The Body Tree Page #3

Synopsis: When a group of Americans travel to Russian Siberia to honor the memory of their murdered friend, they uncover a plot that threatens all their lives.
 
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2017
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Guys?

Tony?

Hm?

Did you give Dan something?

Like what?

Drugs. Something crazy.

Bath salts or...

Helen, go f*** yourself.

I speak Spanish and so

(CHUCKLING)

because of that I deal meth

in Siberian back alleys?

Like I run a f***ing cartel?

That didn't answer

the question, Tony.

No, bro, I didn't

give him anything.

And it was after that ceremony

that he started

acting all crazy.

What do you mean crazy?

Crazy. Like when

we went upstairs,

he had some look

in his eye like...

Like what?

Like I wouldn't

be surprised if he...

Started hacking away at his

friends with a f***ing ax?

Actually,

that was still

surprising, but yeah.

He gonna live?

Yeah, impaled with a

screwdriver. Should be fine.

You know what? Will

you stop the sarcasm?

You think it's the

sarcasm that's killing him?

All this guy can ever

do is make a f***ing joke.

You are the joke.

Rez, back off.

Yeah, come to

his defense, Helen.

You faithful f***ing dog.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(COMMOTION)

Stop! Stop! Stop!

Uh oh.

Got some anger

issues there, Mikey.

Control yourselves.

Of all the f***ing

people to say that.

Hey!

What did that mean?

You worried?

Why should I be worried?

Maybe I know something

you don't want me to?

What is that a threat?

Or is the threat coming now?

About what you did to Kara.

To all those girls.

I heard those rumors

on campus too. Okay?

They're not true.

I know.

Kara called me!

Too drunk to do more than

mumble in the f***ing phone.

Her dress torn-

You don't know!

Okay? And you'll keep

your f***ing mouth shut!

Cause you're a coward.

Cowards can't even kill themselves

when maybe they should.

They try but they're

just too afraid.

My father hit a lot harder.

You're gonna have to

do better than that.

The Altai tell

us Kara, out there,

she can't find peace

in the afterlife.

Some people, they can't

find it in this life.

Never gonna be at peace.

They're just hanging around,

haunting the f*** out

of the rest of us.

Is that what you're doing?

Huh?

Well, at least you're taking

to abusing people while

they're conscious.

(GROANING)

There's something I

gotta show you upstairs.

(EERIE MUSIC)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Dan?

What does it mean?

(SOMBER MUSIC)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

During the ceremony,

your love for Kara should

have been manifested

as a good guiding spirit.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

If there is darkness, if there

is hate, then that too can...

Then the ceremony

releases that too?

Right.

What do you mean, hate?

For Kara.

We call it "Kyuryum"

but you may have a

different word for it.

Demon.

So the ceremony

created an evil...

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

It can not create.

It can only take the bad that

is already inside of you.

(WHEEZING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

So you're blaming us

for what happened to Dan?

Why would you do something

that risked our lives?

How I know?

You all friends of Kara, yes?

Yes.

All friends?

Yes.

All love Kara?

Yes.

Yeah.

No.

One of you...

Kill Kara.

You killed my sister.

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Only if a person who killed Kara

was at the ceremony can a

demon like this be released.

And it needs a body.

A host.

Yeah.

Dan is that host?

Dan die,

Kyuryum go out.

Into new body.

You.

Or you.

Or you.

It can possess anybody.

Apart from the person whose

evil helped to form it.

Kara's real killer?

Only this killer safe.

Come the f*** on, bro.

I told you all

it wasn't Brandon.

And this proves it?

This half-ass shaman?

Yeah? That's not really

grounds for an appeal.

You don't understand

this culture, okay?

The power that

these entities have.

Dan had some sort of

psychotic breakdown.

No, no, no, no.

The altitude, no sleep.

Hey guys, maybe he just

had a trauma. Reliving...

This truth!

Truth!

The truth is that you're lying.

Okay, I don't know why yet

but our friend's dying

while you're f***ing

wasting time.

We gotta get to a car.

You have one?

Sergei.

Where is it?

It's in the shed.

Take the path along the graves.

Can you drive stick?

Yeah, I do.

Okay, you two go get the car.

Hey,

you're not running things here!

Understand?!

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(DOOR SLAMMING)

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

The keys are inside.

(LIGHTS BUZZING)

Is that a?

Yeah, bro, that's a coffin.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

What are you saying?!

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(MENACING MUSIC)

Hey!

(CLAPPING)

Speak English!

You cannot take Dan to hospital.

Listen, listen, listen,

because if you do, Kyuyum is

going to escape into the world.

(INTENSE MUSIC)

You know what? Maybe you

didn't get the message...

(YELLING)

Mike!

So Piotr wants us

to just watch Dan die?

Step back. Please.

Just hear us out.

We destroy demon.

And save Dan.

And how are we

supposed to do that?

(UNSETTLING MUSIC)

Okay, there are

two ways of doing it.

First, Kara's murderer has

to confess to killing her.

And then Piotr's going

to perform a ceremony...

Yeah, cause it worked so well

the last time, right?

What's the second way?

We must kill murderer.

This person die,

demon die.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

So you're talking

about one of us?

Yes.

But right one.

Eric, bro,

if there's a dead body in here,

I'm gonna run crying down

the f***ing mountain.

(THUDDING)

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Joder, tio...

You know maybe they're right.

Maybe they, they use this coffin

to bury some more of

those crazy f***ing dolls.

Or maybe they knew

they'd be needing one.

Listen, listen.

The murderer has to

confess to killing Kara.

What if this

person, this killer,

doesn't come forward?

Then our friend, Piotr's,

gonna have to take matters

into his own hands.

Aren't you?

Take your best guess at which

one of us you think did it?

(SCREAMING)

F***!

Move! Move!

Oh my God.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(FOREBODING MUSIC)

Piotr asks,

he says we gotta get

Tony and Eric back.

And we gotta tie everyone up.

What the f*** is

he talking about?

Kyuryum, the demon, can

enter either one of us.

I've got to get to

Eric! He doesn't know!

No, you stay!

How long will it take?

Two minutes.

Five.

If all of us are tied up,

Piotr can find out which

one of us turns and then...

Kill one of us?

You're just gonna tie us up

and then kill one of us?!

Not kill. Stop!

It gives the person who

killed Kara more time to...

Admit what they did and

to perform the ceremony.

We have to do this!

(SCREAMING)

Wo, wo, wo, wo!

Hey, back the f*** off of her!

(CRASHING)

Hey, stop, stop stop, stop!

(COMMOTION)

(INTENSE MUSIC)

Calm down!

These are dark f***ing

forces we're dealing with!

I've spent my life

studying rituals like this!

Omens, the occult...

Forgive us if we don't view you

as a beacon of f***ing truth.

What if Piotr, here,

thinks that we are all in

on Kara's murder?

What if he is tying us up

so he can kill all of us?

What if that's the

reason why we're here?

What if that's the

reason why there are

f***ing graves out

in the forest?!

You can't make decisions

based on paranoia!

We should base them on

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