Eric looks at an open page in the book and notices a picture of a being with burning flesh.ĭavid takes Mia in his Jeep and drives her to a hospital as she's foaming at the mouth. She turns the water up to the point where it becomes scalding hot and her flesh starts burning. He runs back into the cabin and tries to get to Mia, but she's taking a shower. David suspects Mia bludgeoned him to death with a hammer that was lying nearby. David runs into the tool shed and pulls him out of the hole, but he's dead. He calls for Grandpa and finds him in a hole beneath the tool shed. He goes outside and sees blood on the ground. David goes into her room, and she tells him that there is something in the room with them. The group suspects she was trying to harm herself. David and Olivia hear her screaming and find her. The branches and sticks wrap themselves around her arms and legs, and the figure, which is a bloodied and horrifying version of herself, regurgitates a black wormy thing with thorns that makes its way up Mia's leg and goes right inside her. When she comes to, Mia tries to get out, but the figure rises from the swamp, and she runs away, tumbling into a thorn bush. She jumps out the window and steals Eric's car, but as she drives through the woods, she sees the figure again and drives the car into a swamp. She comes into the cabin and starts grabbing her things, saying she can't be there anymore. Outside, Mia starts being sick andd hears a faint voice calling her, and then sees a figure staring at her. He puts a piece of paper over the book and shades over it with a pencil, revealing several words that he begins to read. Eric opens the cover of the book, which is scribbled all over with warnings like "Leave this book alone" and "Do not fucking read this." Naturally, Eric looks through it and finds a page with some words scribbled out and the warning to not speak, write, or hear what is in it. The next day, Mia is wandering outside in the rain. They also find the "evil book" from before, wrapped in wires and plastic. David and Eric go into the cellar and discover the stench is coming from the rotting corpses of animals. Their dog, Grandpa, sniffs around the floor where they find a door leading to a cellar under a rug. Olivia gives her a sedative but Mia continues complaining about a rotten smell that nobody else seems to notice. That evening, Mia starts screaming as she is apparently suffering from withdrawals. Eric tells him that she lasted eight hours before relapsing and overdosing, in which she legally died but was revived. Olivia tells David that this isn't the first time they've tried to get Mia off drugs. Mia, being a recovering drug addict, pulls out a bag of powdered drugs and pours it down the well, vowing to be done with it for good and going cold turkey. It also appears that their mother was emotionally abusive toward Mia.Įveryone gathers around a well. We learn here that Mia fondly remembers her mother, but David doesn't want her to. The group enters the cabin, where Mia complains about a smell. He tells her she looks beautiful, but she thinks he's being a liar. Olivia tells David his sister Mia (Jane Levy) is waiting for him in the back.ĭavid finds Mia, sitting on an old broken down 1973 Olds Delta 88, smoking a cigarette while drawing. We meet David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas), who is a nurse, and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci). Some time later, a car is driving to a quiet part of the woods where a cabin is. The father raises a shotgun, tells her he loves her, and then blasts her head clean off her shoulders. Her eyes turn yellow, and as the father drops the match, she appears demonic and starts thrashing. Before he can strike a match, the young woman tells him she will eat his soul.
The old woman hurries the father to kill his daughter, and so he douses her with gas as she pleads with him. She asks for her mother, and the father tells her that she killed her mother. The young woman's father appears before her. The woman wakes up in a cellar in the presence of a woman who speaks only Welsh, and she's surrounded by what appear to be burn victims. A figure stalks her and eventually jumps her, throwing a bag over her head and having his redneck buddy whack her with the butt of his axe. The film starts with a young woman walking through the woods.