Jordan is a 21 year old girl in her last year of University.
She is stressed from the deadlines and amount of work she has to do, but she is
very smart and capable. Her housemates, Zoey and James are coupled up, and not
making life at home easy. Her best friend Tom is also madly in love with
Jordan, and would do anything for her.
One night before an important exam, Jordan is desperately
trying to cram in as much revision as possible, but is rudely interrupted by
the sounds of her housemates making love. To clear her head she goes for a walk
around the city, and is convinced she hears footsteps following behind her. It’s
raining, so in a puddle she sees a dark shadow following her.
She returns home to find Zoey and James in the kitchen
cooking dinner, with music blaring on the speakers. Stressed she shouts at them
and goes to bed for an early night’s sleep.
The morning Jordan enters the kitchen to find Zoey and James’
corpses on the kitchen floor, with blood everywhere, and the knife they were
using to prepare their dinner with stuck in Zoey’s back. Convinced it was done
by whoever she saw following her home, she tries to tell the police, who then
start a manhunt.
Jordan tries to forget the ordeal and tries to get life back
to normal at University. Sitting in her lecture, she sees a dark silhouette of
a person sitting at the back, and is convinced they are staring at her.
Stressed from the workload, she falls asleep, and has a nightmare about her
tutor being slaughtered. She leaves the lecture late and follows behind her
tutor, watching as he gets into his car.
That night she sees on the news whilst with her friend Tom
about her tutor dying in a car accident after someone cut his brakes. She
becomes increasingly paranoid and is convinced someone is after her and anyone
she knows. She tells her worries to Tom, who appears to listen, but the next
day signs Jordan up to a psychiatrist. Next we see Jordan at the psychiatrist,
starting to look tired and more stressed, telling the psychiatrist about how
she sees someone following her before the murders. She is confused when Dr.
Cooper asks if she’s seen this man’s face, and answers that ‘No, just his
shadow.’
That night, angry at Tom for making her see a psychiatrist,
she has a nightmare about him being slaughtered, but wakes up in the middle of
the night, panicked from it. She can’t sleep, and desperate to hear from Tom,
she calls him up. He tells her he is on his way to see her. In hysterics, she
sits on the sofa and waits, but hears a door slam in the apartment. Convinced
she is not alone, she hides in the airing cupboard, and listens. She keeps
hearing doors slam through the apartment and sees a shadow pass under the door.
We hear a timer on the boiler clicking slowly as she puts her hand over her
mouth to silence her crying. Suddenly the door slams open and Tom is there. He
pulls her out and holds her close as she cries into his shoulder. They fall
asleep on the sofa together, and she wakes up, stands over him as he sleeps,
looking distracted, and walks to the bathroom. She tries to clean her face in
the mirror after her crying, but she is so emotionally drained it makes no
difference. As she looks down into the sink, her reflection in the mirror
continues to stare at her. Seeing a dark shadow pass by the bathroom door she
returns to Tom’s side and falls asleep on his lap.
The screen is blacked out,
but we hear Jordan whispering, and then muttering something angrily under her
breath, we assume she is having a night terror again. Suddenly her eyes jump
open, and we see an extreme close up of her eyes. As we slowly zoom out, we see
she is covered in blood. Panicking she sits up and looks down at her bloody clothes and hands. In one of her
hands she is holding a knife. She doesn’t feel hurt, and then remembers Tom. He
isn’t on the sofa with her, so screaming his name she runs around the
apartment. She finds his body in the bath where he is sitting in his own blood.
Jordan falls to the floor in tears. As she does her shadow doesn’t move from it’s
position. She looks up and her eyes are black. She then smiles into the camera.
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