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Synopsis: A character-driven sci-fi mystery about a dysfunctional family living on a ranch in TX threatened by a cryptid in their woods. Ultimately, they must overcome their interpersonal conflict in...
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2017
88 min
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and it just so happens that

right now

I'm exploring a theory on alien

ancestry.

You see, the origins of the Rh

blood type

are entirely unknown, right?

Where did it come from?

I believe that there's

a connection between--

- Ma'am, this is of no interest

to me.

- Pardon me,

are you the Rebecca Otis?

- Yeah.

- I've read all your work.

I followed your research on

Loch Ness.

I'm a Akiro Nagi.

I'm a local member

of the Bigfoot Field

Researchers Organization.

- Oh, that's great.

Yeah, I have a lot of

respect for the BFRO.

- Thank you.

- Mr. Nagi, what about

our security system?

- Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah.

- All right, I can not help you,

miss.

I'm sorry.

- Do you not wish to know

my theory?

Look, if I could just go

on your property

and take a look at the place

where the women were found.

That's all I'm asking.

- Why don't you go and

talk to my brother-in-law

over here, all right?

He believes this sci-fi crap.

He even had my wife believin'

it, too.

- Are you not a believer in

the paranormal, Mr. Mayfield?

I can see that you do

believe despite your attempts

to convince yourself otherwise.

I see it in people all the time.

They know deep down that these

extraordinary occurrences

are real,

but they're afraid of what

it might mean for their life.

You should know that I'm

attempting to contact the

coroner

to uncover the blood types of

the victims.

Good day.

- So, you a hunter?

- Uh, yes I am but that's

not mine.

- I've never really been.

Never even wanted to hunt.

I mean, not for animals.

Yeah, I been hunting criminals

over the last decade.

So whose is this?

- My wife's parents.

They lived here until they

passed.

We moved onto the property

about two and a half years ago.

- I bet you're good at hunting.

You just stalk your prey,

quiet, stealth like.

Bam!

- Are we gonna talk about

the case?

- Native Americans used signs

and symbols

to communicate their

ideas in their history

down through their

tribes, all the way down

through their generations.

The arrow carried

many different meanings.

Two arrows

facing the opposite direction?

Well that symbolized war.

Broken arrows,

that symbolized peace.

But crossed arrows...

Crossed arrows

represented friendship.

Now I wear the charm to

remember that even though

arrows can be used to be

deadly and destructive,

they can also be used

as a form of friendship.

I know I'm just some

old city boy detective,

but I hope that we

can all be friends

or at least friendly

during this investigation.

- Well, we're not standin' in

your way.

- All right.

Files.

Hannah...

Why don't you start by

tellin' me what you remember

from the night before

your dad found the bodies.

- Well, we were in the kitchen

talking

and we heard some noises

so we went outside,

but we didn't see anything.

- Any minor details?

- Well, my dad was mad at me

because I didn't fill up the

ice trays.

- That's good.

Details are important in an

investigation.

- Right.

Uh, Hannah, take me to the next

morning.

- You know I already reported on

all this.

- Oh come on, Sheriff,

you know how this goes.

- I'm not the sheriff.

- Hey, Tom, we just gotta

do our due diligence.

- Oh, excuse me.

- You okay?

- Uh-huh.

- She's got thin blood,

nosebleeds are common.

- Right.

Let me fill you in on this, Tom,

okay?

Those women were found

dead on your property

the day after your resignation.

And the worst of it all is your

footprints

were the only ones found

near the scene of the crime.

Those truths don't hold too

well for you, my friend.

- Now detective, I've

known Tom since forever.

- I'm not here to arrest

anybody,

but as of right now Tom

here is our only suspect

and he will be until I find

out otherwise, all right?

- Well, he's worked for

the law longer than I have,

you know, and he could help us

in the investigation, right?

- Nah. No.

Well you know what, Tom, I

do have one more question.

What happened with your wife?

Your brother-in-law said that

she was taken?

You never filed a missing

persons report

and you never opened up an

investigation

to go try to find her.

- My wife's not missing.

She wasn't taken.

She left us.

- Let's go take a look at

that crime scene, shall we?

Nice piece of property you have

here, Tom.

It's a nice piece of property.

How many acres did ya say

ya have?

- 200.

- Woo!

That's a lot.

- I can get ya those other

reports

and photographs down at the

office.

- Yeah, I still wanna

see the exact positions

those bodies would be layin' in.

- All right, sure.

- Well, thanks for makin'

yourself available, Tom.

This case might just

give me that FBI spot.

I do not know how anybody

can live out here.

- It's not so bad

once you get used to it.

- You got me?

Am I here? Okay.

- Oh my gosh, I got ya.

- Bold as ever.

But I'm glad to do it.

- I know.

- I'm gonna pat myself

on the back.

- I think you should.

I'm gonna pat you, too.

You did a great job, hm?

- I like my new camera.

- I know.

- All right, so,

we have done it.

Welcome to our home.

- Mom and Dad,

I'll always miss you,

but we are honored to

now live on this property

that you took such

great care of.

- Yeah, thank you.

Now my wife's gonna unpack

and I'm goin' to bed.

Goodnight.

Lily, look over here.

Don't be shy.

- Would you come out

from behind that camera?

- No.

- Yeah, come hold

my hand.

- I'm changin' jobs.

- Pick flowers with me.

- I'm gonna become

a cameraman.

- This is our place.

- I own some nice new

property.

Look at this place, it's

beautiful.

- She's happy here,

hm?

- Yeah,

she seems happy here.

You seem happy here.

- Hannah!

Hannah, come back

inside the gate.

- Don't worry,

Hannah,

your Mom's just paranoid.

- For real.

Rickey would agree.

It's not safe.

- Goodbye, Mom.

- Hannah I'm goin' into

town to get some things.

- Okay.

- You wanna ride with me.

- No.

And we'll be covering

more of that later tonight.

But now we wanna update you--

- So, Sheriff, what do ya think?

We gonna catch this murderer?

- It's just Tom now, Caroline.

- Well, it turns out serial

killers are good for business.

- Our very

own Cynthia Rodriguez

is in the field with the latest.

- Could you, uh, turn that up?

- We're discovering that

now multiple homicides

have emerged that are

similar to the events

that have affected the town

of Thorndale.

So far, these cases have

been discovered in Oregon,

Idaho, Nevada, Montana,

Colorado, Wyoming,

and the Carolinas.

I'm here with Detective Sydney.

Detective, what is the current

status of your investigation?

- Well, it's an evil crime

that's taken place here,

Cynthia.

I just want the citizens of

Thorndale

to know that this is my

top priority.

Once we have the

identification of these ladies

I'll give you more.

- And what about

the rumors that Mr. Mayfield

is being investigated?

- Well, unfortunately there's

more work

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