Director: Michael Morris Country: United States Duration: 71’ Shooting Gauge: HD Year of Production: 2010
On her morning jog, Alena stops to help a disoriented jogger by the side of the road. She soon finds herself the victim of a violent attack up in the cover of the mountain trails. At the very last second, she is rescued by a mysterious presence that pulls her attacker into an abandoned well. Shell-shocked, Alena tries to get her ex-boyfriend Bryan to come and look at the well, but he too is attacked and pulled into the well. She next entreats a local city detective, Umbrago, to come and investigate but he is sceptical…until he gets a report from a different source about a similar attack.
During his fruitless investigation into the well, Alena begins to think she is losing her mind and goes to see a therapist, Dr. Lardner. Unfortunately, her therapist has lascivious designs of his own, soon cornering her at her house. Only when her ex-boyfriend Bryan's current girlfriend Bo and her brother come looking for her is Alena rescued from the clutches of Dr. Lardner. Her only recourse is to bring the three of them up to the abandoned well to show them what happened to Bryan. Det. Umbrago intervenes just before anything else happens. Except that Dr. Lardner has disappeared. Yet another attack by the creature below?
Before answering, Alena escapes further up into the hills. Umbrago corners and befriends her, or so he thinks. Alena clobbers him on the back of the head and escapes. She returns alone to the abandoned well and pleads for an answer, or at least an end to her torment. During a fit of hysteria, she slips and falls into the well.
In the innermost reaches of darkness, Alena finds that there is something...or someone lurking in the well with her. A creature with a ghoulish mask confronts her in a way she seems to recognize. The creature takes his mask off and reveals himself to be a priest. Alena abruptly wakes up in her own bed, recovering from a nightmare. But the nightmare isn't over.
