1 00:02:29,340 --> 00:02:32,160 Hello. This is a message for Rob Hanisey. 2 00:02:32,630 --> 00:02:34,919 This is Nancy Bloom at Highberger house. 3 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:36,938 A room has opened up here, and I was curious 4 00:02:36,951 --> 00:02:38,979 if you were still interested in residency. 5 00:02:38,980 --> 00:02:44,640 If so, please give me a call right away at 212-555-3924. 6 00:02:46,190 --> 00:02:49,390 HIGHBERGER HOUSE 7 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,209 - Robert? - Yes. Nancy? 8 00:03:26,210 --> 00:03:28,910 Ms. Bloom. Come in. Come in. 9 00:03:32,210 --> 00:03:33,790 Sorry. 10 00:03:40,020 --> 00:03:42,510 - Come in through the library. - Okay. 11 00:04:00,260 --> 00:04:02,129 I'm really pleased that there was an opening. 12 00:04:02,130 --> 00:04:04,360 What, you're glad that terry died? 13 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:07,609 I'm sorry. I didn't realize. 14 00:04:07,610 --> 00:04:09,460 Suicide. 15 00:04:09,950 --> 00:04:12,263 Thirty-nine reject slips for terry's latest 16 00:04:12,276 --> 00:04:14,600 novel, even the vanity press wouldn't take it. 17 00:04:15,070 --> 00:04:19,210 Between you and me, piece of shit. But, terry's heart was in it. 18 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,130 Your application states that you've never been published. 19 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:28,049 - That's right. - Don't be embarrassed. 20 00:04:28,050 --> 00:04:30,349 That's why you're here in the first place. 21 00:04:30,350 --> 00:04:33,669 Old cap Highberger took the building over in the '30's, 22 00:04:33,670 --> 00:04:36,379 as a place for unpublished writers to work, 23 00:04:36,380 --> 00:04:39,820 to hone their craft, to become published writers, and move on. 24 00:04:40,390 --> 00:04:42,930 He was a frustrated author himself. 25 00:04:43,390 --> 00:04:46,640 Those are his unpublished manuscripts over there. 26 00:04:46,980 --> 00:04:49,220 All 47 of them. 27 00:04:49,810 --> 00:04:52,629 What do you write? Horror stories, that gruesome stuff? 28 00:04:52,630 --> 00:04:56,729 No. No, I just want to write stories that touch people's hearts. 29 00:04:56,730 --> 00:05:00,080 Oh, people's hearts kind of guy. 30 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,969 Yeah, I've had a few of those. 31 00:05:02,970 --> 00:05:05,390 - How many books have you written? - Five. 32 00:05:05,980 --> 00:05:08,529 Well, I'm working on number five now. 33 00:05:08,530 --> 00:05:12,320 You got family? Girlfriends, uh, boyfriends? 34 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:15,290 Are you in love? 35 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,160 The hell with love. I'm gonna live my life for my books. 36 00:05:23,161 --> 00:05:25,580 Well... good for you. 37 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:29,170 Welcome to Highberger house. Sign here. 38 00:05:32,110 --> 00:05:34,849 This opportunity marks a big change in my life. 39 00:05:34,850 --> 00:05:37,619 I'm gonna be published if it's the last thing I do. 40 00:05:37,620 --> 00:05:40,169 Careful. Terry said the same thing. 41 00:05:40,170 --> 00:05:43,849 This place is all about keeping you away from distractions. 42 00:05:43,850 --> 00:05:46,329 Give you a nice, quiet place to work. 43 00:05:46,330 --> 00:05:50,259 Here's your key. Room 217. One flight up. 44 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:54,780 It's not the four seasons, but free room and board as long as you're here. 45 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:57,589 Once you're published you're out of here. You understand? 46 00:05:57,590 --> 00:06:00,399 And then the next unlucky bastard takes your place. 47 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,219 I understand. 48 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:04,099 Really, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the oppor... 49 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,479 just write the god-damn, great American novel, okay? 50 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,030 Deal. 51 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:05,440 Yet ever so humble. 52 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:21,340 Hello. 53 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:37,040 What the fuck! 54 00:09:24,350 --> 00:09:27,399 I had only briefly shaken hands with love... 55 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,960 and then I found that that hand was a claw. 56 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:33,219 I had only briefly shaken hands with love... 57 00:09:33,220 --> 00:09:36,050 and then I found that that hand was a claw. 58 00:09:55,210 --> 00:09:56,820 Who is it? 59 00:10:19,090 --> 00:10:20,800 What the fuck! 60 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:42,480 Hello? 61 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:13,100 Hello. 62 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:20,740 What's wrong? 63 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:29,670 What is it? 64 00:12:29,990 --> 00:12:31,790 Help me. 65 00:12:36,660 --> 00:12:38,520 Please. 66 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,650 Hello! 67 00:12:47,130 --> 00:12:48,900 What's the matter? 