The Greenskeeper

### Goals

Kill his brother and take over his golf club (partly succeeded).Kill his nephew and inherit his brother's fortune (failed).

### Crimes

Serial killing

“ Let's start at the beginning, shall we? Your father (my brother) married your mom. He got a son, a pretty wife, and inherited the country club by marriage. Pretty sweet deal. Their lives seemed almost perfect. Until one day... your father went to have a little accident. Boo-hoo. You see, your dad always did things without thinking about the consequences. Like one day, he was working on the mower without checking the fuel line and somebody accidentally dropped a match. Well, I always did enjoy a good barbecue. „ ~ The Greenskeeper confessing himself to Allen.

“ To divert attention away from me you couldn't be the only one to die. I had to make it look like a... random killing spree. Hence the deaths of your little friends. Besides, less members makes it easier to get a better tee time. And I could blame it all on the Greenskeeper who lives out in the woods! He was the perfect scapegoat. Did he scare you little girl? Were you frightened by the big bad monster? Sometimes things just aren't what they seem, aren't they? „ ~ The Greenskeeper explaining his plan.

**John Anderson**, better known for his nickname **The Greenskeeper** is the main antagonist of the 2002 slasher film of the same name.

John is the co-owner of the Summerisle Country Club, one of the most prestigious golf clubs in the Atlanta area. Unknowingly to everyone, he took over the place by trying to murder his brother, who was married with the real owner of the place, Mrs. Anderson. Now John plans to initiate a murder spree in the club and get his nephew killed so he can inherit his brother's fortune, as well as having the place completely for him alone.

He was played by Bruce Taylor.

## Biography

### Background

John was the brother of a man named George Anderson, who was a greenskeeper working at the Summerisle Country Club. Despite his job, he managed to marry the owner of the place and inherit it, as well as having a son named Allen. John was completely jealous of him, as he believed he didn't deserve to have that opportunity. He planned a scheme to get his brother killed in his work and seem like it was an accident. To achieve this, John sabotages one of the lawnmowers of the place and turns it on fire while his brother was working, supposedly killing him in the explosion. This story resonated in the club as some part of an urban legend called ''The Greenskeeper'', a serial killer that surrounds the place brutally murdering unsuspecting members with gardener tools. Unknowingly to everyone, George survived this incident, although greatly deformed. He isolated himself in a old shack near to the club so he could never be seen again. John knew this, but let him be as he was completely irrelevant by that point.

He married George's wife and transformed in the co-owner of the place. However, his entire brother's fortune as well as the leadership of the club was passed to his nephew in his twenty-fifth birthday. John thinks Allen doesn't deserve that place for being a foolish junkie, and plans to get him killed in order to completely inherit the place. To divert attention from him, he plans to mask Allen's murder with a random killing spree in the place and blame his brother for it. Dressed as the Greenskeeper and armed with gardener tools, John plans to bring terror to the green.

### *The Greenskeeper*

Allen Anderson wishes to be an screenwriter, but his inability to come up with ideas made him a junkie loser that lives with his girlfriend Mary Katherine who constantly loathes him. He is the stepson of John Anderson, co-owner and president of the Summerisle Country Club, but even with that he could only gain job as an assistant greenskeeper of the place. He befriends the greenskeeper in charge, Otis, who turned in his friend and mentor. Allen has constant nightmares regarding a figure dressed as a greenskeeper who assaults and kills his friends, as well as having a charred face behind the veil. Allen's birthday is about to come and John plans a familiar dinner to celebrate it.

Some of Allen's friends (who are club members) plan to sneak in the club at night and have a big party. Chas jokingly tries to warn them about The Greenskeeper, a local urban legend about a man with a deformed face who lives in a shack outside of the club and has sworn vengeance against its members. He tells the story about Old Man Rivers, a bad golf player who got himself killed after entering The Greenskeeper's cabin and finding a human head. He claims to not know about how he exactly got killed, but a flashback reveals that he was beheaded with garden shears.

Chet, Champ and Chas discuss about random stuff but are then interrupted by Chip, their annoying friend. They try to invite him to the party but he declines and decides to golf. Chip loses his ball and tries to find it, but is surprised by a greenskeeper whom he mistakes for Otis. He is then murdered by this mysterious person, bludgeoned to death with a golf club. His body is discovered hours later by John and his henchmen the officer Cox. He orders him to keep everything quiet and not make noise for a few days.

When the birthday dinner comes, Mrs. Anderson tries to greet her son with a surprise gift, but is interrupted by John before she has the chance to do so. Allen invites Elena to the party, who is a waitress of the place and also his true love interest.

The night of the party comes, and everyone is preparing for the occasion, including the Greenskeeper. Chas comes late to the party, but instead of reuniting with his friends, he decides to play some tennis. Unfortunately for him, the tennis ball machine has been recently filled with nails. Chas is later killed by one of these nails being shot to his head. Chas' girlfriend is later murdered as well in the bathrooms by the Greenskeeper, being impaled through her throat with a towel rack.

