(FILM REEL CLICKS)
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
Kind friend,
beware as you pass by.
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now,
so you must be.
Prepare yourself to follow me.
(SCREAMS)
Let the devil take his own.
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
(EXECUTIONER GRUNTS) (BLOOD GURGLES)
(BODY THUMPS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(PRIEST BREATHES HEAVILY)
(LOONS CALL)
(SOMBER PIANO MUSIC)
(BIRD CHIRPS)
(SCREEN DOOR CREAKS)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(DOOR KNOCKS)
(MAN SIGHS)
(DOOR KNOCKS)
MAN: Yeah?
Hold on.
Gunderson said you were gonna be here.
Wanted me to check on you,
see if you got everything working okay.
Yeah, I think I got it.
Oh, I'm Emery, by the way.
I live just right over there, right across the field.
Saw you drive by last night.
Louis.
Well, nice meeting you, Louis.
(CHUCKLES)
Hey, you picked a pretty isolated area
to come for a vacation, that's for sure.
I'm not really here on vacation.
Oh?
What you doing here?
I needed some place to escape from the city,
some place quiet.
Figured I do a little fishing.
Ah, well, you couldn't have picked
a better spot. (CHUCKLES)
There's not much to do around here,
but if you're into fishing,
oh boy, we got a couple o' nice lakes.
Round Lake is just up the road a bit.
Indian Lake is right back over there.
It's a little shallow.
I prefer Round Lake myself.
Bigger walleye.
Thanks for letting me know.
Yeah.
Well, it's good to see someone staying here.
House is usually empty, you know, come fall.
Gundersons, they like to head down south early
to beat the winter.
(CHUCKLES)
It's a nice place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, you might see some local teenagers
driving around the property, drinking.
Don't mind 'em.
Just give 'em a shout and they'll go away.
They're used to nobody being here.
Well, thanks.
Yeah.
Well, if you need anything,
any help or anything, remember,
I'm just right over there across the field.
So enjoy yourself.
Have a good one.
(WIND BLOWS)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(MYSTICAL MUSIC)
LOUIS: "Kind friend, beware as you pass by."
"As you are now, so once was I."
(EERIE MUSIC)
(LOONS CALL)
BARTENDER: Haven't seen you around here before.
Yeah, I just got in last night.
Oh, where you from?
I live in the cities.
The cities?
What you do up there?
I write sports for the Tribune.
MAN: Well.
So what brought you down here?
Just needed to get away from the cities for a little bit.
My friend's cousins with the Gundersons,
so staying out there.
Gundersons, they're nice folks over there.
Hey, did you do any fishin'?
It's been a real good year for walleye.
Hell, I got a good one yesterday.
Did you really?
Had a real good sucker last night.
I'll bet you did.
Where'd you get 'em at?
Just off of the point.
Oh okay, yeah sure,
I was out there couple weeks ago.
I went out to Loon Lake today.
Catch anything?
Actually didn't do any fishing.
Just wandered around a little bit.
Found an old cemetery out there.
Oh, the old Loon Lake cemetery.
Haven't been out there in a long time.
I was out there one time this summer.
You were, what were you doing out there?
Not much.
(MEN LAUGH)
"Not much."
I'm sure.
Yep.
Yeah, nobody goes out there much anymore, 'cept Jeb.
Yeah, just Jeb.
Yeah, he goes out there
and he keeps the headstones nice and clean,
and you know, he'll pick weeds around the grave sites
and keeps the town kids away.
Used to be a church too,
but that burned down a long time ago, you know.
It did?
I didn't know there was a church there.
Yeah, I saw a couple headstones out there.
Like some of 'em died pretty young.
You must not know the story, then.
No, what story?
Oh, yeah?
Supposed to be a witch buried out there.
BARTENDER: Mmhmm.
Really?
Yeah.
They say they beheaded her way back when.
Took three chops before her head came off.
They buried her out there, along with the ax they used.
Isn't that something?
What was her name again?
- Maggie? - Mill?
Milly?
Her name was Mary Jane.
- Oh, yeah. - May Jane.
That was it.
- Mary Jane. - Mary Jane.
Mary Jane Terlinden.
Story goes that she was a witch,
and she put a curse on our town
so the crops wouldn't grow.
They say she stole a baby, too.
Killed it in some kinda ritual.
BARTENDER: Oh, poor baby.
Nobody knows for sure, though.
