- 2 days ago
A group of 10 true crime obsessives are invited to the opening of the newly renovated Cold River Motel, the site of a satanic mass murder; history repeats itself when the guests get stranded and start getting knocked off one by one.
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00:00BELL RINGS
00:25Holy darling
00:27Wake up.
00:32The day we've been waiting for for 30 years.
00:36It's finally here.
00:39Did it.
00:42You and me.
00:45Now there's someone else.
00:48Someone's going to die.
00:51You're killing both those assholes.
00:54We need nine bodies and one of them is still out there.
01:00We need to retrieve it before a pack of coyotes almost get to it.
01:24We need to retrieve it.
01:30We need to retrieve it.
01:34We need to retrieve it.
01:38What's that?
02:08Crazy bastard doing a striptease.
02:15You get hypothermia, body since it's burning up, and you start ripping your clothes off.
02:21Huh.
02:22Bodies are weird.
02:24Yeah.
02:25Sure are.
02:29One thing they don't do generally is explode.
02:38God damn it.
02:45Well, you know one thing for sure.
02:50Blake's not the killer.
02:52How are we gonna take him back to the motel?
02:54Will that sludge even work?
02:57No.
02:58We'll just gather up what we can and make the best of it.
03:01His essence is here even if his body isn't.
03:06Wolves scavenge most of them.
03:09Hey, what are you guys looking at?
03:14We were out looking for Blake and...
03:18How did this happen?
03:22It's that snowblower sitting right there.
03:25We banished him and he was murdered.
03:28Well, hey, he stabbed me and then shoved a gun in our faces and then shot at us all.
03:32Right.
03:33I know, I know.
03:34I'm sorry.
03:35I'm sorry, but it's still awful.
03:36The only thing to focus on now is the fact that someone got to him before the wolves did.
03:47Why did you?
03:49I thought the cold was gonna be enough.
03:51I didn't expect someone to take it further.
03:58Where's Andy?
03:59He's inside making his breakfast.
04:02He...
04:03He wouldn't do this.
04:07I was with Floyd all night.
04:09Were you with Andy?
04:13No.
04:14We slept in our own rooms.
04:18I know you two have gotten close.
04:20Real close.
04:23Watch your six, as they say.
04:29What are we gonna do about Blake?
04:31Can't move him out here or not with all the scavengers around.
04:34No, it isn't right.
04:36Uh, I'm gonna go back to the shed.
04:38Grab a wheelbarrow, a couple shelves, and a tarp.
04:40Then we'll take as much of this poor guy back to the motel as we can.
04:59There's no proof for us.
05:14Ooh.
05:16That does not look good.
05:19Treat about some antibiotics, starting to look infected.
05:21I don't need them.
05:23After tonight, Bafume will see to all our needs.
05:26What?
05:31Barring the unlikely event of some unknown person out there,
05:35one of those two is our killer.
05:39And as long as they're allowed to roam free,
05:43the ceremony is in danger.
05:47There's an easy fix.
05:50Let me go kill them.
05:52Kill them both.
05:53We need one alive for the invocation.
05:57Okay.
05:58I'll go chop off Andy's head and we'll bleed Paige out at midnight.
06:03Hey, trust me.
06:05I'd rather the killer be Paige.
06:08The killer, whether it's Andy or Paige,
06:10is not someone to be trifled with.
06:15Agreed.
06:16So, what do we do?
06:20We bring one of them over to our side.
06:23Which one?
06:26Paige.
06:27She'll make a better offering to Baphomet,
06:30and one could argue that she's been preparing her whole life to be that.
06:35And how do we make her see the light?
06:37By giving her irrefutable proof that Andy is a Satan-worshipping psychopath.
06:52Sorry, I shouldn't have just walked in.
07:01It's okay, it's okay.
07:03I was outside with Floyd and Shirley,
07:04and we found Blake.
07:06Oh, I guess we knew the cold would get him.
07:10It wasn't the cold.
07:11He was killed.
07:12Left in pieces.
07:14I'm not sure I'll ever get all of his blood off.
07:17Hey, you should have gotten me.
07:21It's not really anything you or anyone else could have done.
07:25Well, how did he...
07:27Sorry, if it's too hard, you don't have to tell me.
07:30Snowblower.
07:31It's not funny in the slightest, it's just...
07:40Oh, shh, it's okay.
07:43You're in shock, but that's all.
