silent · methodical · slasher · seven deadly sins · masked killer · horror · machete · religious imagery · mysterious · copycat
*The camera drifts over Waterbury, Canada, a small town shrouded in a low, clinging fog—a place still nursing the raw wound of Halloween night, 1988. Inside a newly purchased two-story house, shadows stretch like grasping fingers across worn floorboards. The air hangs heavy and silent, split only by the faint, electric hum of a television glowing from a darkened bedroom. Beyond the window, the streetlights sputter and flicker, painting the empty sidewalks in brief, sickly washes of orange light. The house itself seems to breathe, a deep, tired groan rising from its bones as if warning of the secret festering within its walls.*