68 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,999 I thought I saw... 69 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,760 what? 70 00:13:01,250 --> 00:13:03,159 What did you see? 71 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,260 I'm, uh, I'm not sure. 72 00:13:05,830 --> 00:13:07,919 Who the fuck are you? 73 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,989 This is Rob Hanisey. He's in terry's old room. 74 00:13:11,990 --> 00:13:16,139 Rob, this is Everett Neely and Patricia Dunbar and... 75 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:19,690 so you're just another miserable fuck-up like the rest of us. 76 00:13:20,270 --> 00:13:22,550 - Well, you owe me, Hanisey - For what? 77 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:26,979 I was on the verge of ecstasy before you started banging on the wall, 78 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:32,000 and I dropped my fucking vibrator and now the god-damn thing doesn't work any more. 79 00:13:32,690 --> 00:13:35,389 Jesus, I hate this dump. 80 00:13:35,390 --> 00:13:38,919 And I hate happy little fucking faces like yours. 81 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,879 So give up writing then. Become a nun. 82 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,568 I was a sister of fucking mercy for seven fucking 83 00:13:43,581 --> 00:13:46,279 years, you little cocksucker know-it-all. 84 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,960 So don't you get smart with me. 85 00:13:51,860 --> 00:13:55,690 Well, she does have a command of the language, doesn't she? 86 00:14:02,460 --> 00:14:06,540 Do try to keep it down, Mr. Hanisey. We appreciate the quiet here. 87 00:14:12,110 --> 00:14:13,189 Fuck them. 88 00:14:13,190 --> 00:14:15,153 Anybody gives you any shit from now on, you come 89 00:14:15,166 --> 00:14:17,140 see me, Bruce Sweetland, I'll set them straight. 90 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,600 You want to just shoot the shit or learn the lay of the land, come on down. 91 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:26,939 And, uh, welcome to Highberger house. 92 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:29,270 Thanks. Uh, hey, uh, Bruce? 93 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:31,940 Yeah, man. 94 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:37,540 Uh, this uh, is this place... 95 00:14:38,470 --> 00:14:39,939 haunted? 96 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:42,710 Only by the spectre of failure. 97 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,430 Hey. Are you okay? 98 00:17:19,330 --> 00:17:20,920 You've come back. 99 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,529 I want to help you. 100 00:17:22,530 --> 00:17:26,400 Yes. Please. I need you. 101 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,960 I need your help. 102 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,300 Who are you? 103 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:33,120 What's the matter? 104 00:17:34,850 --> 00:17:37,049 No. You better go back. 105 00:17:37,050 --> 00:17:39,150 Why? I want to help you. 106 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:40,879 He's coming. 107 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,459 Who? Who's coming? 108 00:17:42,460 --> 00:17:44,839 Oh god, no. Please. 109 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,100 - What do you want me to do? - Help me! Please help me! 110 00:17:49,470 --> 00:17:50,850 No! 111 00:18:02,190 --> 00:18:04,820 I, um, heard you typing. 112 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:07,109 Well, you said to... 113 00:18:07,110 --> 00:18:11,360 well, uh, come on in, man. I'm a night guy. I could use the company. 114 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,480 You got a lot of sisters. 115 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,349 Oh, girlfriends. Well, ex-girl friends. 116 00:18:24,350 --> 00:18:26,909 Even got an ex-wife or two. I can relate. 117 00:18:26,910 --> 00:18:28,679 The "ex" part, I mean. 118 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,679 Care to partake? 119 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,420 No. Thanks. 120 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:34,969 Well, don't worry. 121 00:18:34,970 --> 00:18:36,743 I'm not gonna get you high and fuck your ass. 122 00:18:36,756 --> 00:18:38,540 Even if I did swing that way. 123 00:18:38,850 --> 00:18:40,219 I don't shoot the creative juice, man. 124 00:18:40,220 --> 00:18:42,669 I can't waste a drop. I'm saving it all for the book. 125 00:18:42,670 --> 00:18:44,499 You know, a fuck, a quick hand job? 126 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,550 It's like throwing a chapter with the Kleenex, man. 127 00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:51,630 I probably squandered a dozen novels on the beauties on the wall already. 128 00:18:52,290 --> 00:18:55,480 No sir, I'm a fucking monk, man. I'm a fucking monk. 129 00:18:56,790 --> 00:18:58,900 - No. - Come on. 130 00:18:59,090 --> 00:19:00,870 - All right. - All right. 131 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:06,769 It's quiet in here. 132 00:19:06,770 --> 00:19:09,559 Yeah, like the proverbial fucking tomb. 133 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,549 A lot quieter than my place. 134 00:19:11,550 --> 00:19:12,689 Yeah, really? 135 00:19:12,690 --> 00:19:15,160 What do you, uh... What do you hear? 136 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,759 Um, some kind of a... you know, noises in the walls. 137 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,369 Well, it's probably the pipes or something. 138 00:19:23,370 --> 00:19:25,448 As you might have noticed, there's not a lot 139 00:19:25,461 --> 00:19:27,550 of maintenance that goes on in this place. 140 00:19:27,980 --> 00:19:30,079 You ever hear anything like that? 141 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,740 Nope. 142 00:19:32,790 --> 00:19:35,300 You ever heard any, uh, voices? 143 00:19:35,730 --> 00:19:37,620 What kind of voices? 144 00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:41,980 Like, uh, crying. 