Kristy (film)

Kristy
Directed by	Oliver Blackburn
Produced by	David Kirschner Corey Sienega
Written by	Anthony Jaswinski
Starring	Haley Bennett Ashley Greene Lucas Till Mathew St. Patrick James Ransone
Music by	François-Eudes Chanfrault
Cinematography	Crille Forsberg
Edited by	Jeff Betancourt
Production company	David Kirschner Productions
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company
Release dates	October 14, 2014 (2014-10-14) (London Film Festival)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6.9 million

Kristy is a 2014 American horror film directed by Oliver Blackburn and starring Haley Bennett and Ashley Greene. The plot follows a college student who stays on campus alone over Thanksgiving break and finds herself terrorized by a cult of ritual killers. The film premiered at the London Film Festival and also had theatrical releases internationally. In the United States, the film debuted on the Lifetime Network in October 2015, and was released on Netflix on November 5, 2015.

Plot

The film opens with a hooded figure photographing a woman's corpse in an empty field, followed by a montage of internet screenshots and video of women being killed in what appears to be ritual murders by a cybercult, and footage of the murders being uploaded on an anonymous underground website.

Meanwhile, college student Justine (Haley Bennett) and her boyfriend, Aaron, spend the afternoon together in her dorm room. It is the week of Thanksgiving, and Justine, who is attending college on scholarship, cannot afford to fly back to her parents' home for the holiday. Her roommate Nicole (Erica Ash), whom she planned to spend the holiday with on campus, leaves last-minute to fly to Aspen, Colorado to see her father, leaving Justine alone in her dormitory. Justine spends her days on campus in solitude, with the security guard Wayne (Mathew St. Patrick) being the only one nearby.

On Thanksgiving night, Justine takes Nicole's car to a convenience store to get a snack. Inside the store, a hooded girl, Violet (Ashley Greene) approaches Justine, complimenting her car. At the counter, the girl asks for a student discount on a pair of sunglasses, but has no ID. Justine offers to pay for them for her, and the girl refuses and calls her "Kristy." On the drive home, Justine nearly rear ends a mysterious car that is parked in the middle of the road. In the back window, she sees Violet, and speeds off. Upon returning to the campus, Justine hears odd noises inside her dorm and finds the Wi-Fi has been disconnected in her building.

Violet then breaks into Justine's room and confronts her with a boxcutter in hand. On the ground level of the dormitory, Justine witnesses a masked man murder Wayne outside the front door. Another masked man carves the letter "K" with a knife into the wall. Inside the school parking garage, she finds the campus police car with a dead security guard inside. She flees to the house of the campus maintenance man, Scott (James Ransone). Scott goes to confront them outside, but is captured and hanged from a swing set in the backyard.

Justine attempts to call 911 from Scott's cellphone, but the gang has hacked into it. They begin sending Justine video clips of herself on the phone and meaning text messages. They follow her to the library, where she escapes onto the roof of the building. On the rooftop, she is confronted by the gang, and jumps from the building, falling through the branches of a tree which help break her fall. She sees Aaron's car arrive on campus; as she attempts to tell him what has happened, one of the men kills him. Justine gets into the car and begins driving as one of the men tries to break the windshield; she crashes the car against a concrete wall, crushing him to death.

She escapes to the gymnasium, where she hides in the swimming pool. As one of the masked men searches for her in the water, she emerges from the pool, and stabs him through the throat with her car keys; the two struggle in the pool and she uses his baseball bat as a garrote to break his neck. Justine then hides in a locker room, where the final masked man follows her. Inside the locker room's storage closet, she finds nails, which she covers the baseball bat in, and uses it to kill him. Justine hears his cell phone beep, and reads a text message from Violet asking if he's "killed Kristy yet." Justine responds yes, and Violet scratches out her face in a photograph and stores it inside her car's glovebox, along with numerous photos of other victims.

In the locker room, Justine uses pool chemicals to create a flammable powder. She then dresses herself in the dead man's mask and jacket, and approaches the car where Violet is, dousing it in the powder. Justine reveals to Violet that she's killed all three men. Violet attempts to lash at her with a box cutter, but Justine ignites the powder, and Violet is engulfed in flames; Justine watches as she is burned alive. She then photographs her corpse with the cell phone, and uploads it to the website, entitled /the fold/. A montage at the end of the film narrated by news footage reveals a series of similar cult murders had occurred in New York City, New York; Denver, Colorado; Portland, Oregon; and other major cities across the United States.

A post-credits scene shows a young woman being attacked by another cult killer outside her home.

Cast

• Haley Bennett as Justine
• Ashley Greene as Violet
• Lucas Till as Aaron
• Erica Ash as Nicole
• James Ransone as Scott
• Matthew St. Patrick as Wayne
• Al Vicente as Dave
• Chris Coy as Blue Hoodie
• Mike Seal as Black Hoodie
• Lucius Falick as Grey Hoodie

Production

In February 2012, it was announced that Gary Fleder would direct the film, from a screenplay by Tony Jaswinski, hoping to get Emma Watson in the lead role, while, David Kirschner will produce through his David Kirschner Productions.^[1] In June 2012, it was revealed that Olly Blackburn will now direct the film, Corey Sienga and Matthew Stein joined as producers and executive producers respectively.^[2] In October 2012, Haley Bennett joined the cast of the film.^[3] At the American Film Market the film was re-titled "Satanic".^[4] In November 2012, Ashley Greene and Lucas Till joined the cast of the film.^[5][6] In February 2013, it was re-titled to "Random'.^[7]

Release

In February 2013, Entertainment Weekly released the first image of Ashley Greene in the film.^[8] The film was first released in Germany on August 7, 2014.^[9] It also screened at the London Film Festival on October 14, 2014.^[10] In August 2014, it was revealed the film was being re-edited for a U.S theatrical release.^[11] It premiered on Lifetime on October 17, 2015.^[12] It was released on Netflix on November 5, 2015.^[13][14]

References

External links

Kristy at the Internet Movie Database