"Something." "[SHUSHING]" "[SCREAMS]" "[GEORGE]:" "I know that's kind of strange but, my grandmother's always been my best friend." "Seriously." "She's seen hard times." "Just after grandma had triplets, they tell me my grandfather axed himself in the head while chopping wood." "They must think I was born yesterday." "Uncle Lan calls it the "axe-cident"." "Pun intended." "Mom says he just uses humor to hide his real feelings." "I don't know." "It must have been pretty tough for them." "There's a lot of stories they don't tell me, but" "I can feel them." "They're in the dirt that I walk on when I visit this place." "Anyway," "I'll never forget all the things grandma tried to pass on to me." "Even the one she didn't mean to." "[CHILDREN LAUGHING]" "Come on!" "Harder!" "Harder, man!" "[GRANDMA]:" "It's hard being an outsider." "And you and me have come from a long line of outsiders." "People like to prey on those who are weak." "[SIGHS]" "But you have to remember something." "It's not because we are weak." "It's because we are strong." "My grandma taught me that." "What's this?" "A warning." "It means if anyone who lacks courage steps foot on her grave, she'll reach out and strike them dead." "But she was just kidding, right?" "See for yourself." "[BREATHING HARD]" " [SNAKE HISSES]" " Whoa!" "Don't move!" "If you move, she'll strike." "You have to be brave." "You have to stand up." "Here." "Look her in the eye and play." "What?" "Do it!" "[PLAYS VIOLIN]" "She seems to approve." "If you can stand up to a beast, you can stand up to a bully." " [JIM]:" "Oh!" " [WOMAN]:" "Wow!" " [WOMAN 1]:" "Mama!" " [WOMAN 2]:" "Mama!" " [LAUGHING]" " Wow!" "[JIM]:" "Smells good!" "What is it, mama?" "[MUTTERING UNINTELLIGIBLY]" "[GRANDMA]:" "Get out of my house!" "Fuck!" "What?" "What happened?" "Mercy cut me." "Don't go in there!" "[GRANDMA CONTINUES YELLING]" "[DEMONICALLY] Get out!" "Georgie?" "Georgie!" "I tried everything, Georgie." "I can't cure myself." "You'll be okay." "The doctors are coming." "They don't know... anything." "All I ever wanted was a baby." "Georgie." "He's coming." "You got to get out of here." " What?" " It's for your own good." " Georgie." " I'm not going anywhere!" "I can protect you, grandma!" "I love you." "I love you, too." "More than anything." "But... you can't save me." "George!" "You talked to her?" "You need to come now." " No!" " Come now!" "George!" "He's coming!" "He's coming!" "Did you hear what I said?" "Grandma had a stroke?" "Is she dead?" "Mom said stroke." "Stroke doesn't mean dead." "Might as well be." "Ow, you moron!" "Guys!" "Stop it!" "She's not dead." "But she's in pretty bad shape." "The idiots at the nursing home say they won't take care of her anymore." "Why?" "There's been, um, problems." "What kind of problems?" "[SIGHS]" "So she's going to live with you now, huh?" "I wish." "We're going to stay at grandma's place for a while." "Mom says we'll take care of her there." "What's wrong with your house?" "She wants to die in hers, huh?" "You haven't seen her since she got sick." "I should have." "It's not your fault, George." "You care too much." "No." "You do." "That's why I watch over you." " Georgie, look, you must-- - [MAN]:" "George!" "Who are you talking to?" "The girl next door." " The girl next" " Or God." "Maybe." "Well, either way." "You're supposed to be in class." "No, I don't." "I'm home for the week." "School policy, George." "You still have to go." "What?" "Are you going to drag me in?" "[GEORGE]:" "I'm nothing like my brother." "He hates going to grandma's." "But... he's kinda weird." "He's 15 and only cares about his cooking and being a chef one day but, at least he has direction." "Maybe I'm the weird one." "Can't you just use ketchup like a normal person?" "I'm not a normal person." "I'm a super taster." "A what?" "Dr Franklin said I have a third more taste buds than most people." "I'm not sure your IQ points." "Guys!" "Oh, for god's sakes!" "This blows." "Why are we stuck taking care of grandma anyway?" " Uncle Lan was closer." " He works." "And you don't?" "What about aunt Jinny?" "You got to get her out of the nut house first." "It's a hospital!" "I've got to get a healthier family." "Why do you have to be such a jerk?" "Aren't you just a little sad?" "I mean, it's the last time you're gonna see grandma." "Oh, it doesn't look... so bad." "[COUGHS]" "[BUDDY]:" "We should have stayed in a hotel." "[GEORGE]:" "God." "Wa-Watch it!" "Grandma's favorite lamp." "Oh, no." "Not grandma's favorite lamp." "[HOUSE CREAKS]" "Yeah, see?" "Now you get the haints angry." "That's just the house settling down." "The house has been here for 150 years." "Don't you think it's already settled?" "Don't try to freak me