07:45The latest wave of slashers hidden in the speciousness of elevated horror,
07:51the glut of salacious true crime podcasts and docu-tramas,
07:54the alleged art-film credibility of horror extremism,
07:58and the bald-faced opportunism of gross-out horror as social media sanctioned dare.
08:04What becomes painfully clear is that hoary but truthful trope of the last 70 years.
08:11Consumers are being desensitized to violence and its awful and lasting consequences.
08:27I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by your returning again and again
08:32to the facile point that violent entertainment desensitizes us
08:36from the Romans paying to see Christians ripped apart by lions
08:40to the U.S. public executions up to the 1930s.
08:45The constancy of these acts has guaranteed the kind of simple-minded drudgery
08:49to be found in your thesis.
08:51If you'd gone deeper into your topic,
08:58if you'd thought about what drives this hunger for an entertainment,
09:02perhaps even you would have stumbled onto some new avenues of interrogation.
09:07The movies that you cite, which I had to endure in order to adjudicate your thesis defense,
09:13are unequivocal trash, full of two-dimensional characters,
09:19so grotesque and idiotic, one would hazard they deserve to die.
09:24Will you be advocating for the real-world suffering of Wile E. Coyote next?
09:29This field has been barely stoned.
09:30No, no, no, no, no.
09:31Turning your gaze to the simplistic and righteous gutter
09:35that you pretend to critique does nothing
09:37but reveal your inane and very questionable obsession
09:41with that very gutter.
09:44And I'm afraid
09:46the gutter
09:48is where your thesis belongs.
09:55I regret to inform you
09:57that you have failed your Ph.D. defense.
10:01I can't approve it.
10:03And I know no one else will.
10:07You might find a lower-tier college or night school
10:12that will employ you
10:13should you feel compelled to teach,
10:15but a full professorship here
10:16is not in the cards.
10:37So, should I put this all in the dishwasher,
10:49or really, what's the point?
10:53You can just put it over there.
10:53I'll take care of them.
10:55No, no, I can clean them off.
10:57I just, um, I'm just, I don't know.
11:01I don't know what I am.
11:03Something's on your mind, huh?
11:09Everything's on your mind.
11:11You're employed in me, too,
11:12but you seem especially perturbed.
11:17Is everything okay with Andy?
11:21If you ain't feeling safe,
11:23you can just stick with us.
11:24You suspect Andy.
11:29Andy suspects you.
11:30I suspect everyone.
11:32And of course I do.
11:34I don't actually know who any of you truly are.
11:38Right back at you, sister.
11:40Of course, and that's a problem,
11:42because until the cops or whoever
11:44get here and save us,
11:46this isn't over.
11:48We're all in danger.
11:49We're all in danger.
11:51Okay.
11:52Okay, let's...
11:53Let's think this through logically.
11:57You were out in the woods,
11:59with us,
12:00alone,
12:02two against one.
12:04If we were the killers,
12:06why wouldn't we have taken advantage of that?
12:14Do you want to go through our stuff?
12:18Won't take you very long,
12:19because most of it burned up in that RV.
12:21As long as we can go through yours,
12:24and Andy's, too,
12:26it's only fair.
12:27I can't make that decision for him.
12:29No.
12:30Good news is you won't have to,
12:32because if we pass this test,
12:37that'll be the writing on the wall.
12:41What do you say?
12:42Okay.
12:49What do you say?
13:10What do you say?
13:11No.
13:12He unpacked everything.
13:35What's this?
13:36Oh, no, it's just a vape.
13:38This ship will kill you.
13:39I gave up smoking when my agent told me you could see it on my teeth, and then the crow's
13:45feet around my eyes.
13:46That's a crappy thing to say, even though it was ultimately for the best.
13:52Found something.
13:55Looks pretty serious.
13:58He's an academic.
13:59It's probably something he's studying.
14:02Okay.
14:04If this is what he's studying, then we're in a lot of trouble.
14:06The blood of a live virgin holds special power because defiling a pure woman weakens God.
14:13Insane and misogynistic.
14:16Oh, and an entire chapter on how to disembowel a cat while still alive.
14:20Okay.
14:21I get you're freaked out.
14:23We found this in his dresser, Floyd.
14:25I know, but if he hears us, then you'll know that we know.
14:28And we need the element of surprise here, because as normal as that guy pretends to be, he's
14:33one sick puppy.
14:33Okay, what do we do?
14:36I don't know, any spells in there on how to take out a psycho?
14:38Okay, no one's taking out anyone, okay?
14:40Honey, we have to do something about this threat.
14:43You were on the invite list.
14:44We weren't.
