The Seduction of Rose Parrish (2021) - full transcript
A young woman recovering from a messy breakup is given her great-great-grandparents' house by her aunt. Inside, a seductive, ghostly presence from the past awaits her.
[bats squeaking]
[wolves howling]
[mysterious music]
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
- My God.
[giggles]
Aunt Savannah, it looks
like something out of
"Gone With The Wind.
- Doesn't it?
And it's all yours now.
[ghostly warping]
- What's wrong?
[mysterious music]
- Nothing.
- Come on, I'll
show you the house.
- Wow.
[gentle music]
- I'm glad we were finally
able to get it back.
Come on, I'll show you around.
- Oh my, this is insane.
- I've only had a few months
to get some of the rooms painted
and what's left of
the original furniture
is still in storage, but
I wanted you to move in.
- Oh, thank you.
I can't believe it.
This is really beautiful.
- My great-grandfather's study.
I wasn't allowed in here.
I've set it up for you
to use as an office.
I wasn't able to find
the original desk,
but I had this put
together for you.
This house had amazing antiques.
Thomas loved these
carved pieces.
Not too many remain.
A lot of the wall sconces were
originally lit by candles.
[mysterious music]
There's one just like
this one upstairs.
This was the dining room.
I'm so glad you've
come home from LA.
Whatever the reason.
- Even the crazy breakup
with my boyfriend?
Wow, Aunt Savannah ...
This place, not that I'm looking
a gift horse in the mouth,
but how can I afford it?
You know I have to start my
business over from scratch.
- Don't worry about it.
Some things are meant to happen.
[ghostly warping]
[mysterious music]
This house was built
by the Parishes
and it was always
meant to belong to us.
To you.
It seems as if nobody
wanted to live here.
- Why?
- It's got ghosts.
- What kind of ghost?
- It's hard to say.
People just have strange
feelings like they don't belong.
- It's not how I feel.
I feel right at home
as if I've always been here.
[soft music]
- Yes, there's more.
Apparently, Thomas
built it for his wife.
Of course there was money
in the family back then.
This is the bathroom
I fixed up for you.
And here's one of
the many empty rooms.
- Tad roomy for two people.
- Well, I think they were
planning to have a big family.
- They died during the
Spanish Flu, right?
- Well, the wife
Holly, died just after
their first child was born.
My great-grandmother.
Very sad.
Oh, this is your bedroom.
All these furnishings
are original.
- It's so beautiful.
Anyway, Great
Grandma Holly died.
It's odd calling her that, she
wasn't much older than you.
But nobody knows what
happened to Thomas.
That's another reason
why it took so long
to get this house out of limbo.
All the lawyers have
family in-fighting,
but it was always meant
to go to a Parish.
And you're the last
direct descendant.
- Ghosts or lawyers, I
don't know which is worse.
Doesn't make any sense?
It's a big house for
two, even bigger for one.
Wouldn't it be better--
- Rose.
It's yours.
Don't sell it.
Don't give it away.
Your past is here.
Your roots, who you are is here.
- Who I am?
- Rose, do you
wanna talk about it?
- About ...
What is there to say?
When it was happening,
it felt like
how could this be
happening to me?
Jack and I were so different.
I'm so different.
And then after the fact,
it was all so typical.
He's a liar and cheater
and I wouldn't see it.
And then I did.
The rest is just all the
usual ugly, ridiculous stuff.
- Well, I guess ...
That's what there is to say.
Come on.
Let's finish the tour.
- Okay, let's see if we
can scare of some ghosts.
- This is the attic.
The servants used
to live up here.
See, you ring for them.
And then over there, they'd
know who needed them.
- That's handy.
[soft female vocal music]
It's all so sad.
He built this house for her
and hardly got to live in it.
And now there's hardly a
trace of either one of them.
- That's not true here.
You're here.
There's something
else I wanna show you
while there's still
some daylight.
- What?
No, there's more house?
- Yes.
[ghostly warping]
[mysterious music]
- Wow, looks like a park.
