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cabin having gathered firewood. At Dana's urging, Gina sets out to leave the property on foot, only to stumble upon Amy's corpse. Armed with Amy's gun, Gina returns to the cabin. There, she finds Dana bound and gagged, and is confronted by Mark, brandishing a pistol. Gina kills Mark, after which Dana reveals that she and Mark had planned to murder Gina and Amy, fearing they were responsible for the killings and conspiring against them. Before Dana can enact her revenge, the masked killer appears and slashes her throat.
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to the property, but the girls force her to leave after finding him having sex with her. While wandering away from the property in the woods, the groupie is murdered by the masked killer. The next day, Susie is attacked and drowned in the lake, and Gina discovers her body. She phones the police, but
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Gina flees into the woods, with the killer closely pursuing her. Elmo appears, and Gina assumes him to be the killer. Moments later, Mike, who has been unable to contact Gina, arrives, and bludgeons Elmo to death. Gina presumes she is finally safe, before Mike reveals he is in fact the murderer,
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