Cherie is a young law student who is denied career advancement by her sexist boss, James R Fuller. Rather than defending clients, she is forced to carry out secretarial duties instead but after she is accused by James of scheduling a client meeting at the same time as his anniversary dinner, she is given the opportunity by James to meet with the client. After Cherie successfully defends her client from an accusation of fraud, James gives her the opportunity to work directly with him. Cherie takes this opportunity and proves herself as an effective lawyer. ..
Ethan Sacks, a client of Cherie’s, showed his aggressive side during their dinner meeting when a dog started barking. He told Cherie his fear stemmed from a childhood incident where he was bitten by a dog, but this was likely a lie. His whole identity may have been fake, which is something the dog could sense. ..
Cherie’s life is put in danger by this seemingly inauspicious man.
Ethan is a mysterious figure who appears in the film Cherie. He seems to have a vendetta against her, and it’s not clear why. He’s also shown to be quite skilled in martial arts, which could make him a dangerous opponent. Let’s take a closer look at the movie to see if we can figure out who this character is and what his motives might be. ..
What happens after the dinner meeting?
Cherie and Ethan had a nice evening together despite the dog barking. They had dinner and then spent some more time enjoying each other’s company. ..
Ethan and Cherie spend their time together and she notices that his alarm clock is set to 5.25. This might seem insignificant but later in the movie, we learn more about the importance of this.
Ethan invites Cherie into his home for a drink after the evening’s work. Cherie is unsure about going in at first, as she has a child at home to look after but as her daughter is with the babysitter, she eventually agrees to his offer. This is a bad move!
After she enters the house, Ethan holds his hand up to the camera as if forbidding us entry, before closing the front door on us. This leaves us wondering what happens next. ..
For a few seconds, all is quiet but then we hear sounds that suggest Cherie might be in trouble. Moments later, she emerges from the house, looking terrified and disheveled. It’s clear that Ethan has attacked her and to escape from further harm, Cherie flees into the night.
Cherie ran through the streets of Los Angeles looking for help. She bumped into two women and asked to use their phone so she could call 911. The women didn’t seem to take her pleas for help seriously, but one of them called the police on her behalf. When the police arrived, Cherie was taken to the police station and it can be presumed that she is now safe. ..
Unfortunately, Cherie’s problems are far from over.
What happens at the police station?
After Cherie tells the police her story, the officer in charge disbelieves her and arrests her for public intoxication. He locks her up with another woman who initially offers the traumatized Cherie some comfort.
Cherie tells her cellmate about the night she met Ethan, and the woman realizes that the same thing happened to a friend of hers. We learn that this friend also met Ethan and shortly after, she was found dead. ..
The woman tells Cherie that she is a “marked woman.” To escape from Ethan, Cherie is told that she needs to meet the “First Lady.” She also tells her that Ethan “controls men.”
The woman in the cell is not given an answer as to what she means by her statement. Cherie, the woman’s companion, is also let out of the cell soon after. ..
Ethan is allowed into the cell by a police officer who is presumably under his control.
Ethan tells her that he wants to play a game. Unfortunately, he doesn’t whip out a Monopoly board or a pack of cards. He wants to play a different kind of game in which he hunts Cherie through the night. He tells her that he will let her go if she manages to survive until sunrise.
Cherie reluctantly agrees to a game of truth or dare, but is given a head start by her husband. ..
What does Cherie do next?
Cherie has just been fired from her job and is looking for a way to get back into the good graces of her boss. She asks a taxi driver to take her to her boss’s home so she can apologize in person. ..
James welcomes Cherie with a smile and assures her that she will be safe. He asks his wife Judy to make Cherie some tea, which she does while Cherie showers and gets into a fresh set of clothes. ..
Cherie checks James’ computer and finds out that her boss had arranged meetings between Ethan and some of the other women who worked at the law firm. It’s clear from this that the scheduling conflict was a lie and that James intended to hurt Cherie and her female colleagues by arranging meetings between them and this supposed psycho. ..
Judy is not in cahoots with her husband or Ethan, and she gives Cherie information that could save her life. She warns her that Ethan can smell her and that she must stay clean as best as she can so as not to give away her scent. ..