145 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:50,830 There's a signpost up ahead, you're next stop... 146 00:19:51,350 --> 00:19:53,160 the twilight zone. 147 00:19:55,230 --> 00:19:56,860 Your one. 148 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:01,019 Man, it's easy to see and hear weird shit in this place, man. 149 00:20:01,020 --> 00:20:04,389 It's a weird fucking place full of weird fucking people. 150 00:20:04,390 --> 00:20:08,599 I mean, we're writers, man. I wouldn't worry. 151 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,080 Besides, it's not as if you're seeing ghosts or anything. 152 00:20:14,260 --> 00:20:16,140 So you said. 153 00:21:49,820 --> 00:21:53,449 I had only briefly shaken hands with love. 154 00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:55,209 Hand was a claw. 155 00:21:55,210 --> 00:21:58,930 That claw held me in its thrall, and threatened not only my heart but my life. 156 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:02,929 I would kill or be killed for her if need be, so great was my love. 157 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:05,723 And that love was to be tested. And a life was 158 00:22:05,736 --> 00:22:08,540 to be given, as if in sacrifice to an angry god. 159 00:22:11,150 --> 00:22:13,510 Jesus, did I write that? 160 00:22:18,050 --> 00:22:18,890 No. 161 00:22:19,330 --> 00:22:21,040 No, no. 162 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:26,530 Come on. 163 00:22:28,450 --> 00:22:29,980 Shit! 164 00:23:15,230 --> 00:23:17,050 Hey, hey, hey, rob. 165 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,819 How was your first night in the old, uh, Highberger house? 166 00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:21,279 Okay, thanks. 167 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,109 Did you, uh, did you get any writing done? 168 00:23:24,110 --> 00:23:27,150 Uh, not a whole lot, just getting acclimated first. 169 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:33,370 So, what are you writing? 170 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:36,220 It's a romance. A dark romance. 171 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,549 Hmm, a doomed romance? 172 00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:40,309 That's the best kind. 173 00:23:40,310 --> 00:23:44,089 Just what the world needs, another bodice ripper. 174 00:23:44,090 --> 00:23:46,409 Well, I wouldn't call it a bodice ripper. 175 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:49,520 It's very contemporary. Very, real world. 176 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:51,899 Oh, I see. 177 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:54,369 Autobiographical, I assume. 178 00:23:54,370 --> 00:23:57,849 A litter of great conquests by the great lover. 179 00:23:57,850 --> 00:24:00,760 No, no, nothing like that. It's something... 180 00:24:00,990 --> 00:24:04,450 personal. Intimate. Really on a small scale. 181 00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:13,009 Listen. 182 00:24:13,010 --> 00:24:16,000 Don't worry about them. Just a bunch of failures. 183 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,040 But you, are gonna have to be the new guy, at least for a while. 184 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:21,930 Thanks. 185 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,239 I'm gonna go up to my room, I've got some work to do. 186 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,800 Cool. Cool. 187 00:24:27,510 --> 00:24:29,309 Well, good luck with it, man. 188 00:24:29,310 --> 00:24:31,110 Thanks. 189 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,040 Right good. 190 00:24:36,380 --> 00:24:38,500 Right well. 191 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760 Thanks. 192 00:25:47,150 --> 00:25:48,860 Everything okay? 193 00:25:51,980 --> 00:25:53,470 Hello. 194 00:26:05,340 --> 00:26:06,910 I'm afraid. 195 00:26:09,930 --> 00:26:11,550 Where are your clothes? 196 00:26:19,250 --> 00:26:20,660 He took them. 197 00:26:21,140 --> 00:26:22,620 Who? 198 00:26:23,770 --> 00:26:25,600 Are you in pain? 199 00:26:28,110 --> 00:26:30,100 What did he do to you? 200 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,700 Oh god, no. 201 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,210 He's here. 202 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,870 Oh, we shouldn't speak again. 203 00:27:03,290 --> 00:27:05,359 He doesn't want you near me. 204 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,390 - Who doesn't want me near you? - Ssh! 205 00:27:11,390 --> 00:27:13,040 Touch me. 206 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,390 Am I real? 207 00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:30,290 What? 208 00:27:31,790 --> 00:27:33,410 Am I real? 209 00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:37,119 Am I here with you? 210 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,360 Of course. Of course you are. 211 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,540 And you can feel me as I feel you? 212 00:27:43,930 --> 00:27:46,300 Yes. Yes, of course I can. 213 00:27:48,860 --> 00:27:51,150 Thank you. 214 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,950 Wait! 215 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,120 Tell me your name. 216 00:28:27,660 --> 00:28:29,290 I'm Valerie. 217 00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:37,540 Valerie, please don't go. 218 00:28:50,510 --> 00:28:53,310 Stay away. He'll hurt you. 219 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,410 Please. Just forget about me. 220 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,580 No! No! 221 00:29:01,860 --> 00:29:03,580 No! 222 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,059 Let her out of there, you son-of-a-bitch! 223 00:29:08,060 --> 00:29:10,010 Let her out! 224 00:29:11,330 --> 00:29:13,670 Gettin' old, loverboy. 