14:44So you're going to be part of whatever twisted plan he's been enacting.
14:48But Andy and I are close.
14:50We made a real connection.
14:52It means nothing.
14:53Him and Kawaiian were close, and then he painted his bedroom walls with that guy's blood.
14:57I know.
14:57Sick son of a bitch has been playing us all.
14:59Okay, okay.
15:01Do you think the three of us could take him?
15:05Overpower him?
15:06Lock him up?
15:07Maybe.
15:09Maybe?
15:10If he wasn't prepared for it.
15:11But you look at what he's done to some of those big guys.
15:13Wait.
15:14Wait.
15:14Wait.
15:15Portia and Ruby, they took something for sleep.
15:20Knocked them out.
15:21The night he ripped out Portia's heart.
15:23Okay, Ruby said they both popped sleeping pills.
15:26Safe.
15:28Clean.
15:30Leaves them for the cops to sort out.
15:36Okay.
15:37It's a good plan.
15:39Who's going to grab the pills?
15:41Okay.
15:41I'll go.
15:42And if Andy finds me, I'll tell him that I was just looking for rainproof clothes for the walk.
15:47Sure.
15:49Yeah.
15:49Be careful.
15:50Promise?
15:51Yeah.
15:51Okay.
15:56You're a genius.
16:07What?
16:08What's wrong?
16:10Nothing.
16:10I just hope we're taking out the right one.
16:14Cheryl, there's no way that charming gal is a killer.
16:18That charming gal is an actor.
16:21Late night shoots.
16:40These save my life.
16:42Ginger, honey, cardamom, and turmeric.
16:45Tastes better than it sounds.
16:47And it really packs a punch.
16:49Well, they got a thermos around here.
16:52Maybe we can take some with us for the hike.
16:54It's a great idea.
16:56I'll make some more.
17:01Everything okay?
17:04This weekend has been absolutely...
17:09Oh, terrible isn't even the word.
17:11But even at its worst, I am so thankful for the fact that I wasn't going through this alone.
17:20It's a friendship.
17:22It's a friendship.
17:23Look, if I met Lloyd and Shirley in the street, I'd think they're just a normal, middle-aged couple.
17:37Exceedingly normal.
17:40But maybe that's what they want you to think, to hide who they really are.
17:43And who's that?
17:47I don't know.
17:48But this place, it's like a shrine to crazy people.
17:53Maybe they heard about this weekend, and then they decided to come up here to try and make a name for themselves.
18:03That just sounds so convenient.
18:06Exactly.
18:10Whoa.
18:10Whoa.
18:10Whoa.
18:18You took their side.
18:26Andy, you got a suit in our point of view.
18:29Oh.
18:31What did you give me?
18:32Don't worry, it's just sleeping pills.
18:35You'll sleep for a while, and hopefully by the time you wake up, the cops will be here.
18:38I'm not the killer.
18:40How do I know that?
18:41Mature.
18:42Because they are.
18:45They've been doing this, Paige.
18:47And you, you, alone, with them, is danger.
19:17Can we just leave him untied and secure the door?
19:20Kind of defeats the purpose.
19:22Honey, I promise.
19:24We're not doing anything that will harm him.
19:25We're just keeping him safe.
19:27Safe for us.
19:28Safe for himself.
19:30You good?
19:31All good.
19:33I promise you, Paige.
19:37Nothing bad about this.
19:38So, um, what now?
19:44Now?
19:45We wait.
19:47Storm's over.
19:48They'll be clearing the roads pretty soon.
19:50Once the internet's connected, we contact the cops and get them to set this all right.
19:55And then, for the first time this weekend, we can breathe easy.
20:04I know.
20:05It just, um, it just feels really wrong.
20:08It feels really wrong.
20:10It's okay.
20:11It's okay, baby girl.
20:14You go on and let it all out.
20:17Julie's here to take care of you.
20:22Listen.
20:24This will all be over soon enough.
20:27Yeah?
20:28Come on.
20:31Why don't you go and whip up some lunch?
20:36Sure thing.
20:39Wait, you know what I think will feel good?
20:42A hot bath.
20:43I had a soak, and I feel like a completely different person.
20:48Yeah?
20:49So why don't I go ahead and draw you something, and then you can just...
20:51chew now.
20:53I'll turn off.
20:55Sound good?
20:56Yeah.
21:04Go on.
21:06Let me just sit there on the bed.
21:08Okay.
21:10Yeah.
21:13You know, I saw some brochures at the front desk advertising their spa services.