out!" "I don't have to." "You know what happened here." "Grandma was sitting there." "Holding mom." "Grandpa Frank, he was standing here, holding an axe" "Bite me, George!" "Everyone knows it was an accident." "How can you cut yourself in half by accident, you moron." "I'm sure it happens all the time." "Maybe he like, tripped." "And..." "Who cares, anyways?" "You do." "You think he's still here." "Can't you see him, walking this room?" "Rusty old axe in his hand?" "[IMITATES AXE HITTING HEAD]" "Tchuk!" " Tchuk!" " Just give it a rest, okay?" "Tchuk!" "Tchuk!" "What happens when he runs out of head?" "Who's he going to turn his axe on then?" " Turn the light on." " Tchuk!" " Tchuk!" " I'm warning you!" "Tchuk!" "You wouldn't hear him coming." "The last thing you'd smell is his whisky and his hot, stale breath on your neck." "George!" " And then, tchuk!" " Stop!" " Tchuk!" " Stop!" "Tchuk!" " [LAUGHING]" " What's going on?" "What's going on?" "Hey!" "Buddy, Basil." "Come on!" "[JIM] Basil, come on!" "[BUDDY] I though you were a ghost." "I ought to call the cops on you, Jim." "The way you scared my boys." "Me?" "Hell, Reb." "You should have seen him going at it." "This boy's gotten heavy too." "I think I threw my back out." "Buddy's cooking." "How's photography, Mr. Swann?" "Selling any photos?" "Uh, well some folks prefer my wife's paintings, but" "I do sell enough to afford the occasional libation." " Libation?" " He means getting plastered." "George!" "Boy's got a mouth and a vocabulary." "Speaking of which, look what I got for you." "A little education." "Sweet!" "Isn't that a little scary for him?" "Oh, hell no." "Just about a guy trying to kill his entire family." "My daddy did it all the time." "Is there anything for me?" "Damn, did I forget you?" "Gift card to my cousin's grocery." "You can bobby-flay yourself to death." "Thank you." "Anything um, left for me?" "You..." "Just my undying love and the pleasure of my company." "I think your wife might have have something to say about that." "[SIMULTANEOUSLY] I wouldn't tell!" "Well, I just figured you, you know, would need some help" " getting the house ready." " Oh, you don't have to do that." " No, no." " Oh." "Come on, your momma practically raised me." "I owe her big." "And it's a pretty decent excuse for me to... come visit." "[JIM] You'd better enjoy the [INDISTINCT]" "[REBECCA LAUGHING]" "Mom's 15 again." "She should have married him." "She would have had to move back here." "Yeah, so?" "Mom loves Zona (?" ")" "Not as much as she hates this place." "[LOW RUMBLING SOUND]" "Mom?" "[LOW RUMBLING SOUND]" "[RUMBLING SOUND CONTINUES]" "[MOM] Hey, George." "You ready?" "Let's go get grandma." "[UNCLE LAN] Aw, shit!" "Family reunion." "Hey, Uncle Lan." "Hey, Uncle Lan." "Jesus, you boys got tall." "You got a little wide." "[SCOFFS] Yeah, and you started a little early." "It's my day off, Bec." "In fact, I was just down in Coopersville." "I got you guys a special present, okay?" "So you'll always have something to remember your special trip to see your grandma." "Here you go." "That was funny, alright?" "I'm trying to lighten the mood." "You should try humor." "This is an advertisement for dying young." "Welcome." "Grandma's room's right there, boys." "So I signed the discharge papers." "I thought that might help." "Help would be taking her in yourself, Lan." "No, that would not be." "That would be... martyrdom." "What is this?" "That's her room." "You told me she had a private room." "She did." "At first." "Lanning!" "I sent you thousands of dollars." "And it... got spent." "Medimucil tax." "Quality oatmeal, you know." "We had to get a few roommates to defray the costs." "How many?" "I don't know." "Four." "Five." "[SOFTLY] Four or..." "Six." "Six?" "[SOFTLY] Get over here." "[LOUDLY] Let's go!" "He said you'd come to get me." " Keep her away from me." " What?" "Get me away." " [OLD MAN] Jesus help me." " What's going on?" "This guy, he tried to grab George." "What?" "She's here, honey." "Geeze." "[UNCLE LAN] Sorry, George." "She's like this most of the time." "Grandma?" "You carry that thing everywhere?" "Just when I'm with your grandma." "Why?" "Ask her roommates." "Alright, so you got her drugs, special pillow," "For god's sakes, don't give her another pillow." "and then you've got these." "[BUDDY] Wait." "We have to change her diapers?" "Yeah, she's pretty regular." "I-Is she ever lucid?" "Yeah, for... a few minutes of the day." "Mostly she's like an infant." "Gurgles." "Drools." "The most important thing is you have to remember to give her her shots when she's awake." "Chlorpromazine?" "Isn't that for mental patients?" "It helps keep her... friendly." "You just got to dilute it with