BARTENDER: Yeah, people say a lotta things.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, they say if you walk over her grave three times,
she comes for you in the middle of the night
and you die an accidental death.
Yeah, there he died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
I always heard his car was faulty, though.
Eh, could be.
There's another guy, they say he drowned,
but he was a real good swimmer.
So just buncha hearsay.
Yeah.
Just a good ghost story we use to scare the kids with.
Stupid kids (CHUCKLES).
I hope you weren't too careless
when you were out there.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's hope not.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
You going across to get something to eat?
Yeah.
Well, I'll come with you.
I haven't eaten, and I could use the company.
Sure.
EMERY: Evening boys.
- Emery. - Hey Emery.
Gracie (CHUCKLES).
Hey.
Oh.
- Hey. - Louis.
Hey, did you fine Round Lake all right?
Well, he found Loon Lake.
Yeah, yeah.
Ended up getting lost.
Really?
Well, I hope it was nice.
It was.
BARTENDER: He went to the cemetery.
Well, good night Emery.
Good night, Gordie.
See you tomorrow, bud.
Goodnight, Gracie.
GORDIE: Nice meetin' ya, young fella.
(GRACIE SIGHS)
LOUIS: Over here?
GRACIE: Mmhmm.
LOUIS: What was your name again?
So um, you just work down the street?
No, that's just my part-time thing.
I'm actually a nurse at the hospital in Okaboji.
Oka, Oka-what?
(GRACIE LAUGHS)
Okaboji.
It's 20 minutes away, across the border, in Iowa.
Iowa, huh?
You're married.
Yeah.
I am.
I mean, I was.
Oh, are you divorced?
She died.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Here's your supper.
Thank you.
Thanks.
I almost got married once,
but then I caught him with another girl,
so there went that.
(EXHALES)
Yeah.
Well, here's to the ones we love.
There's a smile (CHUCKLES).
Welcome to Round Lake.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
Hey, you want me to give you a ride?
Oh, oh, wait.
GRACIE: Whoa.
Oh, but I'm good.
(LAUGHS) You sure about that?
Why don't I give you a ride?
My sister lives close.
She can come get me.
Yeah, maybe that's a good idea.
Where are all the people at?
This is Round Lake.
(LAUGHS)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
I hope they didn't spook you too much,
talking about our local witch.
No.
I don't really believe in ghosts and witches.
I really don't believe in anything.
I don't really believe any of it either,
but I still don't go walking around Loon Lake alone.
Yeah?
What's the truth, then?
I don't know for certain,
but I do know a girl named Mary Jane died a long time ago.
They said she was a witch,
and they buried her out by the lake.
You know, it was Emery's great grandfather
who had her executed.
Really?
My neighbor, Emery?
Mmhmm.
He doesn't like to talk about it,
but his great grandfather was the town pastor.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, there's one story that says
Mary Jane came back from the dead.
Oh, yeah?
The story goes, Pastor Janson was out there
giving her last rites.
Father,
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Son,
Holy Ghost.
Mary Jane,
may your sins be forgiven,
and may your soul rest in peace.
(THUNDER RUMBLES) (EERIE VIOLIN MUSIC)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(EERIE VOCAL MUSIC)
(CHURCH BELL RINGS)
Give me strength.
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(DOORS CREAK)
(CRICKETS CHIRP FAINTLY)
(DOORS GROAN)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
Unclean spirit, I cast you out.
This is the Lord's house.
This is no one's house.
With three chops, you killed me.
With three strides across my resting bones, you woke me.
And I will come for thee, in three days time.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) (THUNDER BANGS)
(EXPLOSION BOOMS)
(FLAMES CRACKLE)
(THUNDER BANGS)
(PASTOR JANSON SCREAMS)
The church burned down to the ground,
but what was crazy was Pastor Jensen survived the fire.
He was severely burned,
and he just screamed in agony for three days
before he finally passed.
And after that, everyone avoided the cemetery.
(LOUIS EXHALES)
I think you country folk
need to get out a little bit more.
(GRACIE EXHALES)
Yeah, quiet, lonely places.
They make your imagination run wild.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(GRACIE SIGHS)
There's no reception out here.
Yeah, it's bad.
Come on in, you can use the house phone.
Thank you.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(GRASS RUSTLES)
You okay?
LOUIS: Yeah.
(SIGHS)
Man.
Phone's right over there.
