| Director | Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury |
|---|---|
| Genre | horror film, slasher film |
| Runtime | 110 min |
| Country | United States |
| Box office | $1.5 million |
In 1955, a couple, Betty Hartman and Ted Hardesty, are driving down a country road when they come across the seemingly wounded child Jedidiah Sawyer. In an attempt to help him, Betty follows him to a dilapidated barn, where his murderous and sadistic family promptly kills her. Her father, Sheriff Hal Hartman, is called to the crime scene, where he is shocked to find his daughter deceased. Despite the efforts of matriarch Verna Sawyer, Hal responds by taking Jedidiah into custody as retribution against the Sawyers, sending him to a mental institution known as the Gorman House Youth Reformery.
10 years later, at the Gorman House, where inmates are renamed to avoid their dangerous families, nurse Elizabeth "Lizzie" White forms a bond with a boy named Jackson. Verna later shows up at the institution with an injunction to allow family visitation, only to be rejected by the director of the facility, Doctor Lang. On the way out, she violates security, causing an escape riot in which many of the nurses and patients are killed. Lizzie is saved by Jackson, who gets her outside with fellow inmate Bud, where crazed escapees Ike and Clarice take them hostage.
The group arrives at a rest-stop diner after ditching their Gorman House uniforms. In an altercation with waitress Tammy, Ike and Clarice begin a murder spree within the diner, which forces them to flee. Hal arrives on the scene and pieces together that one of the escaped inmates is Jedidiah Sawyer. That night, the escapees take refuge in an abandoned mobile home. Believing that everyone is asleep, Lizzie tries to escape, but Ike stops her from doing so. He then becomes engaged in a fight with Jackson and insults Bud, leading to his demise. The next morning, Clarice notices Ike is missing and heads off to find him. She searches the woods and is consequently apprehended by a patrolling Hal. Upon disparaging both him and his dead daughter, he impulsively kills her as the others watch from a distance. Horrified, Lizzie flees with Jackson and Bud in tow. As a police car passes, she screams for help, causing the deputy to notice them.
The deputy attempts to call for backup, resulting in the killing of Bud in the ensuing struggle. An enraged Jackson kills the deputy. Panicking, Jackson and Lizzie steal his vehicle and try to reach safety, but are pursued by the deranged Hal. He opens fire on them, and one of the bullets strikes Jackson's face, while another injures Lizzie, causing the vehicle to careen off the side of the road. Later that night, Lizzie regains consciousness at the barn where Betty was murdered, discovering that she and Jackson are being held hostage by Hal. Planning to kill them, he gleefully tells Lizzie that Jackson is Jedidiah Sawyer. However, the Sawyer family arrives to save the helpless Jedidiah, beating Hal into submission and taking Hal and Lizzie into captivity.
Back at the Sawyer home, Verna stitches the remnants of Jedidiah's face and applies a muzzle to hold them together. She then leads him into a room where his siblings are holding Lizzie and Hal captive. Verna gifts Jedidiah with a chainsaw and Lizzie watches in horror as he bisects Hal to death. As the family celebrates, Lizzie flees into the woods while the Sawyers give chase. She nearly escapes, only to be caught in a bear trap. Lizzie attempts to appeal to Jedidiah's sympathy, while Verna encourages him to kill her to protect their family. Unable to recall events before his injury, Jedidiah begins to listen to Lizzie's pleas, but kills her after she insults Verna. The next morning, Verna burns the evidence of the prior night's events, and the other Sawyers feed the remains of their victims to the pigs. In the house basement, Jedidiah crafts the faces of Hal and Lizzie into a mask, donning it in front of a mirror as he applies lipstick. The film ends with him smashing the mirror at the sight of his reflection.