Meanwhile in the party, Allen gets pissed with his friends and decides to leave. Elena abandons the party as well to find Allen. The other friends decide to leave a drugged Stu blindfolded playing marco polo alone, since he was being annoying by that point. The Greenskeeper takes advantage of this to hide in the pool and drown Stu, killing him.

Chet and Mary Beth leave the party too to have sex at some place near the field. Chet decides to take a piss but is grabbed by the Greenskeeper and placed on a golf washer. He is then supposedly killed by having his testicles torn apart by the handle of the machine. Mary Beth is later surprised by the killer and runs away, starting a chase. The Greenskeeper pursues her with ease using a golf car, and then throws a pair of garden shears to her back, making her trip. Beth plays dead with the hopes that the killer would leave, but she is then ran over with the golf car. He later uses this same shears to find and kill Otis, who was watching a movie in his workplace that night. Champ and Mary Jane are the last ones to fall into the hands of the Greenskeeper. As they were having sex in the green, he uses this opportunity to brutally impale them both with a hole cutter, instantly killing them.

Elena finds Stu's bloodied corpse staged in the lifesaver's chair, and is taken hostage by the Greenskeeper. She finds herself trapped in a weird cabin filled with several photos of Allen. Elena is then surprised and attacked by the killer. She tries to keep him back with a wooden door and calls several people to come to rescue her, but Allen was the only one to respond. The killer supposedly leaves and Elena tries to escape, but later finds herself trapped within the hands of another Greenskeeper that appears from behind. She manages to escape by biting his hand and runs away, finding the bodies of Allen's friends gathered in several places of the green. The first Greenskeeper enters the scene again and starts pursuing her with no success. Elena enters to the tool warehouse with the hopes of getting Otis' help, but finds him with garden shears impaled in his hips. She is then found by the Greenskeeper and struggles with him. But just before he could harm her, Allen saves the day and starts beating the killer with a baseball bat. The mysterious murderer starts calling Allen by his name and unmasks himself, revealing a charred, deformed face. But before he could say something he is shot by John, who was mysteriously there the whole time.

#### Confession and death

Elena notices the bitemarks in John's hand, and remembers when he struggled with the killer a few moments ago. John doesn't hesitate any second and turns himself on both Allen and Elena almost instantly, pointing his gun at them. He then explains the whole story to them: His brother George was the true co-owner of the club, being inherited to him by marriage. John was jealous of him and prepared a trap to get him killed, tricking one of the lawnmower which was ready to explode. Surprisingly, George survived, but instead of claiming anything he decided to hide himself in a shack near the club. John takes this opportunity to marry the mourning Mrs. Anderson and transform in the president of the place.

But the inheritance of the place was supposed to be passed to Allen in his twenty-fifth birthday. He would not allow that his sweet club would be passed to a loser like Allen, so he orchestrated everything to him get killed, and divert attention from the police. He also reveals that the Greenskeeper who has been pursuing Elena was in fact, his brother George, Allen's father, and that he was only trying to warn them about his intentions. John then threatens to kill them both, but are then saved by George, who stabs his brother in the foot with a rake. They start to struggle and John loses his gun. He tries to plead mercy to his brother, lying to him on how Mrs. Anderson made him to do it. John takes the opportunity to stab his brother with a sprinkler hose and then attempt to finally kill Allen with a shovel. Unknowingly to him, Otis survived his previous attack and then prepares the lawnmower that he had been trying to fix for the whole film. The blade is then launched to John's neck, decapitating him and ending with his plans for good. A dying George finally has the chance to see his son again, and passes away on his hands.

## Personality

John is an utterly greedy, heartless egomaniac who thinks is above of everyone. He tries to fake it with an affably demeanor, but gets to be easily noticeable to anybody who is smart enough to understand his true behavior. He only cares about himself and his own means, and is capable of doing horrible things to get what he wants. Murder seems to no be a deadline for him, as he had absolutely no problems in committing nor he regretted doing it. In fact, his utterly sadism at the moment of confessing and the gruesome nature of his murders proves that John is a step away of being just an awful person, but a homicidal maniac waiting for release.

## Victims

List of known victims of The Greenskeeper. This list only applies for the on-screen deaths or victims whose body was discovered on-screen. It has to be noted that Old Man Rivers death might or not might have happened since it was shown in Chas' story.

1. Old Man Rivers: Decapitated with garden shears.
2. Chip: Bludgeoned to death with golf club.
3. Chas: Nailed in the forehead by rigged tennis machine.
4. Tina: Impaled in the wall through the neck with towel hook.
5. Stu: Drowned and neck slit up with a whistle.
6. Chet: Killed with golf ball washer (possibly castrated)
7. Mary Beth: Garden shears throwed to her back. Runned over by golf car.
8. Champ: Impaled with hole cutter along with Jane.
9. Mary Jane: Impaled with hole cutter along with Champ.
10. Mary Katherine: Killed offscreen. Nailed in the face with golf tees. Body hung in a tree.
11. George Anderson: Stabbed in the chest with sprinkler hose.

### Attempted

* George Anderson (first time): Burned in explosion with sabotaged lawnmower.
* Otis: Stabbed in the back with garden shears.