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            The film Opens with Dr. Jane Mathis (Vanessa Shaw), a trauma psychiatrist, working late into the evening hours (with Holiday music playing in the background) calling in prescription updates and performing patient checkup calls. Alone in her building, she sees the clock approaching midnight and goes to brew a pot of coffee when she hears a loud crashing sound from down the hall. She walks into the waiting room to see her patient, Nora (India Eisley), cutting her own wrists and hands with a shard of glass. Nora tells Mathis that she "Did what she told her to do..." and that she was wrong, then proceeds to attack Mathis with the shard of glass and then slits her own throat.
Fast forward two years. The scene opens with Dr. Mathis, apparently still dealing with the trauma of the attack, sitting in her car outside of her own therapist's office taking a prescription pill with coffee. She is seeing a friend and fellow therapist, Terry (William Atherton), to recover from the event, but her sessions are void of true emotion and guarded. She expresses to Terry that she wants to resume helping people who are recovering from traumatic events but then confesses that she is not ready to "go see Nora" yet (which tells the viewer that Nora is not dead) and then changes the subject. She also mentions that she's began a relationship which seems to impress Terry.
Mathis sees quite a few patients in her home, but not those suffering from Trauma. The montage that presumes shows a bored and disconnected Mathis with her patients, doodling on her notepad rather than making notes and being frustrated with the lack of stimulation. One patient in particular glances at her prescription pad on the coffee table and requests something for anxiety. She tells the patient to try a few more sessions before she is willing to write a prescription (insinuating that she is now against prescribing meds to her patients). A new patient, who identifies himself simply as Alex, calls Dr. Mathis and begs her take him on as a post trauma patient and she agrees. That evening she self-medicates (notably not needing the water that she had turned the facet on in the bathroom to swallow) and goes to bed with the TV on. She awakes in the middle of the night to a crashing sound outside and goes to investigate. She discovers her trash can pushed over and while picking up the contents sees the bushes outside her house rustle. Walking towards the bushes to see the cause a figure flashes by and footsteps are heard running off, away from the house. She resumes cleaning up the spilled trash. Over her shoulder, Nora appears on the porch behind her but Mathis doesn't see her. She is gone when Mathis turns around and re-enters her home.
Alex shows up to Jane's house for his first session, commenting on how he appreciates her lack of holiday decor. His face is terribly disfigured and he expresses frustration with his previous therapists and psychiatrists in general and that he doesn't see himself when he looks in the mirror. Alex states that he'd like something for his anxiety but Mathis refuses to prescribe him anything stating that drugs make things worse and that she isn't like the others and cares about the patients first. She states that she believes talking and exposing the issues that are affecting her patients helps the most.
Later (presumably the next day) Jane and her friend Clara(Sydney Tamiia Poitier) go for a jog and Jane sees Nora in the woods along the side of her trail and becomes unnerved. Later Clara expresses to Jane that she's happy that Jane has resumed their jogging routine and states she's proud of her for her progress. The camera pans out and you see the two conversing from behind a tree, as if they are being watched, and can hear labored breathing. Later that evening Jane is home eating dinner with her boyfriend Miles (Aaron Stanford), a police officer, when he notices that she isn't eating. She blames the time of year but is remembering the scene in the woods in her mind during the discussion and the two joke about therapy to get work off their brains.
Alex returns for a visit and explains that while shopping one day a child stared at him and made him feel like a freak. Alex talks about receiving a new face and how he doesn't feel like himself. Dr. Mathis tells him he needs "exposure therapy" to return to the accident and confront what happened to him. Alex tells Mathis he was on his way from work when he came upon a vehicle that had crashed but then states his memory is fractured and has a panic attack, failing to revisit the entire event. Dr. Mathis brings him out of the attack and teaches him a breathing exercise to use when he has attacks.
Mathis re-tells a nightmare she had to Terry on her next visit about Nora and explains that when she work up, she felt, "heavy". Terry questions her about sleep paralysis and offers a script which she declines. He questions Mathis about her lack of progress, telling her that she is keeping something from him. She confesses that she has taken on a trauma patient that had been disfigured a few years ago and Terry reprimands her for taking on such a case. She tells Terry that trauma patients are what she's good at and she feels she's already helping Alex. That night Mathis is lying in bed when she hears crashing sounds from downstairs and calls Miles for help. She investigates to discover a sleepwalking Alex in her home and slaps him to wake him up. She declines to press charges against him but refuses to see Alex anymore as a patient despite his pleas and asks Miles to spend the night with her. She has a dream about Nora's first session where she asks if anyone would know that she was seeing her as a patient (which Mathis assures her that no one would) and then wakes up in an episode of sleep paralysis. This startles Miles, which Jane then explains and that she's ok, however for the remainder of the evening Jane fails to sleep and has flashbacks of the incident with Nora.
