What do you want ?
I'm here about the room.
No pets, no parties, no loud music.
This is a quiet building.
I'm a grad student at the university
doing my thesis.
I just need a quiet place to study.
Student ?
And I'm gonna need the extra month's rent in advance.
I can't afford another month's rent, you know?
Come on, man, I really need this apartment.
Well, I don't like renting to students.
Young people...
They have no respect!
This one's on welfare already.
And she owes me two months rent.
Eh, you know anybody who need a place?
No.
Ahh...
This is the room.
There's 100 dollar security deposit for damage to the furnishings.
And it's not refundable.
You ain't gonna find any cheaper than this.
Yeah, I know.
I'll take it.
Fuck!
God damn it!
Get away from me!
You alright?
You need help?
Hel... hello?
It won't stop!
It wouldn't go away!
It won't leave us alone!
It's okay, it's okay. It's gone now. It's okay.
Do not let it come back, please. Just help me!
All right, I'll help you. It's okay.
- I'll be right back. - Where are you going?
Mr Dombrowski ?
What do you want?
The woman upstairs was attacked by a large rat.
Is that what all that screaming was about?
I thought somebody was dying!
You tell her that she better keep it down.
And that... that kid of hers too!
Woh! It almost bit the baby!
You gotta get the exterminators in here!
Oh right!
So she can claim another kitty ate rat poison
and then try to sue me!
This house is infested with rats. I can hear them in the walls.
Hey! You put them up to this, Masurewicz, huh?
Is this more of your nonsense?
Look! I saw it attack her and the baby?
Come on, man!
Can you do something about the rats?
This house is over 300 years old.
Of course it has rats!
Every building in this God forsaken neighborhood has rats!
Here, you fixed it!
Mr.!
You saw a rat ?
Yeah.
A big one?
Yeah.
With a face...
A human face?
I don't know what you mean.
- That should do it. - Are you sure?
Yeah, it won't get back in that way.
Well, maybe somewhere else!
I don't see any other place it could fit through.
Ohhh... well thank you.
Well, you're safe now.
You are a hero!
I'm Walter Gilman. I just moved in next door.
Oh! Frankie... Frances... Elwood.
And this is Danny!
Hey!
How are you, fella?
Ah, he likes you.
Can I make you some tea?
Ohh... no, no, it's okay.
I gotta get back to study... so.
Oh. Oh, you are a student!
Yeah, grad student at the U.
One day this guy is gonna get a college degree.
- Okay. - Okay.
So...
- Thanks again. - Yeah.
Bye.
Walter!
She's coming!
She's coming for you!
Ahhh!
Who is it ?
It's me... Frankie.
Hey!
Are you... okay?
Yeah! Yeah. I'm fine, I'm fine.
Well, I... thought, I heard...
It sounded like somebody screamed.
Just nothing, a nightmare...
I hope I didn't wake the baby...
No, he slept through a rock concert once.
Are you sure that you're okay?
Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Really, yeah.
No problem.
Okay.
How about that cup of tea?
So, what are you studying?
Working on something called Street theory.
It is totally ***.
One of its proposition is that the universe,
everything we know that exist,
exists on one plane.
We called them "membrane".
And, we notice, by the calculations,
there are a number of other membranes,
of the universe, somewhere there is as many as 11 dimensions.
But my work shows, I think, so far anyway,
that at certain angles,
two membranes can intersect, you know.
And if you know where they cross, and how to recognize those angles,
you can go from one universe...
- ... to the other. - Huh.
So... you packing?
I'm a little behind on the rent, so...
Dombrowski is evicting us.
We're leaving in the morning.
Where you gonna go?
There are um... places.
I need to get a job soon, and we'll find a better home than this.
How much do you owe him?
No, I'm not taking your money!
I can lend you the money. It's not a big deal.
I don't even know you!
Look... here, 50 dollars.
I bet you, he'll let you stay another week for that.
You are student, I think can't afford that!
Why would you be living in this rat hole?
I create papers for this professor and he pays me.
Look, it's just for a week.
Till you get that job.
So, Danny doesn't have to go to one of those places.
With this and what I've got, he might let us stay.
