Please answer the following question: Build a movie plot around this: What does Ashley use to murder her family? with an axe
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This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)The film opens with Super 8 footage depicting a family of four standing beneath a tree with grain-sacks over their heads and rope-nooses around their necks. An unseen figure pulls at a rope attached to a partially sawed-through branch of the tree, causing their deaths by hanging.Months later, true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) moves into a home with his wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance) and their two children: 7-year-old Ashley (Clare Foley), an artist who is allowed to paint on her walls and 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario), who suffers from night terrors. The camera moves and the tree with the partially sawed-through branch comes into view, revealing to the audience that this house is the one where the Stevenson family was murdered in the opening scene.Only Ellison is aware that the house they are moving into was the scene of a crime. He intends to use the case of the murdered family as the basis for his new book and hopes that his research will reveal the fate of the Stevenson family's fifth member, a 10-year-old girl named Stephanie who disappeared following the murders.That night, during dinner, Ellison and his family talk about the book. Later that night, while Ellison is working, he hears noises but it is revealed that it is just Ashley, unable to find the bathroom. Later that night Ellison discovers Trevor in a box, naked and screaming, having experienced another night terror. He carries him back inside.Ellison finds a box (along with a black scorpion which terrifies him) in the attic that contains a projector and several reels of Super 8mm footage that are each labeled as innocent home movies. Ellison discovers that the films are actually snuff films depicting different families being murdered in various ways by Kailee. The families are being tied up by Kailee to...