No longer seeing Alex, Jane resumes therapy with her other patients (as well as her seemingly frustrated and disconnected disposition to them) until right before Christmas. Miles brings a tree to Jane's house which she and Miles decorate. He tells Jane that she can talk to him about anything and that it isn't going to scare him off. As they share a moment Jane's phone rings with Alex on the line, he tells her that he has taken too many pills and she rushes out to see him. Alex lets her into his home and appears disoriented from taking too many sleeping pills. He tells Mathis that he doesn't want to "live like this" and that he "keeps thinking about her" and then passes out. Mathis gives Alex a shot which brings him to consciousness but also makes him ill. He begs Mathis to not give up on him and assumedly she agrees as they resume sessions. The next session he tells Mathis the breathing exercises are helping and admits he had taken the pills in an attempt to commit suicide and not just to sleep. They attempt to relive the accident but Alex stops. Mathis comes close to telling him about Nora but stops herself and Alex storms out mid-session. That evening Mathis later takes more pills while drinking a glass of wine when Alex calls and apologizes for storming out. They agree to have another session the following week. That evening Nora shows up at Mathis's house, luring her outside, then entering the house and turning on her Christmas music before running off. Mathis then visits the mental institution where Nora had been held and she was advised that Nora had been released. The Dr. at the hospital tells Mathis that Nora's father died a couple years ago so there was no one to notify that she had been released. Mathis watches a video of Nora's sessions where she tells the physician there that the night she had broken into Mathis's office she had confronted her abuser and describes what presumably was an additional rape by him.In Alex's next session Dr. Mathis tells Alex about Nora and why she doesn't prescribe drugs then they revisit Alex's the accident and he tells Dr. Mathis that he had stopped to pull two people out of a wrecked car when he was hit by a vehicle and that his daughter was in his own car when he had stopped, that she'd be alive if it wasn't for the fact that he had stopped to help with the wreck. The two cry and comfort each other.
That night Jane is trying to sleep and cannot, she goes through her bathroom cabinets and finds several empty boxes of meds (presumably to have taken them all) and is left with insomnia. While in the kitchen getting a snack she hears a noise and finds a window open with blood on it. She returns to her bedroom to see blood soaked all over her bed and calls the police (and Miles). They come and review her surveillance system in her home and discover it has been tampered with, several hours time having been deleted. Upon her next visit to Terry she expresses concern that she is afraid and hasn't been sleeping. Terry advises her to stay with him but she declines stating that she will be staying with Clara and asks for a glass of water. While Terry is in the other room Jane rips several prescription papers from Terry's prescription pad. She doesn't go to Clara's, but returns home with several prescriptions in hand to find an oblivious Alex on her front porch. She becomes agitated with Terry and advises him that she is not seeing patients. He states he was in the neighborhood and thought he'd visit, feeling that they had made a connection. She recommends Alex to Terry and goes inside, taking her prescriptions and then lies down on the couch, checking her cell phone to see several missed calls from Miles. She falls asleep. Sometime later, she has a nightmare that Nora is in her home attacking her, she awakes to find her lamp knocked over, the light flickering and Norma actually in her home. They have a scuffle in the kitchen and she plunges a cork screw into Norma's skull, killing her.
Sometime later she awakes in the same mental hospital that Nora had been held in, cuffed to the bed and seemingly unaware of her surroundings. She sees the attending physician that Nora had seen and Terry (who has come on her behalf). Terry tells her that her blood tests had come back and he asks her how long she had been taking prescriptions from his pad in which she responds with an apology. They show her the surveillance video of the evening in which she had killed Nora, where she discovers she had actually killed Miles (who had come to her home to check on her in response to all of her missed calls). Her Dr. tells her that Nora was found that day, having hung herself in her apartment.
Clara visits Nora in the hospital. When she gets into her car she is stunned by someone in the back seat. Meanwhile in the hospital Jane is having hallucinations and nightmares now about both Nora and Miles. In her next session she tells her Dr. that Nora drugged her and that she didn't drug herself and kill Miles. The Dr. responds with a recant of Nora's story about her treatment there and what she thought and didn't think. During his recant he re-mentions that she was "convinced" her father was dead, that SHE had killed him. In answering Jane's inquiry he admits that he had spoken to Nora's father and that he was paying for her treatment. She asks what Nora had done to her father, to his face, and he asks her how she knew? She realizes that Alex is both Nora's abuser and her father, and escapes from the hospital. When she reaches the parking lot she is electrocuted.
