that Marty was right all along. They head back
towards the cabin trying to figure a way out. Holden is stabbed through
the head (outline of the scholar) and the RV crashes into the lake.
Turns out there was a zombie in the RV. She fights off the zombie and
gets out through the overhead hatch and swims to the surface. She makes
it onto the pier when the zombie comes up from the water and starts
beating the crap out of her.
Back at the facility, they are
celebrating a successful night. Evidently, the "virgin" doesn't have to
die for the plan to be successful. This is extremely important since all
of the other sites (Japan, Germany, etc) have failed. They open a
bottle of champagne and start drinking. The RED phone rings. Hadley
answers. A tense conversation follows. Apparently, the rules weren't
followed. One of the others is still alive. If Dana dies first, they
will lose.
Dana is still getting the crap kicked out of her by
the zombie dad. Marty comes out of nowhere and beats the zombie with his
giant bong until he falls into the water. He grabs Dana and they start
running into the woods. The zombies are after them. He jumps into one of
the graves the zombies came out of and starts digging. Dana can't
figure out what's going on. Suddenly, Marty opens a door and they fall
into a room right before the zombies grab them.
Marty tells Dana
that this was all set up. He's discovered an access panel and started
playing with the wires inside; this is why the tunnel never exploded
when it was supposed to. Marty shows Dana an elevator and deduces that
someone sent the zombies to attack them. She's not sure about getting in
the elevator, but they don't have any other options. Through the glass
window of their elevator, Dana and Marty can see many other elevators
that contain supernatural creatures connected to the strange items in
the basement of the cabin. The Sugar Plum Fairy, the Puzzle Ball, the
doll faces, the killer bride, etc.. Dana recognizes the connection and
deduces that the group "chose" the means of their own deaths, meaning
the zombies.
Meanwhile, the observers are in an uproar over the
fact that Dana and Marty have penetrated their facility. Specifically,
they are trying to kill Marty in order to preserve the intended order of
their deaths. Pinpointing the elevator number, an armed guard is sent
to them and instructed to kill both of them, Marty first, but he fails
when a disembodied zombie corpse in the elevator distracts him. Dana and
Marty kill him and move out into the hallway. A female voice speaks to
them over a PA system, sympathizing with them for their predicament, but
insisting that Dana and Marty must die. More armed guards show up and
start firing on them, and they run into what looks like a control room
and hide. Dana realizes that there is a control panel that monitors
access to the elevators containing the monsters. As they are being
attacked by soldiers with machine guns and other artillery, they
randomly start to push buttons; Dana finds a large one that says "PURGE
SYSTEM", and suddenly alarms start going off all over the facility. The
guards all pause in terror, then all of the elevators open while monster
after monster emerges. The soldiers are massacred and the monsters are
getting into all areas of the facility, slaughtering the workers. Marty
and Dana are cornered by monsters, but they climb through a hole where
one of the walls was smashed in during the carnage.
In the room
where the main facility characters have all been operating, Hadley, Lin,
and Truman are all killed by monsters. Hadley finally gets to see his
mer-man right before it kills him. Sitterson manages to activate an
escape hatch and emerges into a stone hallway, but he is fatally stabbed
by Dana; this is where Dana and Marty have ended up as well. Before
Sitterson dies, he tells Dana, "Kill him." Dana is afraid to go on, but
Marty gives her a gun he took from a dead guard. They end up in the room
with all of the character outlines. Dana realizes that there are five
stone tablets, one for each of them--Dana, Marty, Holden, Curt, and
Jules. Everything that's happened to them has been part of a ritual
sacrifice. The Director appears; they recognize her voice because it's
the same voice that spoke to them over the PA system. She explains about
the facility and their purpose. She says the ritual is older than
anything known to man; even she and her peers aren't sure of everything,
but the ritual is conducted worldwide in order to appease "The Dark
Gods" who once ruled the Earth. She says the monsters they've seen are
nothing compared to them, and both Dana and Marty realize they are
standing over a pit that leads to where the old Gods are sleeping. The
Director explains that the ritual is meant to keep them dormant, and
must have specific guidelines; the whore dies first (Jules), and after
that, four more archetypes: the scholar, the athlete, the fool, and the
virgin. The order of their deaths doesn't matter as long as the virgin
is the last one alive. She then says it is up to the gods if the virgin
(Dana) lives. All of this is done as a sacrifice to the old Gods. If the
sacrifice is not completed, they will come above the surface and
destroy mankind. The Director says Marty must die to save the world.
Marty says that if a bloodthirsty ritual is required to save mankind,
then maybe mankind isn't worth saving. Marty is hurt when Dana raises
the gun to kill him; she is conflicted, but she doesn't want the world
to end. Without warning, Dana is attacked by a werewolf, which proceeds
to viciously maul her. When she drops the gun, Marty picks it up and
fires on the werewolf and it runs off, wounded. The Director tries to
kill Marty, but the zombie girl from the diary appears and kills the
Director and they both fall into the pit with the Gods. Dana and Marty
make up and smoke a joint while they contemplate the end of the world.
The ground shakes and starts to crack open.
The cabin in the
woods starts shaking when a giant hand comes crashing up through it and
slams down on the ground in front of it as the first of the old Gods
begins his climb to the surface.
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