The Dark Tapes Page #5

Synopsis: A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Production: Epic Pictures
  17 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
2016
98 min
Website
53 Views


That's uh, that's my kitchen.

I sometimes cook.

- Let's see your bedroom Jerry.

- Yeah, yeah, sure,

we have to backtrack,

so hold on.

There's the living room,

and we got to go

down the hallway.

There's the bathroom, sorry.

And then, there's the bedroom.

That's it, nothing special.

Okay.

Alright, that's it.

Nothing special.

- Very nice Jerry.

Thanks for showing me around.

- No problem.

I didn't know I was gonna

be giving a tour, though

so excuse the mess.

- That's a

very nice bachelor pad

that you have all to yourself.

You like me a lot

Jerry, don't you?

- Yeah.

- Do you wanna do something

for me that would,

- what is it?

- Ummm, sorry.

It's a little kinky.

Go get a big kitchen

knife for me.

I'll be waiting right

here when you get back.

- I have a pocket knife

in my desk, is that okay?

- Even better.

- Okay, hold on.

It's got to be here somewhere.

- Very good Jerry.

- Like this, is that okay?

- You know what

would be really hot

if you could do a

little something for me.

- Okay, what do

you want me to do?

- I have this fetish,

if you could just

take that knife and,

cut your hand a

little bit for me.

- I don't know about that...

- Jerry, it would turn

me and Sindy on so much.

No guy has ever

done this for me.

I want you to be the first.

- Okay I'll try.

I'm sorry, I can't, it'll hurt.

- Jerry baby, look at me.

Put that knife on your hand

and cut yourself for me,

just a little bit.

- Kinda liked doing that.

- Do you wanna be with me?

- I do.

- Really be with me?

I know of a way we can

be together, for real.

You would like

that, wouldn't you?

Me, you, and Sindy,

the three of us to be together?

- Of course.

- You would do anything

for me, wouldn't you?

- I would.

- I just need you to do one

more thing for me, okay?

- Okay.

- I want you to take the knife

and cut your throat open.

- What?

- Jerry, we'll be together,

forever, I promise.

Do it for me.

- I don't wanna do that!

Why would you want

me to cut my throat?

- Baby, because you

want me and I want you.

You can do this.

You know this is the only way.

- No!

- Please, we'll be

together, I promise.

- I don't feel well.

- I know, I know.

It'll be over

before you know it.

- No!

No!

I don't want to die.

- Jerry!

- Please don't make me do this.

- Jerry, take that knife

and slit your throat.

Very good,

do it for me baby,

you're doing great.

You were so close,

baby, lets try again.

Jerry, baby look at me.

Jerry, look at me!

You're doing great.

Just do as I do okay, ready?

- No!

Please, don't make me.

- So close.

- I don't wanna die.

- We'll be together soon.

- I don't wanna...

- do it for me.

My lord, I know our great

father two centuries ago

forbid us to kill

humans for consumption.

And I know that he forbid us

to rob their graves

and mortuaries.

But he said nothing

of feasting on a human

that has taken its own

life in his own residence.

I present to you this offering

of untainted human flesh

on the anniversary

that you saved me

from the archangel Raphael.

- My child, you please me so.

It only took you 10 days to

control your new host body.

This is cause for celebration.

In ancient times we would

have a great feast for days.

I have been trapped in

this form for too long,

my natural urgings

stripped away from me.

I have been hungry and

unsatisfied all these years.

You have done a great

service to your lord.

This pathetic creature was

so easy to put into a trance,

and give up his own free will.

Come my child, join me.

Partake for the first

time in human flesh.

- Nicole.

Nicole, wake up.

- Martin?

- Nicole, I need you

to keep rolling the camera.

- Okay.

- It's very important

that we capture everything.

- Oh my god, Jason!

Jason!

Jason, wake up.

Are you okay?

Jason wake up.

- What happened?

Hold on, hold on, hold on man.

I saw that thing with its

tentacles down your throat.

I thought you were dead!

You saw it too, right?

You saw it too?

There's not a mark on you!

- I don't have an

answer for that.

I think I know why we

can't open the door,

why the cell phones

aren't working.

- Yeah?

Well go on Einstein,

what's going on?

- When our equipment

malfunctioned,

instead of the entity

coming to our dilation,

- oh my god.

- We went to its dilation.

Therefore everything

we perceived,

everything that's happened over

the last several minutes is,

just a fraction of the one

second in the real world for us.

- I only got a b

in algebra, okay?

So you two have fun discussing

whatever you're gonna do,

and I'm gonna break

down that door.

- Jason, stop it's

not going to work!

- Why?

- Because we're in a bubble.

There's a bubble that's

centered somewhere on this bed,

and it goes somewhere out here.

It is continually

expanding and contracting

and we don't know

where that line is.

That's why when you go over

there, you don't hear any sound.

You bang on the door,

there's no sound.

When you walk, you don't

hear your footsteps.

- Okay, so.

- Look.

- What do you see?

- It's the feed outside,

it must be frozen,

the frame is frozen.

- It's not frozen.

That's the time

dilation outside.

That's where we came from.

- Get me out of this place!

- So we're like ghosts?

No one can see or hear us?

Can we reverse

this time dilation?

- Yeah, yeah,

let's just do that,

let's just reverse it, right,

that's what we need to do.

- Everything is,

centered around the bed.

If you go to the bed,

I think that's okay.

If I put in the right

settings, it might work.

- Yeah.

No wait wait, hold on,

the Spectre camera, hold on.

- No!

No, Jason, wait!

Don't cross the line!

- Uh, I'm stuck.

- So sorry.

- Sorry?

Martin, why am I stuck?

It's burning.

- I don't...

- Nicole, I need

you to listen to me.

- I just...

- Nicole.

Nicole, Nicole stop.

I need you to listen to me.

You have to keep filming.

When that thing put its

tentacles in my head,

I saw, I saw,

everything that it saw.

I could feel it,

I could think everything

that it was thinking.

It's very scared and

it's not scared of us,

it's scared of something

else that is out there.

Every time we turn this thing

on Nicole, every time we do,

it sends a signal out

into the universe.

Some kind of beacon, some sign,

and we don't know

what's getting it.

Anything could be getting that.

Whatever is coming our way

is far scarier than anything

we're dealing with right now.

It's very scared and

it's not scared of us,

it's scared of something

else that is out there.

It sends a signal out

into the universe,

some kind of beacon.

Whatever is coming

our way is far scarier

than anything that we're

dealing with right now.

- My name is Amanda Cortney.

I'm of sound mind and

relatively good health.

I've been,

for lack of a better term,

kidnapped.

I remember.

I remember flashes

here and there.

They do things that,

I don't wanna talk about it.

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