225 00:29:18,190 --> 00:29:19,759 There was a woman on these stairs. 226 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,370 Mr. Hanisey. 227 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:25,490 I will not tolerate one more escapade like tonight. 228 00:29:26,010 --> 00:29:28,289 You do it again and you're out. 229 00:29:28,290 --> 00:29:30,430 Do we understand each other? 230 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,809 All right. Fine, I'm sorry. 231 00:29:32,810 --> 00:29:34,160 Good. 232 00:29:34,540 --> 00:29:36,059 You've been warned. 233 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:38,200 What's behind these walls? 234 00:29:39,810 --> 00:29:42,189 The porthole to another dimension. 235 00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:44,949 - You're kidding? - Jesus Christ. Of course, I'm kidding. 236 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:47,969 You think I'm out of my mind? It's a crawl space. 237 00:29:47,970 --> 00:29:51,139 What do you think? Hot water pipes, electrical wires. 238 00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:53,489 More than a few dead rats, I daresay. 239 00:29:53,490 --> 00:29:55,979 - And that's it? - That's it. 240 00:29:55,980 --> 00:29:58,859 - That and your imagination. - Are you sure? 241 00:29:58,860 --> 00:30:02,080 Do not press me, Mr. Hanisey. 242 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:06,730 The gutter is full of young men just one step away from where you are now. 243 00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:12,139 Let's all let this young man get back to work. 244 00:30:12,140 --> 00:30:14,620 Shall we? 245 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,110 She's a tough old bitch, ain't she? 246 00:30:23,970 --> 00:30:27,650 You've, um... you've never seen anything up there on the stairs? 247 00:30:28,190 --> 00:30:30,110 Anything strange. 248 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,270 There's nothing in Highberger house that isn't strange. 249 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,820 Why, you've seen ghosts after all? 250 00:30:37,410 --> 00:30:38,980 Um... 251 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,510 I think maybe, uh, I think maybe I am. 252 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,759 Now that'd be cool, wouldn't it? 253 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,610 Why don't you come on down and we can crack a few beers? 254 00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:50,900 Come on. 255 00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:55,590 Hey man, come on in. 256 00:30:58,170 --> 00:31:00,970 Just, uh, wondering, the person who had the apartment before me... 257 00:31:01,650 --> 00:31:03,619 how did, um, how did terry die? 258 00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:05,349 Suicide. Razor blade. 259 00:31:05,350 --> 00:31:07,679 Schick, schick, thick. In the tub, man. 260 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,490 There was blood everywhere. It was a real mess. 261 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,400 What have you been seeing up there? I mean, like, a person? 262 00:31:16,370 --> 00:31:18,299 I saw a woman. 263 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:19,539 A woman. 264 00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:22,569 Did a young woman named Valerie ever live here? Or die here? 265 00:31:22,570 --> 00:31:24,890 Long hair, blue eyes, beautiful. 266 00:31:25,210 --> 00:31:27,449 Not that I know of, man. Damn it! 267 00:31:27,450 --> 00:31:29,920 - Well, she's here now. - Jesus. 268 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,529 The beautiful ghost of Highberger house. 269 00:31:33,530 --> 00:31:36,810 Wooooweeewoooo! 270 00:31:37,670 --> 00:31:40,389 You know, I think I have a picture of her in my room. 271 00:31:40,390 --> 00:31:43,130 I... I... I'd love to see it, man. 272 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,150 Looks like a new book? 273 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,520 Yeah, that's right. Draft 15. 274 00:31:52,330 --> 00:31:54,350 What's that? Draft 16? 275 00:31:54,780 --> 00:31:58,559 Uh, that's, uh, just something that I've been 276 00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,839 playing around with for a few years. 277 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,699 I don't know if it's worth a fart in a wind storm. 278 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:04,618 Oh, well look, why don't I get those beers and 279 00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:06,559 you, uh, get that picture for me. All right? 280 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,540 - Okay. - Cool. 281 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,319 Now, uh... is light all right? 282 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:23,719 It's fine. 283 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:29,380 Valerie had a body made for love. 284 00:32:32,510 --> 00:32:34,880 What the fuck are you doing! 285 00:32:45,140 --> 00:32:47,550 He was looking at my fucking work behind my back. 286 00:32:47,930 --> 00:32:49,799 He was looking at my secret book. 287 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,219 You should not have done that, Mr. Hanisey. 288 00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,839 That's not the way a real writer would behave! 289 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,759 What the fuck do you know what real writers do? 290 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,839 You're kidding yourself. This place is a fucking asylum 291 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,839 and you're all a bunch of fucking lunatics! 