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PARTAKE

PARTAKE
By David Spain

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

A group of working class teenagers are hired to serve food at an aristocratic gathering, only to discover that they themselves will be served up as the evening's gruesome entertainment.

SYNOPSIS:

Sarah and her friends, Lucy, Renee, Morani, and Aaron, receive an offer of a job catering a party at the home of Smythe: a rich and well-connected politician. Attending the party, they receive unpleasant treatment from the upper-class guests, including harassment and mockery, until they decide to walk out. Discovering that Renee and Aaron are missing, however, Sarah, Lucy, and Morani are forced to search the large house, eventually stumbling on a secret chamber where Renee is being tortured by Smythe and his guests.

Lucy is taken prisoner as Renee is executed, while Sarah and Morani are pursued through the house. Sarah, her ankle injured, conceals herself in an attic while Morani manages to get outside, racing for the road. Sarah navigates her way through the attics as Morani contacts the police, hoping to save his friends. The police, however, deliver him back to Smythe's residence, and Sarah is forced to watch as Morani is dragged to his death.

Alone and on the verge of panic, Sarah tries to find another way out of the house. When she is surprised by a small child, she instinctively lashes out, killing him before she can stop herself. Unable to save him and stunned by what she's done, Sarah continues to search for a way out, having to kill a servant to keep her presence a secret.

When she tries to escape through the kitchens, Sarah finds Aaron locked in the pantry. She frees him, only for Aaron to reveal that he's been working with Smythe to deliver Sarah and her friends to him. Sarah tries to kill Aaron, still desperate to escape, but Aaron subdues her as the guests find the pair of them. Sarah awakens in the secret chamber, with Aaron preparing to torture and execute her.

The final scenes depict the search for Sarah and her friends continuing without hope, the execution of Smythe as punishment for the death of the child at Sarah's hands, and Aaron once again looking for new victims.

JJ Hillard

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John Theroux

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John Theroux

I think I've seen this movie before

Pattana Thaivanich

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B A Mason

Sounds awfully close to Ready or Not, Would you Rather, or Get Out.

It's a pretty common concept nowadays with class struggle and privilege being such a polarizing issue.

Sean Milligan

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