Synopsis:
Tim plans to spend his 21st birthday at his Scottish estate with eight of his closest friends. Amongst the excitement of rediscovering old friendships, no one minds that a snowstorm has cut them off from the rest of the outside world. Everything is set for the perfect weekend, until one of the guests stumbles across an old history of the house with the power to unleash the horrors of Scotland's past. The book tells of Murray, the old Scot patriot, who has had his eyes torn out and his house taken away during the English invasion. Intent on exacting bloody revenge on the reunited English friends Murray possesses the body of a guest and turns him into a murderer. He seems impossible to stop as when the possessed guest is killed, Murray passes into the killer to continue his mission of murdering all nine of them. It is survival of the fittest as the friendships are pushed to the limit. No one can guess who the next killer will be or how to break the chain. Only one will survive.

PloT:

A birthday celebration becomes a supernatural nightmare in director Andrew Green's feature film debut Nine Lives. Shot entirely on location in the house Robert Altman used for Gosford Park, the paranormal psychological horror is described by the 21 year-old director as Peter's Friends meets The Others.

The nine lives in the cast are Paris Hilton (Zoolander), Rosie Fellner (Urban Gothic), Vivienne Harvey (Holby City), Amelia Warner (Quills), Patrick Kennedy (Spooks), David Nicolle (Band of Brothers), Ben Peyton (The Bill), James Schlesinger (Cold Comfort Farm and director John Schlesinger's nephew) and Lex Shrapnel (K19-The Widowmaker).

They play close friends invited to spend a party weekend at an ancestral Scottish estate. With snow falling hard outside, and the merriment growing inside, an unexpected guest arrives to spoil the festivities. The spirit of the mansion's original owner is accidentally released from an ancient library book and the Braveheart hero, tortured and killed by English marauders, seeks a terrible vengeance for past misdeeds. As the murderous spirit invades each reveler in turn, it's up to the frightened remainder to decide who is possessed, why the spirit moves on and how to break the sinister chain. It's the survival of the fittest as friendships are pushed to their distrustful limits when no one can ever guess who the killer is at any given time. Only one will live to tell the shocking tale - but who?