GRACIE: Okay, thanks.
(LOUIS SIGHS)
Hey, were you asleep?
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Can you come pick me up?
I'm at the Gunderson's farm.
Left my car in town.
What?
No, everything's fine.
(LAUGHS) I'll tell you about it when you get here.
Okay, see you soon, bye. (EERIE MUSIC)
(SIGHS) My sister'll be here soon.
LOUIS: Uh-huh.
She doesn't live far from here, so.
Okay.
(SIGHS)
I hate this.
My day.
(CHUCKLES)
You know, I've always thought about moving
out to the twin cities.
Just get out of this small town and go somewhere
where nobody knows your name,
your business. (OMINOUS MUSIC)
The last time I was out there, actually,
we went to a Twins game at the new stadium.
(LOUIS BREATHES DEEPLY)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
Hey.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry, my sister's here.
You fell asleep.
I didn't wanna wake you,
'cause you looked so peaceful.
It's a pleasure to meet you, Gracie.
Thanks for driving me home.
Yeah, you know, it's a small town.
It's what we do around here,
help each other out.
Um, here's my number if you need anything.
Thanks again.
Seeya 'round.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
WOMAN: Kind friend, beware as you pass by.
As you are now,
so once was I. (CHURCH BELL RINGS)
I finished for the day, pastor.
Your efforts are most appreciated by the congregation.
Thank you.
Why do you not attend services?
You've been a member of our little community
almost a year now.
I'm a very spiritual person, pastor,
but my church is in nature,
though I am very happy to serve the community here.
(TRANQUIL MUSIC)
You are such a beautiful young woman.
I've found my gaze drifting to you
for some time now.
How has the Lord not blessed you with a husband?
If I was your husband.
What are you doing?
What about your wife?
My wife?
Oh, my wife will not find out about this, Mary Jane.
No.
I will scream.
Mary Jane.
I thought you were a man of God.
(FLAMES CRACKLE) (MYSTICAL MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(FIRE ROARS)
Spirit of the wind, bring forth a storm to feed the earth.
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MARY JANE WHIMPERS)
(MARY JANE SCREAMS)
MAN: We've been at this for nearly three days now.
She hasn't confessed.
Perhaps she's innocent.
You saw her hidden in the woods,
practicing her evil ways.
The girl is a witch.
She has made a pact with Satan, I know it.
It is she who has cursed our land and crops.
The girl has repeated her innocence, and I believe her.
She's bewitched you, Larson.
Get out.
I am not a witch.
I am only a child of nature.
I have committed no crimes, please.
Please cut me down, please.
She attempts to blind us from the truth.
Find the devil's mark.
He's hidden it well in her flesh.
I have no mark of Satan upon me,
but I will remember your devil's hand, Pastor Janson.
Find it.
(MARY JANE SCREAMS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(BED CREAKS)
(PERSON SIGHS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(WALL BANGS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
Hey. (BOYS CHATTER DISTANTLY)
I saw you out there.
You're not scaring me, you little shits.
Come on out.
You think you're tough?
Huh?
Hiding in the corn?
You're not.
I'm comin' in.
Where you at, huh?
I know you're out here somewhere.
You little punks.
(MOSQUITO BUZZES)
(EERIE MUSIC)
Why don't you come on out?
You think you're messing with me?
Huh?
Well, you're not.
You want some?
Huh?
Well I got Tito and Pepe sitting here waiting for ya.
(BOYS LAUGH DISTANTLY)
So why don't you come on out?
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
That's what I thought.
You know where I'll be.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(OWL HOOTS)
(WIND BUFFETS)
(INTENSE MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
You sure you didn't hear or see anybody
come into my place last night?
Nope.
I didn't see anything.
It was real quiet last night.
Was up late, too.
You sure?
Yeah, why?
There was a dead loon nailed to the tree
out in front of my house.
Oh, dammit.
Jesus.
Who would do a thing like that?
You can't kill loons,
they're the state bird, for crying out loud.
I have no clue who did it.
You wanna go see?
EMERY: No.
It's there.
Well, I believe you.
Kids are gettin' worse these days.
You know I just came here for a little peace and quiet?
Get left alone.
Now I have to deal with all this shit.
Nobody comes here for peace and quiet.
In fact, nobody comes here at all.
I've seen that look.
You have in your eyes before.
It's never a good thing.
