Synopsis/Details
Jake Edwards is a 22-year-old college student and a mature introvert who aspires to be an artist. He is put under pressure by everyone around him over his shy personality, not getting a job, and his desire to move out of his parents' house. His best friend is Brody Clarke who is trying to help Jake get himself out there. Jake tries to ask a girl out, only to be humiliated by her and her friends. After the humiliation, Jake and Brody then go to their Religious Studies course where they learn about a "succubus", a woman sent from Hell to suck the life out of a man through sexual intercourse.
After class, Jake and Brody kick off their Reading Week at a bar where Brody gets Jake to offer a girl a drink, only for her boyfriend to threaten Jake and lead to a bar brawl between Jake, Brody, and the jealous psychotic boyfriend. Jake storms out of the bar, but Brody catches up to him, only for Jake to lash out and walk away. After sulking and wandering around the city, Jake spots a raven-haired woman named Lacey attacked by a mugger and tries to help her. The mugger beats down Jake, but is knocked out by Lacey with a steel pipe.
Lacey carries the unconscious Jake to her suburban house and is treated by her and her six equally attractive friends. They are Nancy who is brunette, Sophie who is blonde, Autumn who has red or auburn hair, Savannah who is African-American, Camilla who is Latina, and Mei Mei who is Asian. Their leader is an exotic British-Persian woman named Angela, who will meet Jake the next day.
Jake and Lacey have sex in her room, but while sleeping, a hand made up of green herpes appears from under Lacey's sheet and grabs onto Jake's leg. He wakes up and thinks it was all just a bad dream. The next morning, Brody calls Jake to check up on him and explains everything that happened last night and that everything is fine. Angela returns home to meet Jake and to celebrate her return, the ladies give Jake the night of his life. He plays spin the bottle, engages in sexual acts, and watches the women seductively play karaoke.
Despite the fun he's been having, Jake starts to feel sick, but the ladies brush it off as having too many drinks and is chinned up by Lacey. The next morning, he tells Brody to come down and gives him the address. However, he starts to feel even sicker and discovers small herpes on the left side of his face and lesions on his right arm. Jake is scared and angry and realizes that the ladies don't plan on getting him help. He sees the living room filled with tools of witchcraft and his phone is thrown into the fireplace. Jake struggles to walk, feels dizzy, has a coughing fit, and slowly falls to the ground. As he is now only seemingly-conscious and weak on the floor, Angela has him drink a small silver potion.
Brody is at the bar trying to call Jake again to no response and after watching a strange news report, he meets a crazy hunter named Alfonso Cobb who says he is hunting for "cougars". He explains to Brody that in his long life of hunting around the world, he hears the craziest stories including a legend about a group of women who seduce and prey on younger men to kill them later. Worried that Jake is in trouble, Brody asks for help.
Jake is in the basement strapped to a chair and apparentely cured of his diseases because of the potion. The ladies are enchantresses who've been around since the 16th century and lived so long with a cost. They explain how they turn into actual "cougars", how they occasionally have herpe hands emerging from them, and that seducing and killing young men like Jake keeps them alive and human. After seducing Jake with a bikini contest and threatening him, the ladies realize they are starting to change because of a full moon.
Brody, Alfonso, and Alfonso's nephew Charlie walk down the forest near the suburban neighborhood and enter the house to kill the cougars with rifles and pistol handguns filled with silver bullets as well as silver daggers. However, the rescue mission leads to the casualties of Alfonso and Charlie and for Brody to disappear in a fight with one of the cougars, leaving Jake to fend for himself. After taking out more of the cougars with the silver daggers and bullets, he encounters a fully-transformed Angela and kills her.
Outside of the house, the injured Jake sobs over what he's experienced and Lacey tries to help him. He refuses to believe her, but she acts more innocently and nearly convinces him until he sees her cougar tail and tries to bite down his neck. Jake topples Lacey and hesitates to finish her. Brody arrives and Lacey says Jake won't do it because "he'll never leave her" and he is "weak" causing Jake to angrily stab Lacey in the chest with a silver dagger and she dies. Jake begins to cry as he and Brody embrace with the ordeal finally over.
Two months later, a more confident Jake is heading off to Ireland with his new Irish girlfriend to begin an art career. He and Brody say their goodbyes. As the couple drives toward a sunset, a random woman in a pink dress sees them drive by her and when it's out of sight, a herpe hand emerges from her.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Escape
Story Situation:
Abduction
Story Conclusion:
Happy
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Contempt, Good Man, Innocence, Temperance
Cast Size:
Several
Locations:
Few
Special Effects:
Blood, Other on-set effects, Other post processing effects, Other practical effects, Prosthetics, Significant cgi, Stunt rigs/wire systems
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Young Adult
Hero Type:
Ordinary, Unfortunate
Villian Type:
Beast/Monster, Femme/Homme Fatale, Supernatural
Advanced
Subgenre:
B-Movie, Creature Feature, Erotic, Gore, Witchcraft
Action Elements:
Physical Stunts, Weaponry
Equality & Diversity:
Diverse Cast, Passes Bechdel Test
Life Topics:
College/University Life, Loss of Virginity
Time Period:
Ancient history, Contemporary times
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Time of Year:
President’s Day, Spring, Valentine’s Day
Illness Topics:
Physical, Psychological
Relationship Topics:
Non-monogamy, Passion, Sexual activity, Sexuality