uh, saline solution and you'll be fine." "Now your brother said that you had medical training, correct?" "In the army." "Great!" "That's good for me." "Wait, wait, wait." "Um..." "Do you think maybe you could stick around for a couple of days and make sure that we're doing everything right?" "Uh..." "I'll pay you double what you're making now." "[LAUGHS]" "What do you...?" "Take care." "[GRANDMA COUGHING]" "Ugh!" "I'm going with Wendall." "You're not going anywhere." "What?" "You think just because she's old, we're going to dump her in the street?" "We're a family." "One day," "I'm going to be on that bed." "And you'll be taking care of me." " That's up to medicare." " Ugh, Buddy." "Come here." "Come here!" "Look, I know this is hard... but we're in this together, okay?" "And we're going to face this with love and dignity." " Hold her down!" " I'm trying!" "I can't get a weight!" "Sit on her feet then!" "Just hold the arm." "Hold the arm!" "Hold her arm down." "[YELLING AND MUTTERING UNINTELLIGIBLY]" "[SOBBING]" "[GRANDMA SCREAMS OUT UNINTELLIGIBLY]" "What are you doing?" "Didn't you see that?" "Hmm..." "No, it's in her handwriting." "Yes, of course I'm sure." "Alright, well, thank you." "Your aunt Jinny's been in isolation for the last month." "They don't know how she sent it." "Okay, well what does it mean?" "Hastur's" "[SOFTLY] Don't say that." "Why?" "Who's Hastur?" "Oh, come on!" "Come on!" "No, it's just a stupid old name that gets grandma all worked up." "I quit!" "[SIGHS]" "She doesn't like that baby food crap." "She wants real food." "She will get what the doctor ordered." "Look, mom." "She doesn't like it." "Look." "Mama." "So, here's your baby back." "And there is the tekamaki." "It's sushi." "My dad fedexed me the fish from New York." "It's a little undercooked, son." "That's because it's sushi." "Why don't we go put it on the grill?" "See, Mercy?" "It's rosemary, your favorite." "Let her smell it, Henriette." "Mercy?" "He just wanted to see how you were." " Wow!" " Yeah, I took that" " It's so good." " a couple of years ago." " Beautiful." " I was like the uh, the light there right?" "It's gorgeous." "Oh, my goodness." "Yeah?" "Those yours?" "Yeah, Charlotte and I started our new catalog." "Look." "Wow." " [REBECCA] Jesus." " [JIM] Mm-hmm." "My darling wife painted that one." "Isn't she awesome?" "That's a death wolf." "[GEORGE] A death wolf?" "Yeah, it's an old hill-folk legend." "You haven't heard of it?" "No, we don't believe in that haint stuff." "Death wolf's not a ghost, honey." "No, they say that she walks the border between this life and the next, hunting for lost souls." "If she catches you, she will eat you and shit you out in hell." "Nice." "My wife's the devil worshiper in the family." "Really?" "'Cause I'm gonna get five grand for that painting." "George, could you get some lemonade from the cellar?" " Yeah." "Yeah, sure." " Thanks." "You show your grandma this?" " What?" " Yes or no, boy." "She seen it?" "No!" "Alright, come with me." "Please, you smell like whisky." "You ever drink alcohol, George?" "No." "Yeah, I didn't think so." "I was about your age when I started drinking." "I'm not kidding." "You think I'm a class A butthole, don't you?" "[LAUGHS] It's alright!" "I don't hold it against you, George." "It's most folks' opinion." "But you're the closest thing I have to a son, so I want you to listen to me now, okay?" "Hey!" "You listen, alright?" "Now, what did my sister tell you about your grandmother?" "Hmm?" "She say she's... a good mama?" "Made us lemon cake?" "Put band aids on our booboos, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Well, that's her story." "'Cause your mama ran off when she joined the army when she was 18." "Yeah, she never saw how awful they got." "How awful what got?" "Grandma's bad spells." "She had little ones when we were young kids." "One minute, she'd just be all... kisses and whispers." "And then she'd turn on you like a rattlesnake." "And your mama was really strong." "Like you, you know." "She could handle her." "But when she left, it was just me and Jinny." "She sat us down and she says," ""Ain't no more of my kids leaving me." "Come hell or high water."" "Jinny was fine with it at first." "You know, she was the most liked to grandma." "Things got complicated." "Let me show you something." "There's your aunt Jinny with her boyfriend Terry Clay." "They were so in love." "It was beautiful." "Your grandma didn't like it." "She said, "There's no way in hell" "I'm letting you go, Jinny."" "But Jinny stood up to her." "Said, "I'm moving out." "I'm getting married." "I love this man."" "Wh-What'd grandma say?" ""Enjoy your honeymoon."" "Yeah, I didn't think much about it." "'Til they