Jane comes to, tied up in her home with Alex interrogating her. He admits that HE was the one who snuck into her home and drugged her, causing her to hallucinate and kill Miles. Admitting that he wasn't actually injured in his car accident but that it was Nora who had cut up his face the night she broke into Jane's office and tried to commit suicide. He admits that he was Nora's abuser, blaming Mathis for the fact that Nora realized that he was her abuser and causing her to confront him Christmas eve two years prior and that the car accident was on purpose to cover up how he had initially been injured. He faked his own death to disassociate himself with Dora's case so that he could seek revenge on Mathis. Mathis frees her hands from the ropes and stabs Alex in the neck with an ornament from the tree. She's tied in and gets away upstairs where she finds the bodies of Terry and Clara. Alex talks to her through the door and breaks into the room. They fight and she escapes through the window, disfiguring Alex's face again with her fingernails as she falls the first floor.
She comes to on the lawn and re-enters the house to find Alex's lifeless body seated on the couch having succumb to his neck wound.
    

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            The film opens as single mother Madison sleeps in front of her laptop computer which is open on a webpage concerning filing for bankruptcy. Awoken by strange noises, she checks the interior of the house and sees both of her young children - Jacob and Haley - are fast asleep. After returning downstairs, a grotesque human-like apparition appears and slowly approaches her. As Madison closes her eyes she repeats to herself that it's not real and moments later the creature is gone.The next day, two paranormal investigators do a sweep of the house and hurriedly leave when one seems to capture something terrifying on their EVP device. Jacob and Haley return home from summer camp shortly afterwards and a social worker arrives to see Jacob. The counselor sits with the him and discusses his anger issues which have become a concern following an incident where Jacob beat another boy unconscious. Believing his inability to control his anger stems from guilt surrounding his father's sudden departure, the counselor suggests he writes a letter to him as an exercise in taking responsibility.As the paranormal activities within the house continue to occur more frequently, Madison juggles dealing with them as well as her financial issues and a budding relationship with Jacob's science teacher/camp counselor Nikolai. One day, while out in the garden, Madison is approached by a man named Austin Hamilton claiming to represent a company that's interested in buying her property. He assures her that they're willing to pay a substantial amount that's well over the market value and when Madison asks why he only reveals that her land is critical to their "future plans". When Madison tells Hamilton she'll consider it, he gives her his card and says he'll expect to hear from her soon.At the summer camp, a bully named Danny picks on Haley and when he refuses to stop when Jacob intervenes, a fight ensues - Jacob breaking Danny's nose. Furious, Madison chastises her son when they return home and even though she understands he was protecting his sister she tries to make him understand that he cannot keep losing control of his emotions.Later that night, Nikolai comes over to the house for dinner and wine and the two talk briefly about their lives before meeting one another. Madison mentions her former husband's anger issues and how she eventually had had enough - asking him to leave, while Nikolai recalls his past job where he didn't agree with his colleagues' methods and was forced to resign. The two make love and Madison indirectly asks Nikolai to leave as opposed to spending the night.As the family sleeps, objects begin to levitate in Haley's room and a pair of bloodied arms extend down from Jacob's ceiling. Awoken by her son's screams, Madison enters his room to find the apparition gone but suddenly a ghostly bald man dressed in white appears and chases the three throughout the house. Almost appearing to be a hologram, the apparition passes through floors and walls and when it attempts to grab Jacob and Haley it leaves burns on their arms. When Madison and her children attempt to leave the house, Jacob falls unconscious just beyond the front door and Haley is soon to follow. As Madison calls 911 for help and brings the children back inside she hangs up when both Jacob and Haley recover as if nothing is wrong with them.The following day, Madison calls a doctor to come to the house and run a series of tests on her kids - only finding them to be perfectly healthy. When she expresses confusion and refuses to believe that there's nothing wrong with them the doctor promises to run more tests when he returns to the lab but also suggests that the affliction could be psychosomatic.Unsatisfied with the doctor's results, Madison begins to search online for answers - coming across a single case where a scientist could not leave his laboratory for months after conducting experiments with a proton accelerator.Hamilton arrives at the house and continues to put pressure on Madison to sell her property as soon as possible. Believing that she cannot leave due to whatever is afflicting her children, she tells him to give her some more time before starting the paperwork. When Hamilton makes a reference to the fact that her finances are in dire straits, Madison claims harassment and says that she's only one month behind in her mortgage anyways. Hamilton snidely replies by saying that his company, which owns the mortgage agreement, decides how late she is and that foreclosure would not be a desirable situation to be in.After turning Hamilton away, Madison hears a knock on the front door and angrily opens it thinking that the man is refusing to leave her be - instead finding Nikolai. Nikolai greets her and tells her he came to check up on her as he hadn't seen or heard from her for some time. Madison then proceeds to give Nikolai the "it's not you, it's