Crazy Eights (film)

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Crazy Eights
Starring Traci Lords
Dina Meyer
Frank Whaley
Gabrielle Anwar
George Newbern
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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Crazy Eights is an American Horror Film that was accepted as one of the 8 Films to Die For. The film starred Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, and Dina Meyer.

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The film begins with six individuals experiencing strange and disturbing dreams, hearing otherworldly voices, and seeing unexplained, physical phenomena. The six soon gather, and travel to the area of their childhood. Soon after, they find a time capsule, containing not only their personal belongings from their childhood, but the remains of a diminutive girl. Brent, the more brash and paranoid member of the group, announces that he is leaving. The other members of the group, realizing he possesses the keys to the van, promptly follow. The group then, seeking to leave the haunting area, drive along the road from which they entered, finding to their dismay that the road loops around in circles. Brent notices a figure standing near a few trees, and quickly leads the group to her location. The group, finding the girl to have disappeared, enter the home behind where the girl was apparently seen. The group concedes that they should split into two groups, and search for the girl seen by Brent. Wayne Gina and wend their way to the basement, where Wayne sees the shadow of a person and subsequently breaks his leg. Gina turns the basement's lights on, and sets out for help. Meanwhile, Brent discovers a "Condemned" notice, warning that all trespassers will be shot. Gina notifies the rest of the group of Wayne's injury, and the group arrives at Wayne's location, with Brent fetching a bag that could possibly contain medical supplies. When all members of the group are inside of the basement, the door strangely shuts and is locked. The group, now looking simply for a way out of the house itself, leave with Wayne, and search for any possible exit. leaves Wayne alone, wandering off to an connecting room. She stares into a mirror hanging off a wall in the derelict room, and sees a reflection of her younger self staring back at her. Wayne crawls and climbs halfway into a nearby window frame (Leading to another room), when the window is suddenly closed, killing Wayne. The group soon returns to find Wayne's body, and temporarily transfer it to the attic. Warren and Gina take an obviously disturbed to a room serving as a bedroom for multiple children. asks to be left alone, and Warren and Gina reluctantly comply. When left alone, begins sucking her thumb, and lies on a bed. During this time, a horrible creature visits , promising to remove her guilt if she "takes it off". screams, and when Warren, Brent, Gina, and reenter the room, they find a bloody and jaw less lying crumpled against a way. Brent, finally flummoxed by the current situation, flees the room, running far from the remaining members of the group. He enters a series of adjoined, lighted rooms, before discovering that again, the series of rooms loop in circles, with no exit. Brent yells and curses at whoever is tormenting him, and promises that when he escapes the home, he will burn it to the ground. Gina,Warren, and return to the room where saw her reflection, and break the window, deducing that it was used to watch the previous occupants of the home. Brent somehow finds an exit, which leads to a room filled with a plethora of toys, and a large painting on the wall. Brent recounts how "Compassion is the difference between a man, and a beast". The remainder of the group walk along the length of the hall exposed by the broken mirror, arriving at a room containing records, documenting the progress of the "subjects", among which were a savant, and an autistic individual. Warren comes to the conclusion that they were trying to teach them guilt, but is surprised when a frustrated Gina rampages throughout the room, exposing a graffiti made by the group when they were children. They discover a picture frame containing pictures of all of them as children, including the man who they all believed was their own father. Brent, meanwhile drops to his knees, and replays several quotes found in a book in the time capsule, talking about how they cannot run. He apparently comes to some sort of realization, before a figure emerges behind him, and kills him. Warren suddenly remembers old memories hidden by pain and horror, about how the group of eight children escaped the home, where they were experimented on. He recounts how they were forced to leave one of the members of the group, a fragile young girl, in a chest containing meaningful objects, promising to return and rescue her. He realizes that the time capsule is the chest, and that they came back for the girl, to find her dead from suffocation. Gina, disgusted by the realization, runs into a bathroom, regurgitating in the toilet before here eyes are destroyed by the same horrible creature who took the lives of Wayne, Brent, and . Warren and Jennifer finally manage to enter the room, and quickly bind Gina's eyes with strips of cloth. They take her to the storage room, and leave her there, promising to return soon. Warren, convincing Gina that they must find and destroy all objects linking them to the dead girl, implores Gina to split from him to find the objects in a reduced amount of time. Gina reminds Warren that Brent left a slingshot under a grate, near a truncated tunnel. Warren finds the area, and reaches down to acquire the slingshot, when a hand grasps his. He quickly struggles and stumbles back, severely wounding his neck on a pike. Meanwhile, Jennifer finds a paintbrush under a filthy bed, and begins to walk back to the room containing Gina. Gina, unaware of her surroundings and left with a metal bar, inadvertently kills Warren when he enters the room. In Warren's last breaths, he tells Gina that yet another object is in the tunnel. Gina peregrinates back to the entrance of the basement, where a horrible creature behind her clasps its hand over her mouth, suffocating her. Jennifer returns to the room, finding a dead Warren. She pleads for the revival of the dead man, before accruing the courage to burn the slingshot, and the paintbrush in a garbage can. While burning the objects, the horrible creature who led the other group members to their terrifying deaths (Revealed to be Karen), taunts Jennifer, reminding her of how she left her in the chest. Jennifer asks, with a raising temper in her voice, what objects are left to burn. When she does not receive an answer, she deduces that regardless of the items burned, she is connected to the girl's death. While she prepares to plunge a shard of glass into her stomach, a flashback where a man talks to Karen about the "project" is seen, and the movie abruptly ends.

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