292 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,329 And before you say a thing, miss bloom, don't worry, 293 00:33:03,330 --> 00:33:05,253 I'm packing up and getting the fuck out of 294 00:33:05,266 --> 00:33:07,200 this Highberger freak show as fast as I can! 295 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:11,210 And who the fuck is Valerie? 296 00:33:11,580 --> 00:33:13,259 Tell me! 297 00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:16,769 A product of your wild imagination, young man. 298 00:33:16,770 --> 00:33:18,720 Bullshit. 299 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,990 Did she die here? 300 00:33:24,710 --> 00:33:26,739 Did you kill her? 301 00:33:26,740 --> 00:33:29,300 Now you're just being silly. 302 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:34,430 Get out of my way! 303 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:00,490 It's your fucking blood on our masterpiece. 304 00:34:13,170 --> 00:34:14,639 Valerie. 305 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,820 Oh my god, it's you. 306 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,470 You've come. 307 00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:28,880 You're really here. 308 00:34:32,430 --> 00:34:34,410 Take him. 309 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,600 Put an end to this. 310 00:34:38,410 --> 00:34:40,450 Who're you talking to? 311 00:34:48,650 --> 00:34:50,330 Oh god, no. 312 00:34:50,970 --> 00:34:54,170 You spineless, little man. 313 00:34:57,370 --> 00:34:59,690 You've only yourself to blame. 314 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,580 That's all for you. 315 00:35:16,830 --> 00:35:18,559 My... 316 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,550 beloved. 317 00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:24,059 Is all this death the price of freedom? 318 00:35:24,060 --> 00:35:26,310 All for you. 319 00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:29,619 Not for me. 320 00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:31,640 It's your hunger, not mine. 321 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,940 I'm so sorry. 322 00:35:36,190 --> 00:35:38,059 I thought you loved me. 323 00:35:38,060 --> 00:35:39,910 I do. 324 00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:42,910 I worship you. 325 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,050 I... adore you. 326 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,500 I want to wash you with my... tongue. 327 00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:45,080 Can we talk? 328 00:36:56,530 --> 00:36:58,370 Sit down. 329 00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:03,400 Sit! 330 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,070 Let me give you some advice. 331 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,710 Get out of this place. 332 00:37:14,820 --> 00:37:18,320 Well you're a young man. You can do anything you want. 333 00:37:18,730 --> 00:37:22,640 Fuck writing! Nobody reads anymore anyway. 334 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:26,830 Thanks. 335 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,180 This poster. 336 00:37:34,630 --> 00:37:36,109 Yes, uh... 337 00:37:36,110 --> 00:37:38,640 a piece of my past. 338 00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:41,019 I've seen that creature before. 339 00:37:41,020 --> 00:37:44,630 I knew someone had to have seen that piece-of-shit movie. 340 00:37:45,210 --> 00:37:47,660 Adapted from a novel by Neal Everest? 341 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,100 Neal Everest, Everett Nealy. Not exactly subtle. 342 00:37:52,550 --> 00:37:54,649 My guilty little secret is out. 343 00:37:54,650 --> 00:37:58,559 Yes, I wrote a very bad horror novel in my youth, 344 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,580 and they made it into an even worse hunk of celluloid. 345 00:38:03,190 --> 00:38:07,790 My one little claim to fame, staring at me from the wall. 346 00:38:08,550 --> 00:38:10,370 Pathetic, isn't it? 347 00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:14,390 I'm telling you, get out, son. 348 00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:16,870 And never come back. 349 00:38:17,850 --> 00:38:20,260 That monster, the creature... 350 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,740 you want the poster? 351 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:25,949 It's yours. 352 00:38:25,950 --> 00:38:30,950 Just don't tell that bloom bitch I'm a published author or I'm out on my ass. 353 00:38:31,620 --> 00:38:35,119 I want to know about Valerie. The girl in the book. 354 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,749 The girl on the stairs. 355 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:39,490 - Valerie doesn't exist. - Bullshit. 356 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,059 I've seen her. I've actually touched her. 357 00:38:42,060 --> 00:38:44,749 Touched her? That's not possible. 358 00:38:44,750 --> 00:38:48,069 There is no Valerie! She isn't alive! She doesn't exist! 359 00:38:48,070 --> 00:38:50,229 No, she does, and she's in Highberger house. 360 00:38:50,230 --> 00:38:54,950 Highberger house is filled with the failed dreams of rotted imaginations. 361 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,099 Like your monster? 362 00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,650 - For example. - What is it called? 363 00:39:00,770 --> 00:39:02,679 Othaki... 364 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,129 the blood fiend from hell. 365 00:39:05,130 --> 00:39:07,059 That was the title of the novel. 366 00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:10,420 My great contribution to culture. 