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AMUSEMENT

Date Released : 20 Januari 2009
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0476958
Cast : Keir O'Donnell, Katheryn Winnick
Genre : Horror | Thriller

SYNOPSIS
In the opening credits, the audience are shown still pictures of three girls when they were children, as adolescent, and young adults. The girls are Tabitha Wright, Lisa Swan and Shelby Leds. These girls have great potential- "to succeed, be famous, and shine." It also shows a young unnamed boy who is very psychologically disturbed as it clearly states in his psychiatric report, and that he is currently detained.

Shelby
Shelby and her boyfriend Rob are on the highway headed to Cincinnati. On the way there, they join a convoy of vehicles. The convoy decides to pull over for gas. Rob meets the drivers of the two vehicles in the convoy. The driver of the semi tells them that the highway ahead has bad traffic and he can show them an alternate route. While at the car, Shelby sees a woman in the window of the semi who looks scared.

After they are on the road again, Shelby sees the same girl put a "Help Me" sign in the back window of the semi. The girl eventually jumps from the semi and lands on their car. The two cars stop and the driver of the Jeep along with Rob and Shelby get out to help the girl. The semi keeps on driving. Rob gets back in his car and chases the semi to get his plates. The driver ends up cornering Rob and then taking off back down the hill. When Rob gets back to where the others are, the driver of the Jeep says that the semi driver took the girls. They get in the guy's Jeep and chase down the semi to an old house. When they arrive, the driver of the Jeep says he wants to go first to try and stop the semi driver.

Meanwhile, Rob waits in the Jeep and hears a noise. He finds a cb-radio in the center console, and hears another noise in the back seat. He turns and sees movement under a tarp. He removes the tarp only to find the two girls bound and gagged. Then, after bashing the skull of the semi driver, the driver of the Jeep comes back laughing and breaks the window of the Jeep and attacks Rob.

Tabitha
Tabitha is in front of a big house which is later revealed as her aunt's. She goes in and finds her two cousins; Max and Danny. She asks the boys where the babysitter is and they say that she had already left. Later that evening, once the boys are in bed, Tabitha hears a knock on the door. She heads over to see who it is, but does not know as the person is wearing a hooded-raincoat. Tabitha asks who he is and the man tells her that he is the babysitter boyfriend, Owen, and that she missed cheerleading practice and is growing worried. Tabitha admits that the babysitter had already left, but that she knows nothing else.

After that, Tabitha goes into the guest bedroom upstairs and sees that the entire room is decorated with clown toys. She looks around and sees a life-size one that she finds a bit creepy. She goes to bed, but the thunderstorm wakes her up. Still spooked by the clown, she turns around with the back of her head facing the it so she won't be able to see. Unbeknownst to her after she had turned away, the clown's head turns to see her. Later, the phone rings. Tabitha walks to answer, not knowing that the clown had been watching her all along. The caller is her aunt, checking on the children. Tabitha tells her that she 'likes' her new house but admits that she is a bit spooked by the clown - the big one. Her aunt states that she does not own any life-sized clown toy. Tabitha looks in the room and sees the empty rocking-chair moving. Terrified, she slips into the boys room and locks it. Tabitha whispering to them to wake up and tells them to hide, as a very bad man is in the house. The boys say that it is just Owen, wanting to play.

After the older boy says that Owen just wants to have fun, triple-blade spikes go through the door several times and misses stabbing Tabitha by inches. She pulls their dresser against the door, and gets the boys out by the window and tells them to go to their neighbor's house and get help. The clown breaks the dresser and reaches out for Tabitha. She throws a lamp at him and climbs out of the window. The clown stands up and attempt to stab her but misses. Tabitha falls down and runs to the shed. She opens a closet where she finds the babysitter's corpse. As the dead body falls pinning her down, the clown enters the room laughing with a knife and the scene ends.

The scene cuts to Tabitha in a police interrogation room, appearing disoriented and in shock. A therapist comes in to talk with her. She asks her about her friends; Lisa. Tabitha then starts having flashbacks to memories of her friends when they were still kids. The girls were showing off their art out of a shoebox with a peephole. In the interior, their creative decoration varied. Tabitha's was a room full of clowns, Shelby's was a farm with a 65 km/ph speed limit road sign, and Lisa's was a sleepover with three dolls. The young Tabitha then looks at the boy's art, and sees a rat being chained up, with its skin open. The boy states, "It's funny, right?" To which she replied, "No.... it isn't."

Lisa
Lisa is with her boyfriend Dan looking for her roommate, Cat, who had disappeared the night before. They go to an old hotel that Cat said she will be at. Lisa tries to get in but failed. She then goes to her Dan and asks if he can make up something to get in. He says that he is a health inspector. He then goes in the place and finds a music player. The man says that there is a surprise in the end, which is a knife flying out of the speakers, stabbing him in the eye.

After dark and many unanswered calls, Lisa impatiently sneaks in the house and goes in a room with beds. She meets a man who is deaf who appears to help her. She finds dead bodies confined in the beds, and her friend Cat, who is still alive. While trying to free Cat, the deaf man turns out to be the killer and subdues her.

The Briar Hills Connection: The Final Confrontation
Back at the police station, Tabitha is being grilled by the therapist who asks her about her friend Shelby. Tabitha says that they were all good friends at school but haven't met in years. Tabitha seemed puzzled and asks how she knows about her hometown of Briar Hills. She tells Tabby about a young boy she had as a patient. Before she walks out of the room she tells Tabitha that Lisa and Shelby are also here, and to sit tight because she will be back after she finds "a phone that works." The therapist has an uneasy feeling and quickly leaves the room. The door opens and shuts. Tabitha, still puzzled and scared, walks out of the room after opening the unlocked door and soon understands why the therapist left in a hurry, it turns out they are not at the police station after all. At the end of the hallway she sees the therapist lying on the floor. She goes to the body and then sees the officer approaching. Tabitha realizes he's not a cop when he begins his trademark maniac laugh - he is the killer. He chases her around and down the basement. Eventually Tabby is trapped and pinned in between two glass walls. When the lights come on behind Tabby sees Lisa and then Shelby, both are chained up and their skin opened. The killer comes in, initially taunting them all but then shows Tabitha that the two girls are virtually unharmed, and that 'their opened-skin' is a trick. Realizing now, he'll harm Shelby for real she pretends to laugh. As he comes to her, Tabitha stabs him in the neck with a scalpel she had hid in her hand. Eventually she's able to help her friends break free.

They try to make a run together. But the killer stabs Lisa when she opens the wrong door. Tabitha and Shelby run away. They begin climbing a ladder with the killer in pursuit. He climbs up behind them and grabs hold of Shelby's ankle. Both fall down to the basement floor. Tabitha continues to climb, saddened by what she saw. Once at ground level, she's caged. Soon an elevator comes on and she realizes the killer is coming up. She hides in what she thinks is a closet. She finds the clown mask and costume and the killer surprises her as he look through the peep hole and locks her in the room. She realizes she's in the back of a truck. The truck doesn't make it far from the house (which is the same house from the beginning of the movie). Tabitha takes hold one of the spiked handles and waits. Taking a last look, he laughs while looking through the peep hole again. Tabitha stabs him through the eye, killing him, and she makes the remark: "Now that was funny."

The truck drives away, with Tabitha talking about how she and her friends had laughed at him when they were kids. Thinking that he was a joke. And that after he was sent away, they had forgotten him - but he never did. The film ends with her remarking that even though it's all over, she still can't get his laugh out of her head. And his laugh is heard, again.


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