- The Scorned
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name = The Scorned
image_size = 240px
caption = Movie poster
director =Robert Kubilos
producer =
writer =Rob Cesternino
Eric Mittleman
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starring =Jenna Lewis
Steven HillTrish Schneider Bob Guiney Trishelle Cannatella
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released = 2005
runtime = 87 min.
country =U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0475382"The Scorned" was a
2005 movie. It was the first movie cast entirely with the people from previous reality television series. The movie was filmed during the E! behind-the-scenes reality show "Kill Reality ".The Scorned is a horror movie about a woman who awoke one night to find her fiance in bed with her best friend. In the ensuing struggle the woman (Raina) has her throat slashed and ends up floating in a pool of water. Seventeen months later her spirit still inhabits the house and unleashes her wrath on the unfaithful new tenants of the house.
The movie first premiered in a PG-13 version on
October 31 ,2005 followed by a release of the un-rated DVD exclusively online at http://www.thefishbowl.comPrimary Cast
*Kirsten -
Jenna Lewis (' & ')
*Oliver - Steven Hill ("")
*Raina -Trish Schneider ("The Bachelor")
*Matt -Bob Guiney ("The Bachelorette " & "The Bachelor")
*Nichola -Trishelle Cannatella ("The Real World: Las Vegas")
*Seth -Reichen Lehmkuhl ("The Amazing Race 4 ")
*Jennifer -Tonya Cooley ("")
*DQ -Jon Dalton - "Jonny Fairplay" (') & ')
*Trish -Stacie Jones Upchurch ("The Apprentice 2")
*Murry -Ethan Zohn ("" & "Survivor: All-Stars")
*Sandra -Erika Landin ("Big Brother 4")
*Angie -Jenna Morasca ("" & "Survivor: All-Stars")
*Kozlowski -Toni Ferrari ("Paradise Hotel " & "Love Cruise ")Plot Summary
As the movie opens, we find Raina (Trish Schneider) sitting atop a hillside in California with her best friend Nichola (Trishelle Cannatella). Distraught, Raina reveals to Nichola that she has lately been running into quite a lot of conflict with her fiance Matt (Bob Guiney). Nichola - who happens to be living in a room of the couple's beach house - assures her that it's merely "pre-wedding jitters," and voices a recurring line: "Your happily ever after is just around the corner."
The two return home, and it's not long before Matt and Raina run into yet another argument, resulting in Matt storming from the house in anger. Later that night, Raina awakens and begins to search the house for Matt. She is horrified to encounter her fiance in bed with Nichola, and she storms from the room. From there, the conflict merely escalates - and, when things get physical, a moment of heat leads to Raina's throat being slashed by a fire poker. Perhaps mortally wounded, Raina stumbles into a pool of water, floating helplessly as Matt and Nichola stare in fear.
Seventeen months pass, and four friends decide to rent out the long-abandoned beach house together, completely unaware of its dark history. Very little time passes before some of the new tenants prove to be quite unfaithful in the beach house. This, of course, enrages the ghost of Raina, and she is quick to dispose of the "cheaters" - through the creative means of a staircase, pulling them into the earth, and even through an explosive lava lamp. While the surviving - including the leading couple, Kirsten (Jenna Lewis) and Oliver (Steven Hill) - desperately try to figure out what's happening, they soon find themselves dealing with an eccentric named Murry (Ethan Zohn) who uses their property to "communicate with Raina's spirit." Murry reveals that Raina is, indeed, responsible for the deaths.
Soon, Kirsten and Oliver find themselves caught between two stories - one from the very dubious (though convincing) Matt, and another from the slightly volatile Nichola. Through both stories, it can be surmised that - immediately following the accident - Matt told Nichola to flee to Mexico, promising to come rescue her once the entire problem was resolved. When the police arrived, however, Matt told them that Nichola had inflicted the wound on Raina, and that she had stolen quite a good deal of property. Thus - Nichola was stranded in Mexico and had taken the entire rap for the accident. Obviously Nichola is angry, and things are further complicated when she sneaks back over the border into the United States.
Meanwhile, Kirsten begins to realize that she has been acting quite strangely - and she feels a strange connection to Raina. Murry explains that this is not a possession, as it may appear, but Raina is merely making Kirsten feel what she feels. This leads to several instances of Kirsten acting quite strangely. For example, when Nichola tries to explain to the couple her side of the story, an enraged Kirsten blows up on her, and the two scuffle. Also, she has a vision of killing her ex-boyfriend Oliver - as he long ago allegedly cheated on her. This connection is vital to the storyline, as it compels Kirsten and Oliver to solve this problem, not retreat from it.
In a relatively shocking twist, Kirsten and Oliver learn that Raina was not killed, but is merely resting in a coma in a nearby hospital. Soon only Matt, Kirsten, and Oliver remain in the mystery - as the other characters met certain doom - and it is at this point that Raina jerks awake from the coma. Disoriented, she staggers for the beach house for the final confrontation. In a heated finale, Matt attacks Kirsten, who is saved by Oliver - and Raina is finally able to confront Matt. She utters what became the movie's slogan: "All those cheaters...they all deserve to die!" Hurt, she loses her will to continue, and she tears open the skin that has grown over the slash on her neck. Matt falls to the floor soon after, landed on the fire poker that he originally wounded Raina with - and the two die with their fingers interlocked.
At the end of the movie, Kirsten and Oliver remain alive and well - and the two have made amends on their relationship. Ready to escape this mystery, they depart from the hospital.
In typical scary movie format, the movie ends with a shocking revelation: Nichola was not killed. In a coma reminiscent to that of Raina, she jerks awake. The credits roll.
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