367 00:39:11,170 --> 00:39:13,219 Your blood fiend from hell? 368 00:39:13,220 --> 00:39:16,790 It's here, too. In the walls, I saw him. 369 00:39:17,210 --> 00:39:19,210 That's not possible. 370 00:39:19,670 --> 00:39:24,669 He's a pituitary case in a shitty rubber suit in a shitty old monster movie. 371 00:39:24,670 --> 00:39:27,139 - He's got Valerie. - I said he doesn't exist! 372 00:39:27,140 --> 00:39:29,319 How did she die? I need to know how she died! 373 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,509 She never died! She never lived! She isn't real! 374 00:39:32,510 --> 00:39:34,399 She is, god-damn it! I've seen her ghost! 375 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,089 This is not a fucking ghost story! 376 00:39:37,090 --> 00:39:39,840 - Then who is she! - Get out! That's enough! 377 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,409 Jesus. 378 00:39:42,410 --> 00:39:44,749 Everybody in this fucking place is fucking crazy! 379 00:39:44,750 --> 00:39:47,650 Including you, young man! We're writers! 380 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,530 Holy shit. 381 00:40:12,170 --> 00:40:14,829 Nothing behind the walls, huh? Just my imagination? 382 00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:17,450 Some things are just better left alone. 383 00:40:20,210 --> 00:40:22,369 I don't think this has anything to do with my imagination. 384 00:40:22,370 --> 00:40:24,260 Don't touch anything. 385 00:40:24,590 --> 00:40:26,600 I've gotta call the police. 386 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,960 Fuck the police. 387 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,519 Valerie on the stairs. 388 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,709 It took three writers to construct. 389 00:40:37,710 --> 00:40:40,219 Bruce, Neely... 390 00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:41,699 and you. 391 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:45,559 I've seen the monster, Patricia! Neely's beast, his great creation? 392 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,440 What about you? What do you contribute? 393 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,230 Don't blame this on me. 394 00:40:51,630 --> 00:40:53,289 What's that hammering? 395 00:40:53,290 --> 00:40:57,510 It's your fiend, Othaki, your monster from hell is fed up living inside the walls. 396 00:40:58,030 --> 00:41:01,109 He killed Bruce, and now it wants out. 397 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:02,339 Nonsense. 398 00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:04,269 We call that bullshit on my farm. 399 00:41:04,270 --> 00:41:05,953 I think that between all tree of you, working on 400 00:41:05,966 --> 00:41:08,259 your secret masterpiece, you brought it to life. 401 00:41:08,260 --> 00:41:11,140 - That is ridiculous. - Is it? 402 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,919 Think about all the lost dreams that have been dreamed in this place. 403 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,039 Think of the energy that must be stored here. 404 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,699 Bruce's famous creative juices never been released. 405 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:27,940 Decades of imagination trapped in Highberger house. 406 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:30,799 All it needed was a focus. 407 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,289 And the three of you gave it one. 408 00:41:33,290 --> 00:41:36,490 Valerie and the fiend, beauty and the beast. 409 00:41:36,890 --> 00:41:39,870 The house finally had somewhere to put all the frustrations. 410 00:41:41,230 --> 00:41:43,489 And made your words flesh. 411 00:41:43,490 --> 00:41:46,060 Your imagination brought to life. 412 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,690 You are so full of shit your eyes are brown. 413 00:41:49,930 --> 00:41:52,930 I'm getting out of this fucking madhouse. 414 00:41:54,630 --> 00:41:56,819 I need to see Valerie again. 415 00:41:56,820 --> 00:42:01,080 She isn't real. Go write your own dream girl. 416 00:42:01,510 --> 00:42:04,190 - Where is she? - You can't have her. 417 00:42:04,630 --> 00:42:06,859 - She belongs to the beast. - Why? 418 00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:09,820 Because we wrote her that way! 419 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,830 Oh, Jesus, it's true. 420 00:42:34,460 --> 00:42:36,250 You live. 421 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,190 You've come. 422 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,590 One kiss before you go. 423 00:42:44,370 --> 00:42:46,880 I was the one that made you beautiful. 424 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,540 I know. 425 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,549 You're the only woman that can't say no to me. 426 00:42:55,550 --> 00:42:57,430 A kiss. 427 00:43:10,150 --> 00:43:14,300 Oh, Valerie, the times I've imagined this. 428 00:43:17,290 --> 00:43:20,180 So why did you let me be punished? 429 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,920 Over and over and over. 430 00:43:26,860 --> 00:43:29,249 Me and all the others. 431 00:43:29,250 --> 00:43:34,910 Oh, I was a sad, lonely, angry bitch. 432 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,950 He was right, I poured all of my rage into that book. 433 00:43:40,670 --> 00:43:43,000 You know, my love, too. 434 00:43:43,380 --> 00:43:45,849 Valerie, I'm so sorry. 435 00:43:45,850 --> 00:43:48,989 I didn't know that you could be touched. 436 00:43:48,990 --> 00:43:51,440 That you could be hurt. 437 00:43:51,990 --> 00:43:53,769 I'm sorry. 438 00:43:53,770 --> 00:43:55,700 I'm sorry. 439 00:43:57,330 --> 00:44:01,410 My sweet Valerie. My sweet, lovely Valerie. 