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Overview

Three friends have just been to a party and are driving home through an eerie forest. They are all drunk, including the driver, suddenly they notice a little child in the middle of the road but they do not have enough time to react. They collide with the child and he flies over the roof of the car, the three friends get out of the to go and check on the child he is lying in a pool of blood and it’s quite clear that he is dead. The three start panicking at the thought of what would happen if anyone ever found out. All three decide to not report the accident and leave the kid in the middle of the road. The child comes back to haunt, torment and basically destroy his killer’s life. The child begins to kill off the people who were in the car as well as the driver’s girlfriend leaving the driver till last.

Outline of opening horror sequence

Beginning – Title sequence begins and the name of the movie is displayed on screen.  A close up of a phone is then showed and the cast names are then displayed on the screen of the phone. We then begin to hear multiple voices talking and panicking about something that the audience hasn’t found out about or witnessed yet. The camera then cuts to a small child lying in the middle of the road in a pool of blood.

Middle – The next day the driver of the car arrives at work, he walks to his office and is suddenly stunned, the camera turns to show what the driver is looking at, the child that he killed is sat under his desk staring back at him. The driver blinks and the child isn’t there anymore. The driver sits down at his computer and turns it on, when it loads up the child’s face begins to flash on the screen. He flicks the switch but the computer doesn’t turn off and instead his face stays on screen, flashing on and off. Two of the three friends then learn that their other friend has recently been hung and the driver phones his other friend to talk about it, halfway through the conversation the driver mentions that he has been seeing the child. His friend thinks that he is going mad and tells him to forget about it when suddenly the phone falls to the floor and hangs up.

End – A tone is then heard on the other end of the phone, the driver then gets a call from his friend that just hung up. He answers the phone and on the other end he hears a child talking on the other end and he says ‘’she’s next’’. The driver runs to his car, drives home and runs up the path to his house. He bursts through the door and see’s his girlfriend lying on the floor. He runs over to her to see if she is alive but she is not. He notices a letter on the floor next to his girlfriend and picks it up, he looks up and the child is standing over him. The screen goes black and the movie ends.

Synopsis

Three friends get drunk at a party and attempt to drive home; they hit a kid on the way and leave him in the middle of the road. The next day the driver goes to work and sees the kid under his desk. The driver blinks and the kid is gone. The two friends learn that their other friend has mysteriously died. As they are talking the person on the other end of the phone suddenly goes silent and the driver hears the phone fall to the floor and hangs up. His phone then begins to ring and he notices that it’s his friend’s number; he answers the phone and immediately begins to ask what happened. The kid says ‘’she’s next’’, he runs out of work to his car and drives home. He runs through his front door and notices his girlfriend on the floor. He walks over to her to see if she is still alive but she is not. He notices a note next to her, picks it up, opens it and the kid appears in front of him. The screen then goes black and the movie ends.