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Filmed entirely with POV shots, we see monsters attack a high school graduation party, at least according to one shy girl. But can her vision be trusted?
SYNOPSIS:
We see everything through the eyes of Wendy, an unsocial and introverted graduating high school student. Wendy was walking down the street with her older sister Rebecca, when Rebecca was suddenly struck and killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver. Rebecca was writing a novel entitled Visions, which was about beings from an alternate dimension observing humanity by taking the visual and auditory information from random people (just like how the audience is seeing and hearing the film through Wendy’s eyes and ears), but her death left it unfinished. One year later, Wendy is going to a high school graduation party hosted by her only friend Carrie. With Carrie’s encouragement, Wendy decides to start talking to her long-time crush Daniel for the first time after admitting her feelings to him a week ago. Daniel is initially confused by Wendy’s shyness, but as they continue to talk, he grows more friendly and understanding. Suddenly, all power and electronics go out, and the entire world outside of the house has suddenly turned into an empty desolate wasteland shrouded in an omnipresent grey fog. Carrie’s boyfriend Jack tries to keep everyone calm, telling everyone to stay together and to start taking inventory of whatever items they can use for survival and rescue. But then horrific, rarely seen monsters (visually inspired by Stephen Gammell’s illustrations in “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”) start attacking the house, horrifically mutilating some of them.
The survivors manage to barricade themselves in the House’s basement. Jack is fatally wounded just as they manage to seal themselves in. Just as Wendy manages to get everyone organized, and when Daniel starts to reciprocate her feelings, Carrie suddenly mutates into one of the creatures. The rest of the teens manage to kill the now monstrous Carrie, but their relief is short-lived because the monsters managed to break into the house while the teens were distracted. Wendy manages to lead a small group of survivors including Daniel out of the house into the desolate outdoors. The survivors run away as far as they could but eventually run into another group of monsters. They fight the monsters and manage to kill all of them. Wendy manages to escape. She suddenly runs through a quarantine tent into a perimeter of ambulances and police. She passes out and is taken to a hospital where she’s told that the house was within a small area of town where an experimental hallucinogenic gas was accidentally released. All the monsters were actually people they were hallucinating to see as monsters, people who were also hallucinating and attacking the teens because they looked like monsters to them too.
After the doctors manage to convince the disbelieving Wendy of this, they give her an injection that they claim is the antidote for the gas. Wendy then briefly reunites with Daniel before the two of them are given a sedative to help the antidote take affect. Wendy wakes up in the middle of the night and finds the hospital seemingly abandoned and without power. Exploring further, she discovers the mutilated corpses of the patients, prompting her to grab a crowbar from a supply closet. She finds Daniel, and the two of them confront one of the doctors. Before turning into one of the monsters himself, the doctor claims that the monsters are other-dimensional beings who have been observing humanity in exactly the same as described in Rebecca’s unfinished novel, and that they are now breaking through into our world by taking over people’s bodies. Wendy and Daniel fight off the monster doctor, but the other doctor then shows up and claims that they are just hallucinating again because the antidote failed. He offers them an improved antidote, which Wendy initially accepts because of this scenario’s similarity to Rebecca’s novel. But Daniel doesn’t buy it and knocks the doctor out before taking Wendy with him in escaping the hospital, only for them to find the gray fog again shrouding everything. Wendy ultimately resolves to make it home and finish Rebecca’s novel for her, regardless of whether all of this is real or not. Daniel resolves to help her despite his growing suspicion, and they promptly see her house in the distance and run toward it.
Wendy and Daniel are then attacked by a group of monsters, and manage to kill them all one by one. But then Daniel transforms into a monster, forcing Wendy to kill him, only for him to suddenly transform back to normal as he dies. The other monster corpses also transform back into the graduation partygoers. Wendy then notices that parts of her body are gradually and horrifically mutating. After slowly shambling towards her house, she finally enters and gets to Rebecca’s room. Opening Rebecca’s computer, Wendy writes nonstop to finish Visions, with her hands gradually becoming more and more visually monstrous. Once Wendy finishes the book and prints it, she looks into the mirror. Upon viewing the horrific visage that she has become, she kills herself. After everything goes black, Wendy wakes up in what may or may not be the afterlife. She sees Carrie, Daniel, Jack, and everyone else from her school having a party in the distance. They beckon for the reluctant Wendy to join them. When she sees Rebecca among them, she hesitantly walks towards the party.