As the film opens, high school student Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow) sees her dad and brother dead and witnesses her mother get murdered by Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech), a teacher at her school who has become obsessed with her. Three years later, Donna, about to graduate and living with her aunt and uncle, is in therapy and taking pills (Klonopin, a benzodiazapine) to deal with the trauma of losing her family and her persistent nightmares. Donna and several friends (Bobby (Scott Porter) ), Lisa (Dana Davis), Ronnie (Collins Pennie), Michael (Kelly Blatz) and Claire (Jessica Stroup) make plans to attend their senior prom together.Meanwhile, Detective Winn, the police officer responsible for imprisoning Fenton, learns that Fenton has escaped three days before Donna's senior prom and decides to stake out Donna's prom in order to keep an eye on her.
At the prom, Donna and her friends get keys to a suite in the hotel. Fenton is already at the prom and kills the maid to obtain the master key. He hides in the hotel room while Donna is in there. She opens the door and Claire surprises her. Claire is fighting with her boyfriend and says that she will be back down when she fixes her make-up. After Donna leaves, Claire hears noises and checks to see if it is Donna. She realizes that it is Fenton and is stabbed and killed.
Detectives Winn and Nash, Winn's partner, find the body of a man named Ramsey supposedly registered at the hotel. Michael goes upstairs to their room to find Claire to see if she would except his apology. He sees the closet door closing while checking the bathroom and goes up to the closet and opens it and sees Fenton's face. Fenton jumps at him and stabs him.
Lisa and Ronnie head up to the suite and Lisa bumps into Fenton in the elevator, but does not recognize him. She realizes his identity when Ronnie and her are having a romantic moment. She leaves suddenly leaving Ronnie confused. Ronnie was just about to propose. She leaves to warn Donna. When she gets to the elevator it is taking too long, so she rushes to the stairs and trips. She sees Fenton behind the door and she starts to run, hiding from him in a section of the hotel under renovation. She hides under a table. Ronnie comes down looking for her but she does not scream because Fenton would kill Ronnie if she did. Ronnie then goes back up. She thinks Fenton is gone, so she gets out from under the table and accidentally knocks over some paint tins, alerting Fenton. She runs right into him and he grabs her and slits her throat. Her blood sprays all over the plastic covering.
Detective Winn heads up to the room registered to Fenton's victim and finds the body of a hotel employee, a maid. Now knowing for sure that Fenton is in the building, he triggers the emergency alarm and evacuates the building, just as, downstairs, Ronnie and Lisa are about to be announced as prom king and queen. Ronnie and Bobby head outside while Donna goes back upstairs to retrieve something she left in the suite. Donna sees Fenton in the suite and hides under the bed she sees Claire's body and screams. Then she runs out the room and runs into Winn and Nash. Nash drives her back to her house while Winn searches the hotel (unsuccessfully) for Fenton. He eventually realizes that Fenton may have escaped wearing a hotel employee's uniform, and rushes back to Donna's house to warn her. He calls Nash, who is stationed outside Donna's home, on the way and tells him to get into the house.
Nash and another cop patrol the house while Donna and Bobby go to sleep. Winn arrives to find Nash dead in his car, throat slashed. Donna goes to the bathroom to take some pills to calm herself down and sees Fenton standing behind her in the mirror. Fenton grabs Donna by the hair and smashes her head against the mirror, knocking her unconscious.
Donna jerks awake and realizes she was only dreaming. She goes to the bathroom and takes some pills, only to come back and find Bobby dead, his throat slit. She sees a shadow thinking it is Fenton she hides in her closet but is grabbed by Fenton. The shadow figure was really Winn. A scream is heard so Winn goes downstairs. The person screaming was Donna's aunt because she sees a dead cop in her drive way. Donna hits Fenton and runs out the room but Fenton grabs her leg she starts to struggle with him. Winn comes back upstairs and shoots Fenton several times. Donna cries over Bobby's dead body. Her aunt and uncle then come in and take her out of the room, and the end credits roll.
Directed by :
Nelson McCormick
Produced by :
Akiva Goldsman
Written by :
J.S. Cardone
Starring :
Brittany Snow
Johnathon Schaech
Scott Porter
Dana Davis
Jessica Stroup
Release date(s) May 30, 2008
Budget $20 million
Official website :
http://www.anighttodiefor.com/
Brainless movie. There is no script, no suspense, poor acting and completely boring. Once you will watch it you will think why you have wasted your time on this movie.
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