720P,QUALITY HD
SYNOPSIS
Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) is a mentally disturbed young man who has taken over his family's mannequin sales business after the recent death of his mother, who also moonlighted as a prostitute. Frank's childhood experiences of seeing his mother bring home clients or being taken out with her to turn tricks has left Frank unable to enter into meaningful relationships with women, and his sexual impulses tend to manifest themselves as violent urges that Frank externalizes as his mother's will.
One night Frank stalks, murders and scalps a young woman, then attaches her hair to a mannequin that he keeps in his bedroom, in reference to memories of his mother brushing her hair before going out. He then joins a dating site, where he befriends a girl named Lucie. The two meet for what turns out to be a successful date. The pair return to Lucie's apartment, where she attempts to seduce the virginal Frank, mistaking his increasing panic for nervousness. Failing to control his homicidal impulses, Frank eventually strangles Lucie, then scalps her and takes her hair back to his apartment, where he attaches it to another mannequin.
One morning, Frank awakens to find a photographer named Anna taking photos of the mannequins in his storefront. Frank invites her into his store, where she becomes taken with his work restoring antique department store mannequins. The two develop a friendship, with Frank agreeing to help Anna put together an art exhibit using his mannequins. As the two spend more time together, Frank begins to fall in love, and becomes more resolute about trying to control his urges, also resorting to pharmaceuticals. Despite his attempts, Frank claims one more victim by following a woman home from her dance studio, stabbing her to death in a parking lot and attaching her hair to another mannequin.
At the opening of the exhibit, Frank meets Anna's boyfriend Jason, whose existence he had only recently learned of, as well as art director and Anna's mentor Rita. Both mock him for his interest in mannequins, questioning his sexual orientation. Frank later follows Rita home, subdues her in the bathtub and hog-ties her on her bed. Identifying Rita with his mother, Frank voices his resentment and sense of abandonment, finally scalping Rita alive in a fit of rage.
Several nights later, Frank calls Anna, who tearfully tells him of Rita's murder and of her recent breakup with Jason. Frank comes to Anna's apartment to comfort her, but in his attempts he inadvertently confesses to the murders by giving away insider knowledge of the cases of Rita and the other women. Panicking, Anna attacks Frank with a kitchen knife, but Frank manages to subdue Anna, rendering her unconscious and killing her neighbor in the process. Frank loads Anna's body into his van and drives home, but as he arrives Anna regains consciousness and stabs Frank in the stomach with a piece of rebar attached to a mannequin hand. Anna flees and is picked up by a passing motorist, who runs Frank down at Anna's urging but crashes the car, knocking out both passengers. A bloodied Frank hobbles to the mortally wounded Anna and scalps her as she dies.
Frank returns to his apartment, attaching Anna's hair to a mannequin dressed in a bridal gown. As he succumbs to his injuries, Frank suffers hallucinations of the mannequins transforming into his victims and tearing his body apart, finally ripping off his face to reveal a mannequin head. Before he dies, Frank sees Anna, clad in a wedding dress, lower her veil and turn her back on him. Later that day, a SWAT team breaks into Frank's apartment, only to find a bloodied, dead Frank in his closet.
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