Production Company: forty4 productions
Genre: Psychological horror/thriller
Synopsis: Emma is a university student and lives in North London with her housemate, Yasmin. Her boyfriend cheated on her and dumped her for a more attractive girl, increasing her insecurity and causing her to develop an obsession with image and physical beauty. She becomes incredibly jealous of attractive women, wishing to be like them, and seeing them as threats that have to be eliminated. Yasmin is completely oblivious, and no one would suspect Emma. As she leaves the house late one night to find her next victim, Yasmin goes to bed, unaware of her housemates late-night hobby...
The first half of the film involves Emma lengthening her list of beautiful female victims, and the audience also finds out a bit of the backstory. Eventually, Yasmin begins to suspect Emma, realising there is a hidden, monstrous side to her. She works out that Emma is the mysterious serial killer in the area, and almost meets the same fate as the other women when she confronts her, but Yasmin manages to escape. Emma eventually commits suicide, being unable to reach the state of perfection she desires, and realising that the game is up.
The Opening: shows a montage of clips showing Emma getting ready to go out, accompanied by unsettling music and broken up by title screens showing the production credits. There is a build up of very fast-paced cutting between shots of models' pictures cut out of magazines with the ghosting effect, while the track Edge of Madness plays, which leads up to the title: Blink Murder. The rest of the sequence shows Yasmin turning off a light, walking upstairs, and going to Emma's room, where Emma is just about to take the knife out of the drawer but is interrupted. They have a conversation and Yasmin goes to bed, leaving Emma to take the knife...
Music: An Upsetting Theme - double basses, glockenspiel, cellos - found on: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Edge of Madness - rising atonal strings
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