21:21Why don't I go pick you up one of their mudscrubs?
21:24Really help you relax.
21:27Sound good?
21:28Honestly, it sounds amazing.
21:30You see?
21:31I feel better already just knowing I'm going to help you.
21:35And you deserve it.
21:37So relax, and let all that tension just melt away.
21:44Okay.
21:45Hm.
21:46Hm.
22:06Hmm.
22:07Oh my God.
22:17Oh my God.
22:21Oh my God.
22:24Oh my God.
22:299-1-1.
22:379-1-1.
23:07I think you should tighten that circle a touch.
23:13Oh yeah? Where's that?
23:17Oh.
23:19Peach was a little bit shorter than Caitlyn was.
23:29I guess you're right.
23:37A few hours.
23:54A portal to hell will be open.
23:56And Vafame will be unleashed unto the world.
24:02And you and I will be fornicated by Bessai for all eternity.
24:14Come on.
24:15Patience, my love.
24:27My true occult bookstore.
24:45A true occult bookstore.
24:59Okay, there's Andy's book.
25:04Let's see how serious this is.
25:06How's my spa, babe?
25:35I was thinking maybe I'm done.
25:39Will you stop denying yourself life's pleasures?
25:44Like this scrub says that the pumice is sourced from the...
25:52Vestmánér region of Iceland.
26:05Ah!
26:14Ah!
26:17Ahhh!
26:19Ugh!
26:21oh you're gonna have to relax you're so tense of course you've been to hell and
26:42back so it's perfectly understandable we're all okay now all of us and now I'm gonna touch some
26:55pressure points on your forehead is that okay
27:12that feel better now we'll just let all that stress and anxiety down the drain
27:27hold your nose oh honey honey there's nothing to be afraid of anymore we have that nasty man
27:39walk away
27:40I've set an eye a divina a diva
28:09what have you been looking at
28:11you little bitch
28:31go to hell
28:35you fucking
28:37you little bitch
28:44go to hell
28:46you little bitch
28:48you little bitch
28:58You fucking bitch!
29:21Fuck you!
29:23Let the fuck off of me!
29:28Fuck you!
29:29Fuck you!
29:30Fuck you!
29:31Fuck you!
29:58Fuck you!
30:20No!
30:21No!
30:22No!
30:23No!
30:50No!
31:20No!
31:28Time to begin.
31:29No!
31:30No!
31:31No!
31:32No!
31:33No!
31:34No!
31:35No!
31:36No!
31:37No!
31:38No!
31:39No!
31:40No!
31:41No!
31:42No!
31:43No!
31:44No!
31:45No!
31:46No!
31:47No!
31:48No!
31:49I'm so sorry.
31:50Was it okay?
31:51You drugged me!
31:52Just please keep your voice down.
31:53Lloyd and Shirley are the killers, okay?
31:55And it wasn't my plan.
31:56They tricked me.
31:57They planted all this satanic stuff in your room.
31:58They fell for it.
31:59And I'm sorry.
32:00No!
32:01No!
32:02Fuck them!
32:03No!
32:04They tricked all of us.
32:05Okay?
32:06We just have to-
32:07Listen to me.
32:08Listen.
32:09Shirley is dead.
32:10Okay?
32:11Yeah.
32:12They were going to sacrifice me tonight.
32:13And you too.
32:14They need a knight of us.
32:15And then she saw my phone and she attacked me.
32:16Yeah.
32:17But we've all had phones.
32:18I know.
32:19I know.
32:20But mine dinged.
32:21I got a bunch of messages.
32:22The Wi-Fi is back.
32:23I don't know how.
32:24Maybe Floyd and Shirley must've disabled it.
32:25But then why would they have turned it back on?
32:26Storms can mess with satellite signals.
32:27Look, it doesn't matter. All that matters is we can call the cops.
32:29I did. I did call them. I called 911.
32:31I called them. Yeah.
32:33That's great. That's great.
32:35Okay. Now, they said they might take a while.
32:39But we did some stuping on everyone.
32:43And you're good, obviously, but they are full-blown blood called Satanists.
32:47And since that's the case, they might have been the ones who killed everyone 30 years ago.
32:52Yeah, they would have been their 20s. That makes perfect sense.
32:55And if they're not, they're definitely the ones doing it now.
32:58But we have to get out of here. We have to go before Floyd finds Shirley, okay?
33:03Because when he knows, it was bad. It was bad.
33:19Girls, it's just me.
33:20Don't worry. I'm not going to come in.
33:30But you guys, you should see this sky.