But I am paying you back
by next week.
Okay.
Would you like another cup?
Ah, no... no, it's okay.
I got to... finish those papers,
and I got to study, and...
Yeah, I better go.
Well, good night, then... and thank you.
Yeah. Good night.
Oh, God!
Excuse me!
Sir!
Excuse me!
You saw it.
The rat... with a face.
- That was a dream. - No dream.
You... you put the idea in my mind.
I went to sleep and I dreamt about it.
It is her familiar.
She is hunting you.
Who? Who are you talking about?
The witch! Did you see her in your dream?
Forget it... I just need some quiet in this house, so I can study.
Can you, please, pray a little more quietly?
She is coming for you.
Yeah... Well, I don't believe in much of this, okay?
You will.
Please.
No, I gotta go study.
I have seen her. The demon bitch!
Many times.
What? What are you trying to say to me? Huh?
No.
I come to this house, like you.
A young man. Poor man.
It's cheap. It's quiet.
But this house... is evil!
I lived where you live.
Then, I have dreams...
Like you!
Then...
Then you... you saw the witch?
Her eyes... I still see her eyes!
She made me do... terrible things!
Then why are you staying in this house?
I worked, I prayed to stop her!
Here...
Take this.
Well man, man. Look, no thanks.
It was just a dream.
No dream!
Walter? Hey!
Can you do me a favor?
- Please? Please - Sure, what?
I just got a call about a job interview.
Can you just watch Danny for me?
For maybe an hour or two?
Ahhh... Okay.
- But I... never babysat before. - No, no, you'll be great! He loves you.
Look who it is, Danny?
Hey, so what happens if he has to be...
No, no. I just changed him and I fed him
and he should be fine. He's a good boy.
Okay.
I promise you, I won't be too long.
I just... I really need this job.
And then I'll be able to pay you back too.
Oh! Don't worry about that. I'll be glad to watch him.
Thank you, so much.
Bye baby.
- Wish me luck! - Yeah, good luck.
Hey, you boys have a good time.
So, I'll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell your mom.
I think she likes me.
I think I like her.
It's okay, it's okay fella.
It's okay. I'll take care of you.
Frances?
Oh God, oh God, oh God.
Danny!
Walter?
Danny!
It's okay, baby. Hey honey, it's mama!
You're alright.
What happened?
I don't know. I just... I fell asleep for a second.
Where?
Why did you leave him?
I didn't! I mean, I nodded out right there.
Right there...
Are you on drugs?
I need borrow some flour.
Flour? Why?
The only explanation for that is...
...I must have been sleepwalking.
Sleepwalking?
Look... I've been having weird dreams.
I mean, like really, really intense dreams.
And I think maybe I'm starting to walk in my sleep.
Oh, look! I... I don't know what happened?
But I promise you, I would never leave Danny alone.
Okay? I would never leave Danny alone.
Please, believe me!
What do you need flour for?
There... Now if I get out of bed, even if I am not conscious of it,
I'll leave a trail.
Maybe you should... see a doctor.
I mean to help you... with these dreams.
You mean a psychiatrist?
We all need help sometimes, right?
Yeah, well, in the morning, I'll know for sure.
So, will you...
Well, I'll see you in the morning then.
Good night.
Just a dream, it's just a dream.
Sign!
Oh my God!
What are you doing here?
This is a restricted area.
The rare book room is always locked.
How did you get in?
I don't know.
How did you get this book?
No one has permission to see the Necronomicon.
No one!
- Who let you in? - Please, I...
Security?
Wait a second...
Help! Security!
Walter! What's wrong?
Get Danny and leave now!
- What? Why? - Cause he's in danger.
From who? What kind of danger?
The dreams... They're real!
The witch and the rat... you've seen the rat!
Oh Walter, you're scaring me!
They want Danny, for some ritual.
Some sick ceremony, they need child to sacrifice.
Listen to me! You have to stop this now!
You have to see a doctor, and get medication.
- You're not thinking straight. - No, no, no! It's real, it's in the book!
In the library. The walls of my room, that's where the membranes meet.
That's how they get in there, hiding in another universe!