And this was the coach house
way back when they used to
keep horses and flowers too.
- It's such a big property.
[gentle music]
- This doesn't make any sense.
How can I possibly
hold on to all of this.
I mean, to take care
of a house like this.
- Listen to me, Rose.
Sometimes a thousand
pieces come together
to make something happen.
Lonnie, the taxes, all of it.
You just have to believe me.
It all works out, so long
as you take the house.
I'm afraid I have to go.
I'll try and get back tomorrow.
Oh, there's a groceries
in the kitchen.
I'll call you in the morning.
[somber music]
[keyboard clicking]
[enchanting music]
[gentle music]
[playful ghostly music]
- Have you come
back to me at last?
[gentle music]
[shower water pouring]
[tense music]
[tense music]
- I made you breakfast.
- Oh, I'm not hungry.
- How's the office going?
Finish setting up?
- Just about.
- Try and eat something.
- I'm not hungry.
- I know, try anyway.
You had trouble sleeping?
- No, actually I slept fine.
In fact, I overslept.
I'm still tired, strange dreams.
- What sort of dreams?
- I don't really remember.
I don't think that
there were bad dreams.
Just sort of, a
sense of a presence.
Sort of a longing sadness.
- Rose, do you think that
maybe what you're feeling here
isn't coming from this house,
but maybe it's something that
you brought here with you,
something that's inside you?
- I had breakup, Aunt Savannah.
Not a breakdown.
I'm not emotionally fragile.
I've felt things and
I've sensed things.
And I ...
I think that there's
something in this house.
- Okay.
I'm sorry.
- Aren't you the one that
said I was meant to be here.
Now what has changed
since yesterday?
Rose ...
I don't know what's
going on in this house.
If there were ghosts or ...
Even what a ghost really is.
[gentle music]
- Rose, if you need someone,
you know I'm here
for you, right?
[gentle music]
[ghostly breathes]
- Thomas.
You're keeping me from working.
[tense music]
[Rose gasps]
[glass shatters]
Listen to me, you're
not gonna make me think
that that was my imagination.
So don't do that anymore.
Unless you're
trying to scare me.
And if you are, that was
a childish way to do it.
Just please, just no more
jumping out at me, okay?
I gotta paint.
[gentle music]
I said no games.
[playful music]
That's enough.
[enchanting music]
[upbeat romantic guitar music]
- [Rose] Thomas.
- Who's there?
Holly, is that you?
- [Rose] We're flying.
- [Thomas] Our spirits are.
- [Rose] Your soul is free.
You're not bound to pass.
- [Thomas] No, I am bound.
- Holly's grave.
That was supposed to be yours.
- I've been lost in the
darkness for so long.
'Til you came.
- Thomas, why do
I feel like this.
Why do I feel like
my hearts breaking.
- True love.
We're stayed too
long, we must return.
- Thomas.
[mysterious music]
You're here, aren't you?
Aren't you?
- [Thomas] Yes.
- Where?
Why aren't you showing yourself?
Please.
- [Thomas] It's so
hard, hard to speak.
Trapped, bound to this
place for so long.
So little life force remains,
so little earthly
substance remains.
So little of me remains.
I have no more than a memory.
No breath.
- Thomas, where are you?
Thomas, please listen to me.
I know that you've been waiting
for Holly for a long time.
I'm not her.
I'm sorry, but I can't give you
what you've been waiting
for all this time.
I can't be the wife that
you wanted with Holly.
- Thomas, maybe I can
give you something else.
Maybe I can share with
you my life force.
[gentle music]
[romantic music]
[banging on door]
[doorbell ringing]
- Rose!
Rose, open the door.
[Rose moaning in pleasure]
Rose, open the door or
I'm gonna use my key.
Rose?
Rose, are you here?
[soft gentle music]
Goodbye, Rose.
My Rose.
[gentle music]
[enchanting music]
- [Rose] Thomas, your soul is
no longer bound by the earth.