Son, what's bugging you? (SOMBER MUSIC)
I lost my wife in a car accident about three months back.
I'm sorry.
I know it's not the same thing,
but my wife passed 'bout five years back.
Married almost 60 years.
I'm not gonna lie to you and say it gets any better.
My faith gets me through it,
knowing I'll see here again one day.
We were gonna be parents.
When my wife died, my faith died with her.
I just can't stop thinking about that.
What if this is it?
What if there's nothing left after?
That's a sad way to look at life, son.
We have to believe that there's more to life
than what we can see.
Right now, I just can't.
My heart breaks for you.
Should your mind drift back to painful memories,
then you need to talk some more.
You know where I am.
Thank you.
(TRANQUIL MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
Hey,
hey what are you doing in here?
Hey.
Get out of here.
(CORN STALKS RUSTLE)
(BABY CRIES)
(WOMAN SINGS SOFTLY)
(EERIE MUSIC)
Ashley.
(EERIE VIOLIN MUSIC)
Ashley.
(INTENSELY OMINOUS MUSIC)
(LIGHTNING CRASHES) (THUNDER RUMBLES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(RAIN PATTERS)
(MUD SQUELCHES)
(WATER PATTERS)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(THUNDER CRASHES LOUDLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Shit.
(EERIE MUSIC)
(SIGHS) Dammit.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(STAIRS CREAK)
(SWITCHES CLICK)
(LIGHTS WHIR)
(FOOTSTEPS THUD)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(WOOD CREAKS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(WOOD CREAKS)
(RAIN PATTERS)
(WOOD CREAKS)
(LOUIS YELLS)
(THUNDER CRASHES)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(DOOR KNOCKS)
Louis.
What are you doing here?
Well, I thought you hadn't eaten,
so I just brought some food.
Can I come in?
It's raining.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Let me put some clothes on.
Hey, it's your place.
Do what feels good.
Are you sure you didn't see anybody
run out of the house when you pulled up?
No.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
Are you sure?
Not a woman?
Anybody?
No, I just saw the lights come on,
so I knew you were here.
I Heard somebody walking around up here.
Look at you, scared of a little wind
blowing through an old house.
You remind me of my nephew.
You heard me at the bar the other night.
I was out at that cemetery.
I think I might have crossed that witch's grave.
(SCOFFS) Mary Jane's grave?
That's just a story.
Do you know how many times when we were kids
we would jump across that grave?
There's no witch.
She was just some poor girl.
(SCREAMS)
(LAUGHS)
Who needs a witch to scare me when I have you, huh?
Chicken shit city boy.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
So, why didn't you just go stay with family
instead of coming out here all alone?
I never knew 'em.
I was in and out of foster homes my whole life.
I met Ashley in college.
She saved me.
She became my family.
One year, for Christmas,
we decided to go to the Black Hills.
This huge blizzard came through.
We got snowed in for four days.
Nobody could get to us.
We couldn't get out.
But that didn't matter.
I'd give anything to have those four days back.
How did she die, if you don't mind my asking?
Car accident.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
She was on her way home from a church meeting.
I was still at work when it happened.
I lost everything I had and loved, in seconds.
I don't know why.
If that's the way God is, cruel and malignant,
I choose not to put my faith in him any longer.
Do you believe in the devil?
I guess,
if I believe in God,
I'd have to say yeah, the devil would exist.
Earlier, you said you thought a ghost was disturbing you,
and if you believe ghosts are real
and that you disturbed one down by the cemetery,
then you'd have to believe
that other forces, like God and the devil,
must exist too.
What are you getting at?
If you believe in nothing,
then you don't have anything to be frightened of at all.
(SIGHS)
I don't hear thunder.
The storm must be passing.
Thanks for staying here with me.
As much as I want to be alone,
I don't think I could tonight.
It's okay.
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
(WINGS FLAP)
(LOON CALLS)
Owen,
I have always respected you as a pillar of the community
and a man of God,
but now when I hear you speak the words of the Lord,
your faith isn't there.
Pay me no heed, Lena.
No, we cannot ignore this.
Something's infected you.
We all feel it.
It's as though something dark
has slithered into our lives
and coiled itself around you.
You are no longer the man that I married.
You were always so compassionate,
so forgiving, always looking at the best in people,
and now there's something in you that frightens me.
Do you know what our son told me that night?
"There is no God. (SOMBER MUSIC)"
"There is no God."
