Identity [2003]

Identity [2003]
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Malcolm Rivers (Vince) is a psychotic killer awaiting execution for several vicious murders that took place at a motel. His psychiatrist, Doctor Mallick (Molina), has discovered a journal belonging to Rivers that may explain why he really committed the murders. With this late evidence brought forth, a new hearing takes place on a stormy night in which Mallick will try to persuade the Judge (Holmes Osborne) to spare Rivers. Meanwhile, a group of ten strangers find themselves stranded in the middle of the storm in a remote motel in the Nevada desert, run by the manager Larry Washington (Hawkes). The ten strangers are a limo driver, Ed Dakota (Cusack); an 80's movie star, Caroline Suzanne (De Mornay); a cop, Officer Rhodes (Liotta), who is transporting a killer, Robert Maine (Busey); a prostitute, Paris Nevada (Peet); a pair of newlyweds, Lou (Scott) and Ginny (DuVall) Isiana; and a family in crisis, George (McGinley), Alice (Leila Kenzle) and Timmy (Loehr) York. With the phone lines down due to the storm, the group prepare to spend the night, taking care of those that have been injured through their arrival. However, the group quickly finds that there is an unknown murderer present, killing off each of the guests and leaving behind one of the motel's room keys to be found, starting with Room 10's key and counting down.

Caroline Suzanne is the first to be killed, and Ed finds her head in a dryer. Ed thinks that the convict killed her and when he, Rhodes, and Larry check the convict, they discover he has escaped.

All the other people become increasingly worried, and Ginny runs to her room despite been told to stay put. Her husband Lou chases after her but is also mysteriously murdered. Meanwhile, Ed and Rhodes find the con, knock him out, tie him to a pole and put Larry on duty guarding him. Everyone calms down when they realize that the con is caught, but he is later found dead with Larry's baseball bat in his throat. Rhodes is furious, and Ed finds Suzanne's wallet in Larry's box. Larry then panics and holds Paris at knife-point, but she escapes and discovers a dead body (Stuart M. Besser) in Larry's freezer. With everyone distracted by the frozen corpse, Larry attempts to escape in his truck, claiming he did not kill anybody. He then accidentally runs over George, killing him instantly while George saved his stepson, Timothy, from being run over.

The survivors tie up Larry who tells them his story but does not get much sympathy from Rhodes, but the others believe him when he says he did not kill anyone. Meanwhile Timothy's mother dies, presumably from her injuries (Ed accidentally ran her over). Ed then tells Paris, Timmy, and Ginny to leave the motel, against Rhodes' wishes. Ginny and Timmy both die when their car blows up but their bodies are nowhere to be seen. The remaining four discover that all the bodies have now disappeared and that all ten share the same birthday. Paris also discovers that Rhodes is a convict as well and that he stabbed the officer to death and took his place. Rhodes sees her look through his car and attempts to kill her, but she is saved by Larry, who in turn is shot dead by Rhodes.

At the hearing, the contents of Malcolm's journal are revealed, indicating the prisoner suffers from an extreme case of dissociative identity disorder, harboring ten distinct personalities. Mallick is able to bring forth one of Malcolm's personalities, Ed, revealing that events at the motel are occurring inside Malcolm's mind, each personality being a distinct person though all sharing the same birth date. After hearing of events in the motel, Mallick informs the Ed personality that he must find and eliminate the hostile personality in order to prevent Malcolm from being executed lest all the personalities be killed off. In the motel setting, as the group is dwindled down, Ed believes that the personality of Rhodes is the murderer, and sacrifices himself to kill Rhodes, leaving only Paris alive. When Mallick demonstrates that that homicidal personality is dead, the Judge decides to place Malcolm in a mental institution under Mallick's care.

As Malcolm is driven along with Mallick to the institution, in Malcolm's mind, Paris has driven away from the motel to her hometown in Florida, Frostproof. As she tends an orange grove, she discovers the Room 1 motel key in the ground, and turns around to find the young Timmy standing behind her. Timmy, the true homicidal personality, had orchestrated all the deaths at the motel, and made it appear that he had been killed as well; he finishes his task by killing Paris, reciting Hughes Mearns's "Antigonish". Now driven only by Timmy, Malcolm strangles Mallick, and the transport truck runs off the side of the road.