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Ann (surname unknown) is the protagonistic villain of the 2012 horror film The Butterfly Room. Ann is a solitary woman who's revealed to be dangerous and violent, her obsessive relationships with people around her escalating to murder.
She's portrayed by British iconic horror actress Barbara Steele.
Biography[]
Ann is an unhinged mother whose daughter Dorothy is estranged from her. Ann drowned and tried to kill Dorothy when she was child, so Dorothy cut all ties with her, especially when Dorothy had her own child, a boy named William. Ann became shut into her apartment, bitter to strangers, and obsessive over families with little kids, particularly girls. In between her collecting dead butterflies to pin, Ann hoped to project Dorothy onto the children she met to get close to them, but she was specifically hoping the children and families were innocently predisposed and happy so that she may relate with them. her hopes began to slowly be dashed when a girl named Alice asked for money to buy a doll, promising to pay Ann back. It was a con her mother Monika, a prostitute, instructed her to carry out, which horrified and devastated Ann. Ann became enraged and decided to get payback, showing Monika down an elevator shaft. She then lured Alice back to the apartment and killed her, leaving her corpse inside her room filled with pinned butterflies.
Ann became so irritable afterward, she kicked the ladder a groundskeeper was standing on to severely injure him. His boss, Nick, is completely unaware of what happened and apologizes. When Nick sends his subordinate to offer Ann some repairs, the employee says he saw Ann fighting with Alice, which Ann admits she didn't notice. Lying she wants him to work in the butterfly room, she kills him with acid spray in his face she purchased from a taxidermist earlier. Ann then lies to Nick she kicked the employee out and sent him off for being rude, hoping Nick wouldn't ask questions. Simultaneously, Ann ingratiates herself with Julia, a little girl in the same apartment building, after she's locked out of the house while her mother Claudia is away. Claudia takes Julia being in Ann's apartment as gracious and thanks her, inviting Ann to dinner with the family later. Ann starts to have troublesome feelings about Claudia when she reveals she's pregnant. Ann tries to speak to William outside his school, but Dorothy chases her away and tells her to stay away. Ann later kills Olga, a spinster Monika pretended to be during her con, as Olga was a witness. When Dorothy finds out Ann is getting close to Julia, she warns Ann to leave her alone as well. After Claudia sets Ann off by telling her she's having an abortion, Dorothy tells Claudia about Ann's abuses. When Claudia confronts Ann and shoves her, Ann kills Claudia. Alice finds several victims of Ann in the apartment when she tries to get away. When Ann chases Julia out into the street, Dorothy runs Ann over with a car and kills her. Dorothy adopts Julia, though when William has a fit, the camera zooms in on Dorothy's expression, leaving ambiguous to the audience how dangerous she is being Ann's daughter.
Personality[]
Ann seemed like a grouchy old woman at first, but peeling her layers back revealed a complicated, dangerous, enigmatic personality she held. Ann was unstable and dangerous to people around her, especially children, but she believed she was a better person than she was and hoped to ingratiate herself to kids, in the belief she was entitled to being with them and they wanted her if they were "pure". Ann despised adults who got in the way of her bonding with children or were bad influences, which showed her as paranoid, depressed, and with a level of emotional apprehension that revealed her tentative ego. Ann imprinted herself on girls she hoped to bond with, in the hopes they would reciprocate. She would easily be bothered and offended, but what horrified her most was the abuse and neglect of children, or their poor influence from adults. The deepest cuts she felt were when children themselves, including her own daughter, demeaned or betrayed her, even just in her own mind. Ann wanted no harm to Dorothy, out of still wanting her back, but she felt other families fair game so long as her own family and freedom weren't torn apart completely. Ann would become more unhinged, temperamental, and violent as she saw the unsavory characters around her, but as she began losing hope of the connections she wanted, she became more furious and sadistic with her murders. She would even hurt people who aggravated her, especially saving her rage for everyone she found horrible and with no place taking her time and being in her vicinity. Her desperation would be her undoing, as her frenzy left her too destructive even to protect herself.
Victims[]
- Dorothy (assaulted; drowned)
- Monika (pushed down an elevator shaft)
- Alice
- Unidentified groundskeeper (kicked out the ladder he was standing on; later sprayed acid in his face)
- Olga
- Claudia