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The Main Group
The Group as a Whole
- Flat Characters: The viewer doesn't learn much about them or their personalities before they get killed (or, in Taryn's case, possessed) and most of them have no importance to the plot. The only important character is Taryn, but even she has a lack of discernable traits besides it being mentioned that she doesn't like her brother's girlfriend (which is only brought up once).
Taryn
Portrayed by: Ashley Green Elizabeth
The protagonist who is implied to have a connection to the house.
- Childhood Home Rediscovery: She discovers that the house is actually her old childhood home.
- Demonic Possession: The movie ends with her getting possessed by Lizzie Borden's spirit and staying in the Borden house for good, with her last line being "I'm home now."
- Famous Ancestor: The plot says that Taryn is a descendant of Lizzie Borden.
- Final Girl: She's the only one in the group to survive, but ends up possessed by the ghost of Lizzie Borden.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Taryn is the older responsible sibling while Michael is the foolish younger one. She has second thoughts about the house and is first to pick up on the strange occurances, but Michael insists that it's fine and doesn't believe her.
- Nice Girl: Taryn walks Niki back upstairs to bed when she finds her in the basement, seemingly sleepwalking.
- Parental Abandonment: After Taryn's biological mother committed suicide, her father abandoned her. Soon, she was found by the cops and adopted by Michael's family.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes when she gets possessed by the spirit of Lizzie Borden at the end.
Michael
Portrayed by: Luke Brandon Field
Taryn's brother and Niki's boyfriend.- Adoption Angst: Technically. The situation isn't him angsting over himself being adopted, but his sister, Taryn being adopted. When Michael finds out, he's in disbelief over the fact that Taryn is not his "real" sister (even though she is his sister, regardless of them being blood-related or not).
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish sibling to Taryn's responsible sibling. He brushes off Taryn's concerns and tells her not to "ruin everything" with her worrying.
Niki
Portrayed by: Nikole Howell
Michael's girlfriend. She invites a few of her friends to her upcoming birthday party.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: She checks out her reflection four times at the start of the movie.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's this when possessed, but she doesn't actually pose any threat.
- Sleepwalking: Taryn finds Niki standing in the basement with her eyes wide open and unresponsive.
- Suicide by Sea: When she gets possessed, she drowns herself in the pool.
Scott
Portrayed by: Jakob Renken
- Chekhov's Gun: The cross he brings comes in handy later when trying to perform an exorcism on Dianna, of course.
- Driven to Suicide: The cop encourages Scott to commit suicide after the exorcism doesn't work, saying his God can't same him and there's only one way out. He then shoots himself without hesitation (or after a few hours just as Taryn comes in the basement, for some reason).
- Flat Character: His character can basically be summed up as "church".
- Hollywood Exorcism: Scott and Michael try to expel the demon from Dianna by pinning her down and yelling "God, the father, commands you!" It doesn't work.
- Token Religious Teammate: He brings a cross, several bibles, and talks about church a lot, just to make absolutely sure the audience knows he's Christian. Jenna may also be religious, since Scott says they met at church, but her religiousness is not as overt as Scott's.
Jenna
Portrayed by: Jaime Sarchet
- Ankle Drag: Jenna gets dragged into a dark room by Lizzie Borden's ghost and that's the last we see of her.
- Flat Character: Despite being a part of the main group, Jenna is just kinda there and the only thing we know about her comes from Scott saying they met eachother at church. She also has the least amount of lines.
Others
Dianna Eastbrook
Portrayed by: Donna Spangler
The "eccentric" homeowner.
- Demonic Possession: She's possessed by the spirit of Lizzie Borden throughout the film.
- Blatant Lies: When they're all having dinner at the table, there's suddenly a loud door slam. Dianna then says it's just the wind.
- The Stoic: She has a monotone voice and an expressionless face 24/7.
- Wicked Stepmother: Dianna reveals that she's Taryn's stepmother who married her biological father.
Lizzie Borden
Portrayed by: Nicole Holland
- Ax-Crazy: She puppeteers Dianna and goes around killing a lot of the characters one by one during the climax of the film. Bonus points for her weapon of choice being an axe.
- Demonic Possession: Lizzie was the victim of this and the perpetrator. She's in possession of Dianna for most of the film and then possesses Taryn at the end.
Officer Alvarez
Portrayed by: Nicholas Talone
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presents himself as an easygoing cop, but he let's all of Taryn's friends die (which includes encouraging Scott to commit suicide) just to bring her back to the Borden house. In the end, he causes Taryn to get possessed by Lizzie Borden's spirit.
