Film Synopsis: THE STENCH OF KEROSINE
Tag Line: Thirty seconds after you are born you have a past, and sixty seconds after that you start to lie about it.
Delilah Copperfield, a single woman living in New Orleans, unexpectedly awakes in a damp, dingy basement on the 21st of June with only a toilet, a shower and a bed which is nailed to the ground, with no recollection of how or why she is there and the only information she has about the ordeal is the paint on her walls which reads "exactly four years until you shall see the light of day again." Her last memory is of the 14th of February, with no recollection of what had happened in between. All her basic needs are covered, just about keeping her alive as she is destroyed by the long and enduring torture of not knowing why this is being done to her.
On the day she exits the house, exactly four years later to the day, having woken with the only door in the basement wide open she goes to a western style bar as her first step into normality, and in a slightly drunken state begins to tell her bizarre tale to a stranger at the table next to her. As they talk they discover they each have a particularly significant thing in common; both of their brothers had been killed in tragic car crashes. The stranger, Leroy Trilby then decides to help her to seek her revenge as an attempt for them to help each other to get over what had happened to them.
They begin by going back to the basement to investigate and track down the owner, who had been renting it out for the last four years to an unknown man. This leads them onto a string of suspects which ultimately leads them to one person; Frederic Demasio. Having found Demasio's address, Delilah decides to go and find Demasio alone in the final showdown. However, Leroy who is not wholly convinced, sure that there is more to the story, investigates further. As he does so he finds a really old article about how two people started a fire, but only one of them was found. It turns out the attacker that they caught was Delilah's brother and as Leroy pieces together all the things that have happened he soon realises that Delilah isn't a victim, but the person who helped her brother to go after Demasio. He gets in his car and starts after Delilah in the hope that he can stop her, still believing her amnesia prevented her from remembering this, and hence believing that she is still an innocent victim. He rings her phone and leaves a message explaining that Demasio, a victim in all of this, locked her in the room for revenge because she killed his daughter. The audience assumes Delilah has received the message as she leaves the shack she was staying in and walks into the sunset in a typical cliché ending. However, the audience is shocked for the plot to turn completely upside down as we see Delilah take out gasoline from her bag next to an unknown. We then see that Delilah's amnesia had gone after a mater of days and she was now out to finish the job. She sets the car alight, which turns out to have both Demasio and Leroy inside, having received the phone message and hence knowing that Leroy knows too much.
Tag Line: Thirty seconds after you are born you have a past, and sixty seconds after that you start to lie about it.
Delilah Copperfield, a single woman living in New Orleans, unexpectedly awakes in a damp, dingy basement on the 21st of June with only a toilet, a shower and a bed which is nailed to the ground, with no recollection of how or why she is there and the only information she has about the ordeal is the paint on her walls which reads "exactly four years until you shall see the light of day again." Her last memory is of the 14th of February, with no recollection of what had happened in between. All her basic needs are covered, just about keeping her alive as she is destroyed by the long and enduring torture of not knowing why this is being done to her.
On the day she exits the house, exactly four years later to the day, having woken with the only door in the basement wide open she goes to a western style bar as her first step into normality, and in a slightly drunken state begins to tell her bizarre tale to a stranger at the table next to her. As they talk they discover they each have a particularly significant thing in common; both of their brothers had been killed in tragic car crashes. The stranger, Leroy Trilby then decides to help her to seek her revenge as an attempt for them to help each other to get over what had happened to them.
They begin by going back to the basement to investigate and track down the owner, who had been renting it out for the last four years to an unknown man. This leads them onto a string of suspects which ultimately leads them to one person; Frederic Demasio. Having found Demasio's address, Delilah decides to go and find Demasio alone in the final showdown. However, Leroy who is not wholly convinced, sure that there is more to the story, investigates further. As he does so he finds a really old article about how two people started a fire, but only one of them was found. It turns out the attacker that they caught was Delilah's brother and as Leroy pieces together all the things that have happened he soon realises that Delilah isn't a victim, but the person who helped her brother to go after Demasio. He gets in his car and starts after Delilah in the hope that he can stop her, still believing her amnesia prevented her from remembering this, and hence believing that she is still an innocent victim. He rings her phone and leaves a message explaining that Demasio, a victim in all of this, locked her in the room for revenge because she killed his daughter. The audience assumes Delilah has received the message as she leaves the shack she was staying in and walks into the sunset in a typical cliché ending. However, the audience is shocked for the plot to turn completely upside down as we see Delilah take out gasoline from her bag next to an unknown. We then see that Delilah's amnesia had gone after a mater of days and she was now out to finish the job. She sets the car alight, which turns out to have both Demasio and Leroy inside, having received the phone message and hence knowing that Leroy knows too much.