me" break-up speech - insisting that there's something she's dealing with that he can't know about and it would be better if they stopped seeing one another. Confused and heartbroken, Nikolai slowly walks away.Inside the house, a disfigured and bloody creature emerges from the dryer and crawls towards Madison who's inexplicably locked into the laundry room. Once she's finally able to force the door open, she huddles in fear with Jacob and Haley as the apparition gets closer and closer. Hearing the screams, Nikolai bursts in and sees the creature before it suddenly disappears in a bright flash of light.Her dark secret revealed, Madison tries to explain to Nikolai the paranormal events that have been plaguing them and attempts to answer his questions regarding when they happen and what kinds of things occur before, during, and afterwards. His scientific curiosity piqued and wanting to help, Nikolai resolves to stay at the home to try and figure out what's actually happening.Contacting a former colleague, Nikolai retrieves equipment to capture and study these paranormal activities while Madison and Jacob meet with his counselor who's disappointed to find that he's engaged in another fight. As the counselor and Madison talk privately, the social worker warns that if Jacob can't get control of his anger soon and continues his violent actions the possibility of keeping him out of juvenile detention is becoming less likely. She also suggests that Madison seek legal counsel as Danny's parents will likely press charges.As Nikolai, Madison, and the kids play Monopoly that night their fun is cut short when the dice begin to levitate - signalling the impending arrival of one of the apparitions. Sure enough, the man in white appears and chases the group through the house, blinking in and out of existence. At one point Madison strikes the man with a chair which breaks upon him and afterwards slams a door on his fingers and severs them - causing him to cry out in a pain before disappearing once more.The severed fingers left behind, things become more mysterious as now they know that not only can they hurt this apparition but he may not be a ghost at all.The next day Madison reviews video footage from the previous night's events while Nikolai and Jacob analyze audio recordings. When Madison zooms in on the man in white's shirt she recognizes a logo that also appears on Hamilton's business card - a logo belonging to a company named CamSET. Going back to the article about the scientist who couldn't leave his lab, she finds that he worked for CamSET and was a part of a team involved in a "Project ECHO". Sleuthing further, Madison not only discovers that "Project ECHO" was a series of experiments regarding teleportation that was shut down when they were found to be using human test subjects, but that also Nikolai was a part of the group.Confronting Nikolai about his involvement, he swears to Madison that he resigned from the project when they first started using criminals as test subjects. When Madison shows the video still of the man in white's shirt and the logo upon it, Nikolai expresses confusion and disbelief as it seemed that viable teleportation was still thirty or forty years away when he resigned.Believing that CamSET is trying to scare them off the property they desperately want, Madison resolves to fight back by killing the man in white and hopefully stopping these "paranormal activities" once and for all. Making a series of improvised weapons and setting traps, the group awaits the inevitable return of the "ghost" that night.When he eventually begins to appear, Madison hides Jacob and Haley in the basement while Nikolai attempts to distract the "apparition". As this occurs, Hamilton arrives at the house and relentlessly bangs on the front door. Suddenly, the door flies open and Hamilton is dragged inside by the man in white and savagely attacked. As Hamilton, mortally wounded, crawls from the house he places a call to the police before succumbing to his wounds.As Madison and Nikolai go on the offensive, they manage to wound the man in white several times but he continues to pursue them. Eventually, Nikolai is hurt but the "ghost" falls into a trap and he and Madison return to the house. Two police officers soon arrive and investigate - coming across Nikolai and Madison, the latter leading them into the basement to retrieve Jacob and Haley.When Nikolai realizes that the man in white is no longer stuck in the trap he appears out of thin air and slits one officer's throat with a knife before knocking Nikolai unconscious and breaking the neck of the second policeman. As the "ghost" approaches Madison and her children in the basement he hesitates when he sees various objects (a baseball glove, a picture, a science fair volcano, etc) strewn about.Taking advantage of this, Madison lunges at the man but he stabs her in the stomach and she falls to the ground. As Jacob approaches him he slashes the boy across the face and Madison watches as a long scar begins to form on the man in white's face. Nikolai comes to and shoots the "ghost" - appearing to kill him.As the group huddles around a dying Madison, Nikolai attempts to stop the bleeding from her wound but seemingly to no avail. Knowing that the man in white will be teleported back to wherever he came from she curls up next to him and disappears in a flash of light.Now in the future, we see two men escorting the man in white to be teleported back in time - one of the men explaining that this particular "subject" proved to be more resilient than his predecessors despite having his brain "scrambled". When the other asks where they got the man, he explains that he was taken prisoner after attempting to bomb CamSET's facilities in revenge for his mother's death.Madison awakens in a bright-lit room next to her older son - the man in white - as scientists sound an alarm.Back in the present, more police officers arrive and begin searching the house and recovering dead bodies. In a flash of light, Madison reappears, alive and healthy, and embraces Jacob as the film ends.
    

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