And then he took his life.
Why have you never told me that before?
Because I never believed,
yet still, after almost a year,
our youngest son's final words haunt me.
What if he spoke the truth?
Don't.
Don't say such things.
How can you say such things?
You're a servant of God.
Don't turn your back on him after all these years.
What God sends madness into my child
and then burns his soul to everlasting flame?
Samuel is our child.
How dare you be so selfish
as to think his death only affected you.
It's God's will.
He's testing us.
Don't abandon him.
You believe this is a test?
I must believe it,
and you, you of all men must be believe it too.
No.
I cannot, any longer.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Then there's no hope for you.
You have forsaken your people.
This darkness that's descended on us,
it's all due to you.
Do not put that upon me.
I didn't.
You brought it on yourself when you gave up your faith.
(CRICKETS CHIRP) (SOMBER MUSIC)
(WOMAN CHANTS FAINTLY)
Bless us with rain.
Hear me now,
as I summon thee.
Bring us a storm,
to thrive once more.
(FIRE ROARS) What are you doing
in these woods?
God is everywhere in nature.
Can you not feel his presence between us now?
I give an offering.
It's you.
You have brought this plague upon our community.
You are why our crops grow no longer.
The only darkness here
is that which stirs within you.
Look upon yourself, pastor.
The leader of this community,
the shepard to this flock,
forsaken and corrupted.
And you blame me for the crops?
That day,
at the church,
it was you, you tempted me.
It was all your doing.
It was no sin of mine.
I offered no temptation.
It was your own free will which desired me,
and which still desires me now.
The blood of this dead loon,
purified in the flames, shall revitalize the soil,
and our crops shall grow once more.
(INTENSIFYING DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(FLESH SQUELCHES)
(FLAMES CRACKLE)
(GASPS)
Oh my God.
What have we done?
We have given an offering.
Soon the rains will come.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
You witch, you've bedeviled me.
'Twas no bedeviling.
You were willing.
Your son, Samuel,
(INTENSIFYING DRAMATIC MUSIC)
was always willing.
(GASPS)
I will destroy you.
Go ahead.
If I am a witch, I will do more harm to you
than anything that you could do to me.
Warn the town about me,
and I will burn your church to the ground.
Torture me, and you will know such pain
as you have never imagined.
Kill me,
and I will rise from the grave
and drag you back to Hell with me.
I rebuke you.
(MARY JANE LAUGHS)
God is on my side.
Is he?
I thought you rebuked him.
(MYSTICAL MUSIC)
We are the damned.
Are we not, Louis?
(FIRE CRACKLES)
Gracie?
Gracie.
(DOOR KNOCKS)
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
Ashley.
Can I come in, Louis?
I feel so cold.
(SCREAMS) (FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(GRACIE GASPS)
What the hell is wrong with you?
Gracie.
No, stay away from me.
Just listen.
You're crazy.
Gracie, just let me explain, okay?
Gracie.
Let me explain.
I'm sorry.
(ENGINE REVS)
Gracie.
(SIGHS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(DOOR KNOCKS)
Hey, everything okay?
I just saw Gracie's car tearing out of here
like a bat outta hell.
You okay, son?
Emery, look at this.
Look.
Loon Lake.
Yeah, look, in the trees.
Where?
Right there.
What?
I don't know what you're looking at.
There was someone in the trees.
I don't see anything.
You okay?
What's wrong?
That witch at Loon Lake,
I think she's after me.
I think I walked across her grave.
There's no witch out there.
That's not what I've heard.
They filled your head with nonsense,
at the bar, didn't they?
Yeah, I knew it.
You wanna know the truth?
Please.
It was a drought year.
The crops were dying, animals were diseased.
My great-great-grandfather was a pastor back then,
and he and the rest of the township, I'm sorry to say,
accused some poor, misunderstood girl of witchcraft,
saying she cursed the land.
So they killed her,
buried her out at the lake,
thinkin' it would solve their problems.
But it didn't.
(THUNDER RUMBLES) (SOMBER MUSIC)
(DESK BANGS)
I rid the community of her evil, Lord.
For you.
Now she is dead.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
I cannot believe my son burns in eternity.
I cannot.
Oh, God.
Do you hear me, God?
Are you listening?
If you hear,
God,
then please,
I beg you,
stop your house
from burning to the ground.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(THUNDER CRASHES) (PASTOR JANSON YELLS)
Everybody blamed Mary Jane and her curse
for the church burning down.