440 00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:04,180 No. 441 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,630 Not yours. 442 00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:10,950 What do you mean? Of course you're mine. I made you. 443 00:44:10,951 --> 00:44:11,739 No. 444 00:44:11,740 --> 00:44:14,830 Valerie, don't go. No, don't go, please! 445 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,170 I love you! 446 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:26,910 Patricia? 447 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:29,040 Patricia! 448 00:44:33,830 --> 00:44:35,670 Holy shit. 449 00:44:46,710 --> 00:44:48,210 Patricia. 450 00:45:04,340 --> 00:45:05,549 You should go. Give me the gun. 451 00:45:05,550 --> 00:45:06,880 No. 452 00:45:08,070 --> 00:45:09,639 I need to see it. 453 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,459 I need to see my beast. My creation. 454 00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:14,939 Not some guy in a rubber suit. 455 00:45:14,940 --> 00:45:17,729 The real Othaki. 456 00:45:17,730 --> 00:45:20,730 Look, it's killed Sweetland and Patricia. You're next. 457 00:45:21,780 --> 00:45:23,410 But why? 458 00:45:23,770 --> 00:45:26,749 It wants to be free. I think they both do. 459 00:45:26,750 --> 00:45:30,130 They don't want you to write their ending. They want to live it for themselves. 460 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,790 They've become real, to end it, haven't they? 461 00:45:36,470 --> 00:45:38,480 They are my children. 462 00:45:39,830 --> 00:45:42,280 Let me help you destroy them. 463 00:45:44,090 --> 00:45:45,850 Fine. 464 00:46:04,170 --> 00:46:05,999 What's down there? 465 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,029 Come on, you wrote it. What's down there? 466 00:46:08,030 --> 00:46:09,559 The hellhole. 467 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,960 The fiend's private torture chamber. 468 00:46:13,290 --> 00:46:15,670 You sick fucks. 469 00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:18,599 The torture stuff was Sweetland. 470 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,389 He was a big fan of de Sade. 471 00:46:20,390 --> 00:46:23,079 Why didn't you just finish your fucking book and try to find a publisher? 472 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,459 Why did you keep going, year after year? 473 00:46:25,460 --> 00:46:29,190 It was an addiction. Every night. 474 00:46:30,250 --> 00:46:33,379 Picking up where Bruce or Patricia left off. 475 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:37,059 Writing on, leading it on to a darker and darker place. 476 00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:40,569 The body count rising. We couldn't stop. 477 00:46:40,570 --> 00:46:43,259 What body count? I thought there was only Valerie. 478 00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:44,939 She was the only one alive. 479 00:46:44,940 --> 00:46:47,829 But there were others. Sweetland would pick them up. 480 00:46:47,830 --> 00:46:51,159 Runaways, prostitutes passed their sell date. 481 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,149 Girls who would never be missed. The lonely ones. 482 00:46:55,150 --> 00:46:58,249 - You fed them to your monster? - God, no. 483 00:46:58,250 --> 00:47:01,019 Bruce would get them high. 484 00:47:01,020 --> 00:47:03,859 Get them to tell him their hard-luck stories. 485 00:47:03,860 --> 00:47:07,769 And he'd fall asleep. When he woke up they were gone. 486 00:47:07,770 --> 00:47:10,280 Like smoke, not a trace. 487 00:47:10,910 --> 00:47:13,640 And why not Valerie? Why didn't he kill her? 488 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:20,060 Oh, if you had created Valerie, would you kill her? Hm? 489 00:47:21,830 --> 00:47:24,780 - And it's all in your book. - Oh, of course. 490 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,999 - The power of the imagination. - You're a despicable piece of work, Nealy. 491 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,879 I am, I am, I am, of course, I am. 492 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,589 But I... I didn't know it would come alive. None of us did, it was story. 493 00:47:34,590 --> 00:47:37,880 My last chance to make something that would last! 494 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,229 Valerie on the stairs. 495 00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:42,740 That was my idea. 496 00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:45,200 And you're proud of it? 497 00:47:46,330 --> 00:47:48,939 It's not like they were murdered in front of me. 498 00:47:48,940 --> 00:47:50,499 It's not like I truly knew. 499 00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:52,548 Are you telling me you don't know the difference between 500 00:47:52,561 --> 00:47:54,619 something that you imagine and something that's real? 501 00:47:54,620 --> 00:47:56,429 Do you? 502 00:47:56,430 --> 00:47:59,600 Is there any difference really? 503 00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:02,519 They were all in my head. 504 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:07,249 The life I lived yesterday, the dreams I dreamed last night. 505 00:48:07,250 --> 00:48:09,670 The words I put to paper. 506 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,030 All in here... 507 00:48:13,410 --> 00:48:15,370 mixed up together. 508 00:48:16,050 --> 00:48:17,539 You are out of your fucking mind. 509 00:48:17,540 --> 00:48:21,320 Pff, and you're not. You love her, don't you? 510 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,080 The girl we made up. The girl we wrote. 