Sx_Tape (2013) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A filmed romantic experiment becomes a supernatural and violent nightmare inside an abandoned hospital.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

Private Images And Public Ruins

Adam documents Jill and their sexual experiments while imagining an art event at an abandoned hospital. Jill's curiosity turns the casual idea into an actual exploration.

Key Events

• Detective Reports Adam's Death — A detective tells Jill that Adam is dead and two others are missing. Characters: Detective, Jill, Adam Location: Police interview setting
• Adam Films Jill — Adam films Jill and explains that he wants to make a film about her and her paintings. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Jill's living space
• The Sex Tape Proposal — Adam jokingly proposes filming a sex tape, and Jill initially declines. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Jill's living space
• Filmed Sexual Encounters — Adam films Jill and himself attempting sexual encounters in several locations. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Various private locations
• The Abandoned Institute — Adam points out the abandoned institute and mentions holding a party there for Jill's paintings. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Road near the Vergerus Institute

The Gurney And The Ghost

Jill and Adam enter the hospital after nearly being caught by a policeman. Adam restrains Jill on an operating table, and a female ghost attacks her after he leaves.

Key Events

• The Abandoned Institute — Adam points out the abandoned institute and mentions holding a party there for Jill's paintings. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Road near the Vergerus Institute
• Entering The Hospital — Jill pushes Adam to explore the abandoned hospital after hearing his party idea. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Vergerus Institute for Troubled Women
• The Policeman Passes — A passing policeman nearly catches them, so they remain inside until he leaves. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital entrance
• Jill Tied To The Gurney — Adam persuades Jill to let him tie her to an operating table before pretending to leave. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital operating room
• The First Possession — A female ghost attacks Jill while she is restrained, and Jill later shows no outward sign of what happened. Characters: Jill, Adam Location: Hospital operating room

Jealousy Behind Locked Doors

The couple discovers that their car has been towed and returns with Bobby. Bobby's flirtation with Jill fuels Adam's jealousy, while a gun threat fractures the group's fragile cooperation.

Key Events

• The First Possession — A female ghost attacks Jill while she is restrained, and Jill later shows no outward sign of what happened. Characters: Jill, Adam Location: Hospital operating room
• Blood During Intimacy — Jill agrees to a sexual encounter with Adam and suffers a nosebleed. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital interior
• The Towed Car — Adam and Jill decide to leave but discover that their car has been towed. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital exterior
• Bobby Brings Them Back — Jill persuades Bobby to pick them up, but Bobby convinces the group to return inside. Characters: Jill, Adam, Bobby Location: Hospital exterior
• Jealousy And Gun Threat — Adam becomes jealous of Bobby's attention toward Jill, and Bobby threatens Adam with a gun. Characters: Adam, Jill, Bobby Location: Hospital corridor
• Ellie Separates Adam — Ellie persuades Adam to wait while she looks for Jill and Bobby, preventing an immediate fight. Characters: Adam Location: Hospital corridor

Records Of The Damned

Jill and Adam find medical records and encounter increasingly direct supernatural terror. Jill's failed call for help sends her toward the hospital office while Adam follows.

Key Events

• Blood And Shell Casings — Adam finds Jill hysterical near blood spatters and shell casings after searching for the others. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital corridor
• The Medical Archive — Jill becomes absorbed in records describing a lobotomized patient with aggression and suicidal tendencies. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital medical records archive
• The Ghost Terrorizes Them — A ghost systematically terrorizes Jill and Adam as they continue searching for the exit. Characters: Adam, Jill Location: Hospital interior
• The Dispatcher Warns Jill — Jill calls the police, but the dispatcher angrily tells her to go to the office and get away from Adam. Characters: Jill, Adam Location: Hospital interior
• The Office Escape — Jill becomes trapped in the office, Adam breaks down the door, and Jill escapes holding a videotape. Characters: Jill, Adam Location: Hospital office

The Footage Turns Against Them

Adam discovers security footage portraying Jill killing Bobby and another member of the group. He finds Jill in the bathroom, where she shoots him before later footage delivers a final violent image.

Key Events

• Security Footage Reveals Murder — Adam watches footage showing Jill with Ellie and Bobby before Jill shoots them both. Characters: Adam, Jill, Bobby Location: Hospital security room
• Jill Shoots Adam — Adam finds Jill acting erratically; she demands a sexual act and then shoots him to death. Characters: Jill, Adam Location: Hospital bathroom
• The Patient's Procedure — Footage shows a female patient being anesthetized and apparently assaulted before undergoing a lobotomy. Characters: Jill Location: Hospital treatment room
• The Final Recorded Assault — The final footage shows Jill performing a sexual act before biting the man's penis off. Characters: Jill Location: Unknown interior

Story Breakdown

• Detective Framing Mystery — The film begins after the central violence, presenting Adam's death and the disappearances as an unresolved investigation.
  • Adam Declared Dead — The detective informs Jill that Adam has died.
  • Two People Missing — The opening report establishes additional unexplained disappearances.
• Filmed Relationship — Adam's camera turns his relationship with Jill into an experimental film involving her art and private life.
  • Jill's Paintings — Adam plans to make a film about Jill and her paintings.
  • Sex Tape Experiment — Adam films sexual attempts with Jill after she initially refuses.
• Hospital Invitation — A casual idea about an art party draws Jill and Adam toward the abandoned Vergerus Institute.
  • The Vergerus Institute — Adam points out the abandoned hospital and its rumors.
  • Jill Chooses Exploration — Jill pushes Adam to enter and investigate the hospital.
• Restraint And Possession — The hospital transforms the couple's playful intimacy into isolation, physical restraint, and supernatural danger.
  • Operating Table Trap — Adam ties Jill down and pretends to abandon her.
  • Female Ghost Attack — A female ghost attacks Jill while she is restrained.
• Group Fracture — The return to the hospital with Bobby replaces private tension with jealousy, flirtation, and armed confrontation.
  • The Towed Car — Adam and Jill cannot leave because their car has been towed.
  • Bobby's Gun Threat — Bobby threatens Adam after tensions rise around Jill.
  • Blood And Shells — Adam finds Jill near blood spatters and spent shell casings.
• Records And Haunting — Medical records connect the hospital's past to Jill's increasingly disturbing experiences as the ghost continues its assault.
  • Medical Archive — Jill studies records about an aggressive and suicidal lobotomized patient.
  • Systematic Terror — A ghost repeatedly terrorizes Jill and Adam inside the hospital.
• Footage Of Violence — The hospital's recordings expose apparent murders and reveal the final collapse of Adam and Jill's relationship.
  • Office Videotape — Jill escapes the office carrying a videotape after Adam breaks in.
  • Security Monitor Revelation — Adam watches footage showing Jill killing Bobby and another group member.
  • Adam's Final Encounter — Jill shoots Adam in the bathroom after acting erratically.
• Violent Aftermath — The final footage extends the hospital's sexualized violence beyond Adam's death and leaves Jill in a threatening state.
  • Patient Procedure Footage — A female patient is anesthetized and apparently assaulted before a lobotomy.
  • Biting The Cameraman — Jill bites a man's penis during the final recorded encounter.

Directed by

Bernard Rose

Key Cast

• Caitlyn Folley — Jill
• Ian Duncan — Adam
• Diana García — Elly
• Chris Coy — Bobby
• Julie Marcus — Colette McLeod