Teenaged Gary (Leon Ford), Brad (Charlie Garber), Emily (Lenka Kripac) &
Tracey (Alex Vaughan) make a trip to an abandoned beach, to surf &
eventually make out ... but the beach doesn't seem too right right from the
beginning, giving especially the girls a feeling of unease. When a weird
stranger, Zippo (Steve Le Marquand) tells them about 3 murders that happened
here not too long ago, that doesn't help either, & then the kids are all
having flashbacks to things that didn't even actually happen ... Eventually,
Brad & Emily, who are sort of a couple, start a fight, & Emily
vanishes, pretty much without a trace. When the others search for her, that is
pretty much in vain, which leads Tracey to the conclusion that the answer might
lie in Emily's diary ... where she finds nothing but some weird hocus pocus. When
dusk sets in, Emily's back all of a sudden as if nothing had happened ... At
dinnertime, Zippo shows up again, this time behaving much more civil than
before ... until Brad thinks Zippo has a knife & thus stabs him in
self-defense ... even though Zippo just didn't have a knife ... To not get
into troubles, our teens decide to secretly bury Zippo to hush everything up
& burn his belongings, but among his belongings, they find a fine selection
of bodyparts. In panic, the teens try to get away in their van, when Enmily
loses her nerves, & the others leave her behind. But they don't get far, as
Zippo (yes, the one who's supposed to be dead) attacks the van & punctures
one of their tyres. Revisiting Zippo's grave, they indeed find him gone.
Reuniting with Emily, they see the fabric of time completely crumbling, seeing
stuff that did happen before, stuff that might have happened if reality took
another turn, & stuff that shouldn't have happened, like Brad, Gary &
Tracey all being stabbed by Zippo. It all might have had to do with Emily, who
did use some occult powers to make the moment last, but she seems to have
picked pretty much the wrong moment, because she ends up raped by Zippo, &
possibly killed by him too, & ... Brad wakes up from a daydream, the kids
are still at the beginning of their trip ... or is it jsut the beginning of
another time loop ? Starting out as a dull, conventional slasher
movie, this film eventually takes a turn into more occult terrain, when the
kids enter the world of dejà vu-like timeloops where conventional reason does
no longer apply, instead the logic of the nightmare seems to be taking over,
which takes the film into a new, inventive direction & does make it
worthwhile. However, some overly clichéd usa of suspense build-up & anm
exaggerated emphasis on trivial teenage drama prevent this film from being a
masterpiece.
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