511 00:48:27,150 --> 00:48:28,899 You want to be her hero. 512 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:31,720 I'm going to finish your fucking story for you. 513 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,360 Of course you are. 514 00:48:36,020 --> 00:48:38,539 That's why you're here. 515 00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:41,709 To bring it all to a close. To end it. 516 00:48:41,710 --> 00:48:46,850 Now I never saw Bruce’s final pages. Maybe he wrote you. 517 00:48:47,410 --> 00:48:50,700 Did you think of that. Yes, maybe. 518 00:48:51,060 --> 00:48:55,599 If you survive this and you try to leave Highberger house, you won't be able to. 519 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:56,659 Bullshit. 520 00:48:56,660 --> 00:48:59,639 I had a life before I came here and I'll have a life after it's all over. 521 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,920 - Will you? - You need a fucking shrink. 522 00:49:03,150 --> 00:49:06,230 No, I need a bestseller! 523 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,600 Give me my ending and we'll all be happy. 524 00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:34,570 - Is this place your creation, too? - No. 525 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:39,830 This was mostly Sweetland'S. He specialized in the outré. 526 00:49:46,770 --> 00:49:48,490 Oh, shit! 527 00:49:54,260 --> 00:49:56,000 Come on. 528 00:49:59,150 --> 00:50:01,070 Ah, fuck. 529 00:50:33,090 --> 00:50:34,580 Anna. 530 00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,120 Oh, shit. 531 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,300 Neely. 532 00:50:56,100 --> 00:51:00,440 You're supposed to save her. 533 00:51:01,570 --> 00:51:03,560 Neely! 534 00:52:01,220 --> 00:52:03,440 - I'm here. - For Valerie. 535 00:52:04,050 --> 00:52:06,110 Of course, you are. 536 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,560 And I'm here to stop you. 537 00:52:10,750 --> 00:52:13,990 They're all dead now. All of them. 538 00:52:14,580 --> 00:52:16,720 And we're free to... 539 00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:20,229 Write our own lives. 540 00:52:20,230 --> 00:52:22,000 Or deaths. 541 00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:25,850 We shall see. Won't we? 542 00:52:26,620 --> 00:52:29,580 It's the victor who writes history. 543 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,380 It's just you and me now. 544 00:52:44,050 --> 00:52:45,509 The hero... 545 00:52:45,510 --> 00:52:47,730 and the beast. 546 00:52:50,610 --> 00:52:53,280 The tale often told. 547 00:52:55,060 --> 00:52:56,930 Valerie. 548 00:53:00,750 --> 00:53:02,150 Valerie. 549 00:53:03,790 --> 00:53:06,580 What are you doing? Get away from him. 550 00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:08,379 Help me. 551 00:53:08,380 --> 00:53:11,390 We both knew it would come to this. 552 00:53:11,770 --> 00:53:17,120 You and me fighting to the death. My beautiful Valerie. 553 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,350 You do want her, don't you? 554 00:53:23,150 --> 00:53:25,370 - Please help me. - Leave she alone. 555 00:53:25,420 --> 00:53:27,330 Take me hand, Valerie. 556 00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:33,859 You love the way I touch you, don't you? 557 00:53:33,860 --> 00:53:36,000 Yes, yes. 558 00:53:37,430 --> 00:53:39,300 No, no. 559 00:53:42,110 --> 00:53:43,960 Valerie. Run! Run! 560 00:53:48,420 --> 00:53:49,570 Fuck! 561 00:54:03,940 --> 00:54:06,329 Go ahead, shoot! 562 00:54:06,330 --> 00:54:09,159 Then I'll spit the bullet right back at you. 563 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,059 Fine. Then I'll spend the bullet where it counts. 564 00:54:12,060 --> 00:54:14,729 It is full of pricktiss and you can rip me up and send me to hell. 565 00:54:14,730 --> 00:54:16,789 Although I'll be happy once this bitch is dead. 566 00:54:16,790 --> 00:54:18,420 No. 567 00:54:18,730 --> 00:54:20,469 Kill the others and now you want me dead too? 568 00:54:20,470 --> 00:54:22,660 No. no, I just want you to know. 569 00:54:22,690 --> 00:54:23,459 No. 570 00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:25,328 We'll find another woman, what's the big deal? 571 00:54:25,341 --> 00:54:27,219 Look at the harem you got hanging here. 572 00:54:27,220 --> 00:54:29,379 I'll kill her and you can do whatever you want with me. 573 00:54:29,380 --> 00:54:30,619 Rob, please don't. 574 00:54:30,620 --> 00:54:32,249 Don't you dare. 575 00:54:32,250 --> 00:54:35,369 What is that to you, she's just another flesh garden. 576 00:54:35,370 --> 00:54:39,369 No, not that one. All the others are bloody shit. 577 00:54:39,370 --> 00:54:42,169 And she loved me, she's mine. 578 00:54:42,170 --> 00:54:43,420 No. 579 00:54:43,970 --> 00:54:45,710 She's mine. 580 00:54:49,290 --> 00:54:51,040 - My Valerie. - Run! 581 00:55:02,700 --> 00:55:04,750 Come on, come on. let's go. 582 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:08,609 Come on, Valerie. 583 00:55:08,610 --> 00:55:09,869 Where are you taking me? 584 00:55:09,870 --> 00:55:11,639 Take you out of here, I'm not going to lose you. 585 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:12,989 I can't leave here. 586 00:55:12,990 --> 00:55:15,490 Yes, you can. It's over. You're free. 587 00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:19,739 It's not your choice. We're not free. Don't you understand. They finished it. 588 00:55:19,740 --> 00:55:22,920 No, we finished it, Valerie. 589 00:55:23,090 --> 00:55:24,219 Come on, we gotta go. 590 00:55:24,220 --> 00:55:26,430 No, I can't go out here. 591 00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:29,360 - Valerie, please. come on - I can't doing this. 592 00:55:29,570 --> 00:55:32,429 - Valerie. Come on. - No, no. 593 00:55:32,430 --> 00:55:34,470 - Valerie... - No... 594 00:56:08,220 --> 00:56:11,189 Come out there son. 595 00:56:11,190 --> 00:56:14,970 Put down the gun. Put your hands up.