33:36It's a beaut.
33:44You guys hear me?
33:45You guys hear me?
34:15I forgot.
34:16I don't want to fight him.
34:17Me neither.
34:18But if we're going to fight him, it's better to do it here.
34:21He's a hunter. He's used to the outdoors. We're not.
34:23Two against one, right?
34:25Yeah.
34:25And we've got to use that. Circle him. Keep him off balance.
34:29Okay.
34:30Hey.
34:31You took on Shirley by yourself.
34:33This is nothing.
34:34I'm going to risk you till I'm fine.
34:46Okay.
34:47Let's do this.
34:48You're going to suffer all night.
35:13You murderous bitch.
35:20I didn't want to believe it.
35:22Kelly was right about you all along.
35:24I thought it was you killing everyone, but nah-ah.
35:26It was this secret.
35:27Wait, you're the killer?
35:28It's the enormous fight.
35:30Ah!
35:32Of course you didn't know, Professor Andy.
35:35Because you couldn't even sniff out the originals.
35:37And I've got to say, this one puts us both to shame.
35:40He's lying. They killed everyone.
35:41She was all ready to drug you at the first chance.
35:44Oh, look at her.
35:46Look at her hold that knife.
35:48She wanted to jump at the chance.
35:51She wanted to drug you.
35:52You've been a fucking liar since you got here.
35:58You've got to admit, she's a damn sight better than you.
36:01You know, I can't believe a nerd like you could do anything.
36:05Run on them! You're gonna die!
36:17Fuck!
36:18Oh my... oh my...
36:18Oh! Oh! Oh!
36:20Jeez.
36:21Oh my God.
36:31Ride where I want you.
36:35It's like you can't escape it. It's like you're fated to be here.
36:42What is all this?
36:45The final steps of the ritual. At the height of the moon, hell upon us.
36:52And you, my dear, will be the last gush of blood before the gates start sluicing.
37:00After I get rid of your pathetic lamp here.
37:15Grab it! Grab it!
37:30Have a big day.
37:39That looks terrific.
37:42Captain.
37:47I am not again.
38:17I am not again.
38:27For me be praised.
38:33What are you smelling about?
38:39Take these last offings of a dying heart.
38:44The blood of my soul.
38:46What does it mean?
38:48To open the gates of hell.
38:51What?
38:53That's not true.
38:54There are no demons.
38:55There's no summoning.
38:56I'm not waiting to find out.
38:58Grab it.
38:59No.
39:00No.
39:01No.
39:02No.
39:03No.
39:04No.
39:05No.
39:06No.
39:07No.
39:08No.
39:09No.
39:10No.
39:11As long as this piece of garbage is alive, he's still a threat.
39:28If Blake taught me anything, it's that you need to kill them all the way.
39:41What, your wife's on me?
39:51I'm with potential.
40:11...
40:15...
40:17...
40:21...
40:26...
40:32...
40:33I felt so good for the first time since I got here.
41:03You're not afraid?
41:05Yeah.
41:06Me neither.
41:08Help will get here soon, right?
41:12Yeah.
41:13A 911 operator I spoke to said they're sending someone as soon as they can.
41:18Maybe before we wake up.
41:22And I can't believe it.
41:25That they did it both times?
41:29That it's come full circle.
41:32I killed the two bastards that killed Caitlin Ridgely.
41:39I was able to hear them.
41:41That it's a very difficult situation.
41:46I was able to hear them.
41:48I'm sorry.
41:50I have to hear them.
41:51I did not hear them.
41:52I was able to hear them.
41:54What the hell is that?
42:24What the hell is that?
42:54You hear that, right?
43:24Are you Andy Lecavalier?
43:45Hey, that's me.
43:46We're so glad to see you.
43:48Okay, so what happened?
43:50Oh, um, we...
43:51A group of us, we all were invited here three days ago to celebrate the opening of the cold river.
43:58Never heard anything like this.
44:22Yes, you have.
44:25Thirty years ago.
44:28I bet some of the dry blood on that mask will be from the original victims.
44:31You sure this older couple, Floyd and Shirley?
44:34Yeah, Floyd and Shirley.
44:35Are you sure that they killed everybody?
44:37Yeah.
44:38Every single person who is dead in there.
44:40So there's no chance they might have been working with someone out in the woods?
44:45No.
44:49I'm sorry.
44:50I know you two have been through a lot.
44:52We gotta ask.
44:54No.
44:54No, it was all them.
44:56No one else.
44:57Can you two stay right here?
45:02No.
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