This is something that proves to be difficult for Cherie throughout the movie as Ethan can smell her menstrual blood.
After Judy’s warning, Cherie then flees James’s house.
Does Cherie find safety?
Cherie and Trey go to Trey’s house where Cherie tells him about her experience with James and how she feels about him. Trey then helps Cherie to get back on her feet and they all end up sleeping together that night.
After Dawn realizes Cherie is in trouble, she becomes more willing to cooperate. Cherie showers again while Trey goes out to buy her some tampons. ..
Dawn and her friends were unprepared for a fight when Ethan turned up at their door. We heard gunfire and screams, and it was clear that he had the upper hand. Soon after, both Dawn and Cherie made a shocking discovery: Ethan had killed everyone! ..
Cherie is faced with Ethan again, but before he can do her any harm, Trey arrives with the tampons. He steps up to confront Ethan but before he can swing a punch, Ethan bites his throat and rips his head clean off.
Cherie and I both realized at this point that Ethan is not human. ..
What is Ethan?
Cherie heads to a local church in search of a cross and holy water to use against Ethan, who she believes is a demon. She finds the priest there and asks for them, but is refused. Cherie then takes matters into her own hands and uses the priest’s cross and holy water to kill Ethan.
The priest is not a help, as it turns out the person Cherie had been talking to was Ethan in the form of the priest who is lying unconscious a few feet away.
Cherie asks Ethan to reveal his true identity, which he promptly does. However, we don’t get to see the supernatural being that he turns into. Cherie is suitably terrified by what she sees, but before the beast can kill her, the priest wakes up and stabs it in the back. He then points Cherie to a nearby escape hatch which, for some inexplicable reason, leads to a nightclub. Perhaps the priest was prone to partying! ..
Cherie steals clothes and a phone from the club. She uses the phone to call the First Lady, whose number she finds on a poster of a missing woman.
She heads to the First Lady’s location – the Grand Spa – and it’s here where Cherie learns more about the First Lady and Ethan.
First Lady reveals she is “first angel” and on mission to hunt down Ethan, a corrupted angel-turned-demon who was sent to Earth to guide humanity and maintain order. But for him, this meant giving men power over women. This clues us into Ethan’s actions as, in feminist age, he presumably felt he had to wipe out any woman who didn’t “know their place” in the world. It’s likely that he was summoned by James, Cherie’s boss, when she tried to “rise above her station” in pursuit of career advancement. ..
Cherie is asked by the First Lady to take down Ethan. She tells Cherie the best time to do this is sunrise as Ethan is susceptible to sunlight. The time of sunrise is 5.25, which is the time that Ethan had set his alarm for, presumably so he knew it was time to find shelter.
Does Cherie defeat Ethan?
Cherie travels to the harbour amusement park and cuts herself so Ethan can smell her blood and be lured in to her location. ..
Ethan turns up and after a confrontation with Cherie, he knocks her unconscious by smashing her into a mirror. When she wakes up, she realises she has been pinned to a wall. Ethan tells her that his aim is to keep girls like her in their place.
Cherie feigns defeat and this causes Ethan to release her. He promptly tries to lie down with her, presumably to have sex, but when the alarm on his phone goes off, she grabs a nearby rock and throws it through the glass wall. ..
The First Lady and her disciples threw stones at the glass from outside, causing further gaps in the wall to be opened up to allow in more sunlight. This caused sunlight to enter the room. ..
As expected, Ethan is injured by the sunrays and he starts bleeding black blood. The First Lady sets the blood on fire and Ethan is then engulfed in flames.
After Ethan is turned to dust, Cherie is now safe. ..
What is the film’s meaning?
However, the film is more than just a horror thriller. It is also about the battle between a woman and a demon, and the consequences that can come from trying to fight them.
The film is about the attempt by men to keep women in their place.
The film’s message is clear: Women are not to be silenced. Throughout the film, Cherie became another victim of our misogynistic society but by the end, she was able to stand up to the patriarchy which was symbolised by Ethan.
This is a horror film that encourages all women to fight for equality and remind men that they are not the dominant species on this planet.
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