You're free.
- [Thomas] You're free.
We're souls together.
Our souls will always be free.
[playful mysterious music]
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
[wolves howling]
[mysterious music]
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
- My God.
[giggles]
Aunt Savannah, it looks
like something out of
"Gone With The Wind.
- Doesn't it?
And it's all yours now.
[ghostly warping]
- What's wrong?
[mysterious music]
- Nothing.
- Come on, I'll
show you the house.
- Wow.
[gentle music]
- I'm glad we were finally
able to get it back.
Come on, I'll show you around.
- Oh my, this is insane.
- I've only had a few months
to get some of the rooms painted
and what's left of
the original furniture
is still in storage, but
I wanted you to move in.
- Oh, thank you.
I can't believe it.
This is really beautiful.
- My great-grandfather's study.
I wasn't allowed in here.
I've set it up for you
to use as an office.
I wasn't able to find
the original desk,
but I had this put
together for you.
This house had amazing antiques.
Thomas loved these
carved pieces.
Not too many remain.
A lot of the wall sconces were
originally lit by candles.
[mysterious music]
There's one just like
this one upstairs.
This was the dining room.
I'm so glad you've
come home from LA.
Whatever the reason.
- Even the crazy breakup
with my boyfriend?
Wow, Aunt Savannah ...
This place, not that I'm looking
a gift horse in the mouth,
but how can I afford it?
You know I have to start my
business over from scratch.
- Don't worry about it.
Some things are meant to happen.
[ghostly warping]
[mysterious music]
This house was built
by the Parishes
and it was always
meant to belong to us.
To you.
It seems as if nobody
wanted to live here.
- Why?
- It's got ghosts.
- What kind of ghost?
- It's hard to say.
People just have strange
feelings like they don't belong.
- It's not how I feel.
I feel right at home
as if I've always been here.
[soft music]
- Yes, there's more.
Apparently, Thomas
built it for his wife.
Of course there was money
in the family back then.
This is the bathroom
I fixed up for you.
And here's one of
the many empty rooms.
- Tad roomy for two people.
- Well, I think they were
planning to have a big family.
- They died during the
Spanish Flu, right?
- Well, the wife
Holly, died just after
their first child was born.
My great-grandmother.
Very sad.
Oh, this is your bedroom.
All these furnishings
are original.
- It's so beautiful.
Anyway, Great
Grandma Holly died.
It's odd calling her that, she
wasn't much older than you.
But nobody knows what
happened to Thomas.
That's another reason
why it took so long
to get this house out of limbo.
All the lawyers have
family in-fighting,
but it was always meant
to go to a Parish.
And you're the last
direct descendant.
- Ghosts or lawyers, I
don't know which is worse.
Doesn't make any sense?
It's a big house for
two, even bigger for one.
Wouldn't it be better--
- Rose.
It's yours.
Don't sell it.
Don't give it away.
Your past is here.
Your roots, who you are is here.
- Who I am?
- Rose, do you
wanna talk about it?
- About ...
What is there to say?
When it was happening,
it felt like
how could this be
happening to me?
Jack and I were so different.
I'm so different.
And then after the fact,
it was all so typical.
He's a liar and cheater
and I wouldn't see it.
And then I did.
The rest is just all the
usual ugly, ridiculous stuff.
- Well, I guess ...
That's what there is to say.
Come on.
Let's finish the tour.
- Okay, let's see if we
can scare of some ghosts.
- This is the attic.
The servants used
to live up here.
See, you ring for them.
And then over there, they'd
know who needed them.
- That's handy.
[soft female vocal music]
It's all so sad.
He built this house for her
and hardly got to live in it.
And now there's hardly a
trace of either one of them.
- That's not true here.
You're here.
There's something
else I wanna show you
while there's still
some daylight.
- What?
No, there's more house?
- Yes.
[ghostly warping]
[mysterious music]
- Wow, looks like a park.
And this was the coach house
way back when they used to
keep horses and flowers too.
- It's such a big property.