They've been spreading ghost stories about them every since.
I wish they would stop.
The whole thing was tragic.
LOUIS: But people have died, Emery.
It's all coincidence, superstition, ignorance.
LOUIS: But...
When I was a kid, someone dared Bill Hopkins
to walk across the witch grave three times, so he did it.
Three days later, he died.
Three days?
Yes, but it wasn't Mary Jane who did it.
That night, he was drunk, as always.
Ran his car into a telephone pole.
There's nothing supernatural about that.
But he still died, Emery.
There's something out there, okay?
I know it.
How can I be seeing all this shit in my head
if it's all just superstitions and stories?
There's no such thing as witches.
You know, what people can't understand,
they fear, call it evil.
Mary Jane was an outsider.
People punished her because she was different.
Fear does crazy things.
Your mind's playing tricks on you.
You're right.
I've been overreacting.
Yeah.
I think I'm gonna go lie down.
Good idea.
Yeah.
(EERIE MUSIC)
(WIND BLOWS)
Can I help you gentlemen?
Yes, you can.
Heard you attacked my sister.
LOUIS: Huh?
That shit don't go around here.
Shit don't go around here.
Look, all right, that's not what happened.
I don't care what you say happened.
She says you hurt her.
All right, if we could just talk about this for a little...
GRACIE: Stop.
Leave him alone.
Gracie, shut up and get back in the truck.
- This is between me and him. - I said he didn't mean it.
We're gonna show this city boy how we work around here.
Come here, guy.
(CORN STALKS RUSTLE)
(WINGS FLAP)
(LOON CALLS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(STONE SCRAPES)
Why are you doing this to me?
If only they had left me alone.
If only you hadn't woken me.
But I didn't do anything.
I don't deserve this.
I didn't deserve it either.
Why are you showing me these visions?
So that you will understand.
I don't care what happened to you.
I just want this to end.
It shall all be over soon.
(ANIMALS CALL DISTANTLY)
I feel the strength returning to me already.
I can make your pain all go away.
And now,
it is sealed.
Kind friend, beware as you pass by.
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you must be.
Prepare yourself to follow me.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
Oh my God.
Ashley.
Louis.
I'm so sorry.
I should have been there with you.
You can't blame yourself.
I have you now.
I'm gonna keep you safe.
You can't.
But I can save you.
(EERIE VIOLIN MUSIC)
"Kind friend, take heed,
"as on this path, you must proceed."
"If this grave has thrice been tread,"
"call her forth from the undead."
"Take up an ax, which failed at first,"
"and with one swing, remove the curse."
WOMAN: Believe, Louis.
(LOUIS GASPS)
(LOUIS COUGHS)
(LOUIS GRUNTS)
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(LOUIS GRUNTS)
Mary Jane, come for me.
I'm ready for you.
I'm right here.
(SHED BANGS) (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(LOUIS BREATHES HEAVILY)
(DOOR BANGS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
Mary Jane.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
I love you, Ashley.
I miss you so much.
If this is real,
this is really happening to me,
help me, Ash.
How am I gonna do this?
(SOMBER PIANO MUSIC)
(INVIGORATING MUSIC)
Okay.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(GLASS PANE KNOCKS)
Hey.
You okay?
You were right.
It's just a story.
I overreacted.
I guess this quiet solitude doesn't agree with me.
I'm gonna head back to Minneapolis.
I'm sorry to see you go.
You're a good man.
Take care of yourself, okay?
I will.
Thanks again, Emery.
EMERY: So long.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(TIRES SCRAPE) (CAR BANGS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(YELLS)
(EERIE MUSIC)
(FRIGHTENING MUSIC)
(WINGS FLAP)
(LOUIS GRUNTS)
(MARY JANE GROWLS)
WOMAN: Louis.
(MARY JANE GROWLS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
LOUIS: Emery.
What's wrong?
You were wrong.
It's not just a story, it's true.
Here's the proof.
It's Mary Jane's necklace.
No, no, that's not real.
Bullshit, Emery.
Bullshit.
I'm outta here.
Louis.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(TIRES SCREECH) (CAR BANGS)
(TRANQUIL MUSIC)
Oh my gosh.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(WAVES LAP)
Never believed all the stories, you know.
He was a good man.
(LOONS CALL)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
(OWL HOOTS)