Get help, Walter.
Hey! Walter!
Look, you believe!
You believe it's true!
Now he needs help, he needs protection.
You need to take him away from here, away from me!
Listen, I have nowhere else to go. I can't afford any place else.
Just... get a hold of yourself.
They want me to do it! To take him!
They need me, I do not know why... Look!
Oh God! What did you do to yourself?
Listen to me, if I go to sleep again, I don't know if I can protect him!
I don't know if I can control myself!
They want me to kill your son!
That's enough! Get away from him!
Get out of here now or I'm calling the police.
- Listen to me... - No, go, now!
- Wait a minute! - Walter, no!
Hello!
It's old Joe. I bring coffee from my country.
It's very strong!
Thanks.
You're having the dreams?
They are not dreams.
They are real.
She has come. Your soul is in peril.
Look, I think I figured it out.
How she does it...
The witches are astrologers...
They knew science...
She must have discovered the intersection.
She goes back and forth between dimensions.
If I can find the secret to the intersection of the planes,
I can trap her, and that thing in the other universe.
I can stop her!
You cannot stop her!
She has marked you?
She has made you her man!
I have to stop her.
If she comes back again, I can't fight her!
You must run. Run away! Now!
No, if I run, she'll take Danny.
She can take him, yes.
But she needs a human soul,
a man to make the sacrifice, to complete the ritual.
The Devil, he does not thirst for blood, he thirsts for souls.
Well then, I have to stop her now!
I tried to stop her.
I prayed and I prayed?
I should have run, run away!
And then, I... I wouldn't... her...
You killed the child, didn't you?
Children!... I killed children!
She made me...
Look!
Why didn't you turn yourself in? Why didn't you tell someone?
I did... They wouldn't believe me.
Here...
God have mercy on your soul...
Hey!
What the hell do you think you're doing here?
Don't make me. I... I'll call the cops. Don't make me!
Walter!
She's coming for you...
She's coming... She's coming for you...
Oh Danny!
Kill him!
Kill... kill him..
kill... kill, kill!
You're okay.
No!
Walter, Walter!
- Danny! - Walter!
Danny!
Help! Help me!
Help me! Open the door!
Walter! Walter!
Go, go!
Gilman, Gilman!
Damn you... You're in trouble now!
Danny, Danny!
Be careful!
Danny?
Why?
Why did you kill Danny?
She'd wait until I was asleep,
and then she come.
She found the intersection.
The intersection?
Yes... of universes.
That's how she get in my room, and then disappear.
Now this woman... would just disappear.
Yes!
That's what happens when you travel through space and time.
And this is why you killed the baby?
The evil witch cast the spell and made you...
No, no, I already told you!
- I did not kill Danny! - Yes, you told us.
The rat did it.
The rat with the human face.
Now, Walter listen to me.
You threatened the child's mother.
You were caught with the body.
You were covered with the child's blood.
You've got to face what you did!
I tried.. I tried.. I tried to save him...
I killed the witch, she's still there. Her body must be...
I'm telling you the truth?
Why don't you listen to me?
That's classic paranoid schizophrenia.
Brought on by the stress of graduate school, I imagine.
Is he competent to stand trial?
He is intelligent, but he is completely psychotic...
He can't face what he's done.
He probably never will.
Either way, he's going to be locked up for life.
I want to do better than that.
I'm not sure you gonna like this.
What have you got?
We've recovered skeletal remains.
Still impartial, more than 70 bodies.
All of them are children.
Some of them are infants less than a year old.
Jesus. Our Mr Gilman's been a very busy boy.
So, what's the problem?
All the remains we've tested so far,
are at least 30 years old.
The oldest of them over 300 years ago.
What?
And the boy, Danny, has what it appears to be animal bites on the side of his neck.
and DNA... it's...
- Gilman's? - No.
We can't identify it.
And then there's this...
So what are you saying?
Well, none of this makes any sense, unless you believe his story.
What story? Witch and the rat?
Yeah.
None of this exonerates Gilman.
No, but we've got that closest to a defense.
Go ahead... Who is gonna believe him?
Gilman!
Doctor! Doctor!