The family (mum, dad and their teenage son and daughter) move
into a new house and it’s a typical happy fresh start for the family. At some
point the mum asks her son to take some boxes up to the attic, he finds that
there are already some boxes there and goes through them- he finds a music box
and intrigued, opens it, the music starts to play and he gets a headache and
appears to be thrown back by something- he becomes possessed. He returns
downstairs after passing out in the attic and waking up unaware of what
happened, we get a shot of the music box open and playing- throughout the film
the music box music plays at times of horror so the audience can identify with
it and know what’s going to happen. The brother and his sister
argue like most siblings and they argue the next morning.
MIDDLE
The next few days are
normal aside from a few lights flickering in the girl’s room which she just
puts down to her lamp being broken. The boy begins to look unwell and every time
he is asked about it he gets really angry. At some point it is mentioned that
the cleaner is ill and due to start next week because of this. The sister
becomes very haunted as she tries to sleep- she hears noises, footsteps, lights
flicker and doors slam etc. meanwhile her brother appears in some kind of
trance as he sits upright smiling in his bed at his sister being terrified. The
next day she asks her brother if anything has been happening to him and when he
says no she asks him if he was trying to scare her- he gets very angry and
tries to attack her, the cleaner walks in and he suddenly turns on her, angrier
than before- the sister manages to get him off of her and he manages to think
as himself not as the ghost that is possessing him. He apologises and the cleaner
introduces herself as Katie Smith, she leaves as she was hurt when she was
practically attacked. The sister calls her friend on skype and says that she
thinks there is something wrong with her brother- he looks ill and strange
things have been happening to her and not him. She suggests that he may be
possessed and remembers an article she read - to see if someone is possessed
you can take a picture of them and it shows a ghost around/in them. She tells
her mum and dad but they don’t believe her and say that she’s been watching too
many scary films, they agree that he looks ill though and take him to the
doctor who says that he can’t tell what’s wrong with him but he expects that it’s
just a virus so he sends them hope and tells him to rest. She tries the photo
trick and it works. She is terrified and in despair as no one will listen to
her so she cries until she hears a child laughing. She is startled and see’s ‘come
to the attic’ on her mirror. So she does and finds the music box which is open
and playing she looks at it in more detail and sees the name ‘Catherine Smith’
on the bottom of it. Desperate to find something out, she searches this name in
google along with the house address and finds that a fire destroyed the house
that was on the land before the current one was built, the fire killed a little
girl, the younger step sister of Catherine Smith who inadvertently started the
fire by lighting a candle when there was a power cut. She recognises the name
Catherine Smith but she doesn’t remember where from but she suspects that the
ghost who possessed her brother is the little girl who died in the fire, but
why? The cleaner has returned and asks her how her brother is.
BACK STORY
She suddenly
remembers that the cleaner is called Katie Smith- she is Catherine. She confronts
her about this and, after denying it for a while she realises that her sister
has taken of the boy’s body and he is in danger so she confesses. When she was
little her mum died and gave her the music box, her dad remarried and she got a
step-sister who she never really liked as she got more attention and she missed
her mum so much. She lit the candle when there was a power cut and put it in
her and her sister’s room which her sister was in, the candle must have fallen
over and the room set fire but she didn’t know about it because she was
downstairs until she smelt burning and it was too late and she stood at the doorway
to the bedroom and watched her sister die before she could save her and could
get help.
After the accident and the
house was rebuilt and she lived there with her dad who was now divorced after
his wife left him because she couldn’t stand to be around Catherine who lit the
candle. Catherine experienced the same sort of things that the girl experienced
and was haunted by the ghost of her sister which she realised after some time.
She purchased a book on her possession and found out how to seal a ghost in an
object and found that ghosts normally haunt people because they are trying to
get revenge. She realised that her step sister must have been trying to get
revenge because Catherine couldn’t save her in time. She sealed the spirit in
the music box and hid it in the attic, she became the cleaner so that she could
keep an eye on the house and the music box to make sure that no one open it but
while she was ill and not working there, she couldn’t monitor the attic.
END
She tried to re-seal the
spirit in the music box the same way that she did before and she manages to do
so, or so she thinks- until at the end of the film when everything returns to
normal and the boy is fine again, we see the music box filing open and the
music starts to play.
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