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A girl Megan who is 18 is moving up to London to go to university to study crime and criminal justice. She is moving into a flat near central London with the help of her friend Jemma. It is the first time she has lived on her own. Once moved in she keeps seeing a strange man hanging around the flats. She suspects he is stalking her. One of her neighbours tells her the girl who lived there three years previous was found dead in the flat. After she is told this Megan sees writing in her flat on the wall saying ‘you’re next’ and receives mutilated pictures of herself. She naturally thinks the stalker is after her. However it turns out he is just her social worker who is keeping an eye on her, as she has suffered in the past with schizophrenic episodes. Eventually she is admitted to a mental institution but the audience is left to wonder whether the story actually happened or if she has always been in the ward, and imagined it.

The first 2 minutes of the film

We see location shots of London, not your typical tourist attractions. We want to show churches, statues, alleyways and bridges as they relate to how Megan is feeling about London, she is scared and vulnerable. We see Megan stood outside the flat with her friend Jemma holding a box. Cut to them inside the flat, Megan goes into her new room and picks up a mirror off the side table and looks at her reflection. Her friend Jemma asks ‘Are you ok?’ She gets no response from Megan who is intently looking at herself in the mirror. Jemma opens the wardrobe and the last tenants clothes are still there, she says ‘ this is strange, the last girls clothes are still here’ Megan then goes to the window still holding the mirror, sees a dark figure outside and drops it. Jemma goes over to reassure her and Megan says ‘There’s someone watching me’ Jemma also looks out the window, sees there nobody there and says ‘There’s no one there meg’
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