[gentle music]
- This doesn't make any sense.
How can I possibly
hold on to all of this.
I mean, to take care
of a house like this.
- Listen to me, Rose.
Sometimes a thousand
pieces come together
to make something happen.
Lonnie, the taxes, all of it.
You just have to believe me.
It all works out, so long
as you take the house.
I'm afraid I have to go.
I'll try and get back tomorrow.
Oh, there's a groceries
in the kitchen.
I'll call you in the morning.
[somber music]
[keyboard clicking]
[enchanting music]
[gentle music]
[playful ghostly music]
- Have you come
back to me at last?
[gentle music]
[shower water pouring]
[tense music]
[tense music]
- I made you breakfast.
- Oh, I'm not hungry.
- How's the office going?
Finish setting up?
- Just about.
- Try and eat something.
- I'm not hungry.
- I know, try anyway.
You had trouble sleeping?
- No, actually I slept fine.
In fact, I overslept.
I'm still tired, strange dreams.
- What sort of dreams?
- I don't really remember.
I don't think that
there were bad dreams.
Just sort of, a
sense of a presence.
Sort of a longing sadness.
- Rose, do you think that
maybe what you're feeling here
isn't coming from this house,
but maybe it's something that
you brought here with you,
something that's inside you?
- I had breakup, Aunt Savannah.
Not a breakdown.
I'm not emotionally fragile.
I've felt things and
I've sensed things.
And I ...
I think that there's
something in this house.
- Okay.
I'm sorry.
- Aren't you the one that
said I was meant to be here.
Now what has changed
since yesterday?
Rose ...
I don't know what's
going on in this house.
If there were ghosts or ...
Even what a ghost really is.
[gentle music]
- Rose, if you need someone,
you know I'm here
for you, right?
[gentle music]
[ghostly breathes]
- Thomas.
You're keeping me from working.
[tense music]
[Rose gasps]
[glass shatters]
Listen to me, you're
not gonna make me think
that that was my imagination.
So don't do that anymore.
Unless you're
trying to scare me.
And if you are, that was
a childish way to do it.
Just please, just no more
jumping out at me, okay?
I gotta paint.
[gentle music]
I said no games.
[playful music]
That's enough.
[enchanting music]
[upbeat romantic guitar music]
- [Rose] Thomas.
- Who's there?
Holly, is that you?
- [Rose] We're flying.
- [Thomas] Our spirits are.
- [Rose] Your soul is free.
You're not bound to pass.
- [Thomas] No, I am bound.
- Holly's grave.
That was supposed to be yours.
- I've been lost in the
darkness for so long.
'Til you came.
- Thomas, why do
I feel like this.
Why do I feel like
my hearts breaking.
- True love.
We're stayed too
long, we must return.
- Thomas.
[mysterious music]
You're here, aren't you?
Aren't you?
- [Thomas] Yes.
- Where?
Why aren't you showing yourself?
Please.
- [Thomas] It's so
hard, hard to speak.
Trapped, bound to this
place for so long.
So little life force remains,
so little earthly
substance remains.
So little of me remains.
I have no more than a memory.
No breath.
- Thomas, where are you?
Thomas, please listen to me.
I know that you've been waiting
for Holly for a long time.
I'm not her.
I'm sorry, but I can't give you
what you've been waiting
for all this time.
I can't be the wife that
you wanted with Holly.
- Thomas, maybe I can
give you something else.
Maybe I can share with
you my life force.
[gentle music]
[romantic music]
[banging on door]
[doorbell ringing]
- Rose!
Rose, open the door.
[Rose moaning in pleasure]
Rose, open the door or
I'm gonna use my key.
Rose?
Rose, are you here?
[soft gentle music]
Goodbye, Rose.
My Rose.
[gentle music]
[enchanting music]
- [Rose] Thomas, your soul is
no longer bound by the earth.
You're free.
- [Thomas] You're free.
We're souls together.
Our souls will always be free.
[playful mysterious music]
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.