"A house is really evil, and some bad stuff happens to a guy who turns up n' Stuff. It will be really scary n'all."
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The film takes place in the small town of Dartford, just outside London. Central to the theme is the house which is found near a school, and the family who live in it. The main character, a boy by the name of Joesph Magnum, is left home alone when his parents go on holiday for work. Due to being an only child, he is left alone for a week in the house. However, the house is actually a place of evil. The house is possessed by a number of vengeful spirits, all of whom died there at some point in their lives. The house draws life from those who live in it, slowly draining away their spirit and their life force until they die; forever trapped inside the house. When one victim is incredibly close to death, the house gives the victim some indication as to their fate, before they finally die and become one of the spirits lost in the house.
Once Joesph is left alone, the house reveals the information that he is actually already dead. Haunted by this new piece of information, he decides that the single most logical solution would be to run and try to leave the house. However, when he attempts to leave, he is stopped by himself; the soul that has been extracted from him by the house. Unable to leave due to the house having control over him, he becomes slightly mad, and begins to act in a very melancholy and morose way.
However, with nothing left to lose, he decides to try and find out the exact circumstances that have led him to his death, and the reasons as to why the house has such control over him. His thoughts are interrupted however by the sound of music playing from a gramophone. Lured in by the music playing, he moves toward it. He hears the music coming from his living room area. Opening the door, he is greeted by a vision of a spirit, which causes him to recoil in fear.
The room into which he enters is not the room he was expecting. Rather than his living room, he has walked into what appears to be a party being thrown in his home. Everyone is wearing fancy clothes, and their faces are obscured. He is then given a glass of champagne by a waiter, whom proceeds to vanish into the crowds of party goers. The vision of the party quickly fades from view, and he is left with the scene of what appears to be a massacre.
He keeps having strange visions, mixing reality with events of the past, such as seeing himself dressed in clothes from the 1920s when he looks in the mirror, his possessions changing in favour of ones from the past. The visions even include a high stakes poker game. However, when he finally reaches the poker room, and is seated, he discovers that everyone else playing the game is actually him. He then has a realisation that all the visions he has seen are of him; most of which end with him dying in some way. The spirits in the house are taunting him.
Unable to escape or call for any form of help, the film follows his decline into madness, as he gradually begins to grow accustomed to the world around him. After a while however, he realises he is still trapped in the house. The end of the film is left particularly ambiguous, insinuating that he took his own life, as there was no-way to escape his fate inside the house, yet the suicide is never fully shown, leaving it up to the audience to decide if he killed himself, or was claimed by the house and the spirits from within.
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