went camping near Holly River." "Jinny said they'd be gone two days." "A week later, there were injuries around them." "Papers called it a bear attack." "What was left of Terry, you could have fit in a shoe box." "And your aunt Jinny, they found her hiding up in the tree." "And she screamed." "She screamed all the way to the goddamn nuthouse, George." "Now, let me ask you something." "What kind of a bear tears apart half the forest and doesn't leave one goddamn track?" "I don't know." "You know, I never wanted to stay in this shithole town, but that old bitch" "No, uncle Lan, you can't possibly think that" " grandma could have anything" " Boy!" "Listen to me!" "This is a warning." "Your aunt Jinny is just like your grandma." "She sees things." "None of us are going to rest easy 'til that old fucking bitch is in the ground." " You got it?" " Yeah, I got it." "Grandma, you ever hurt anyone?" "How about some chocolate?" "I know you're not supposed to have any, but I snuck some." "Will you eat it for me?" "Eat it for mom?" "[SIGHS]" "For Hastur?" "Hastur." "Hastur." "[IMAGINARY LANGUAGE] Beenum." "Mastur." "Enn siké." "Ha cis see." "Ah nini see." "Ah penni." "Ja koon ah!" "Grandma?" "Can't wait to get out of this house." "Why?" "Just creepy." "It's different, you know." "How it used to be." "Mom tell you what happened today?" "No." "What happened?" "I was feeding grandma and" "then she started talking to me." "It was gibberish." "No, it-it sounded like a real language." "Like, middle eastern or-or something." "You think grandma's part Arab?" "Maybe I should make couscous." "This isn't a joke!" "She was herself, Buddy." "Maybe that Chlorpromazine stuff is making her sick." "Are you a doctor?" " No..." " Then stay out of it." "You're just going to make things worse." " But, what if" " No ifs." "I'm telling you, as your brother, leave it alone." "Oh, you're up." "Where'd you get that?" "Right." "Our little secret." "You want your medicine?" "No, grandma-grandma." "I can't throw it out." "I know." "I don't like it either but it's for your own good." "Stop!" "No." "Grandma, stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop, grandma!" "Grandma!" "Stop!" "Stop." " Stop." " [GRANDMA CRYING]" "Help me." "[REBECCA]:" "Come on, George." "You ready to go?" "There you go, mama." "Babysitter's here." "[REBECCA]:" "It's about time." "Why do I have to go shopping?" "My old clothe's just fine." "Yeah, I can smell it from here." "We will be back in a couple of hours." "Try not to burn the place down." "Yes, mom." "Come on, let's just have a look." "Uh, hey, mom." "Can I catch up with you?" "There's something I want to check out at the bookstore." "Alright, just, don't be too long." "Okay." "So, what brings you around here?" "My grandma's been my best friend my whole life." "Now... people are telling me things." "So, why come to me?" "I saw you at her house." "That's your job, isn't it?" "Tell folks what to believe?" "No one wants to believe bad things about the people they love, son." "You think Abel wanted to believe Cain was a murderer?" "So, you're saying love's a bad thing?" "No." "I'm saying people do more evil in the name of love than anything else." "If God cannot stand against the Abyss, how can we?" "This was your grandma's bible." "You guys were friends?" "Best friends." "She and your grandpa helped me build this church." "She was the most... christian woman I've ever met." "What happened?" "She loved something too much:" "children." "She wanted them more than anything." "But the good lord decided not to give her any." "[SCREAMING]" "[CRYING]" "Mercy!" "A miscarriage." "Just like the others." "I'm sorry, Frank." "But she ain't ever gonna be a mother." "[PRIEST]:" "Now, you have to understand this was a woman who served God every day of her life." "She could not fathom why he had deserted her." "So in time, she decided to look elsewhere." "Wh-what do you mean?" "I don't hold these local superstitions, but there have been times when I've looked out at those mountains and I know there's something up there staring back." "Something old and mean." "[PRIEST]:" "Folks say that if God won't help, what's up there will welcome you with open arms." "Though, all I know is your grandmother climbed up into those rocks" " and when she came back down," " Mercy!" "nothing was the same." "Well, you sure fooled me." "We might even be talking twins." "Now, it's a little early, so" "I want to keep an eye on you, but I don't see why we can't celebrate." "Looks like we hit the jackpot." "Are you ready for number three?" "[SCREAMS]" "[PRIEST]:" "She got what she wanted, but there was a price." "He became the town drunk." "Beat three of my congregation half to death." "All I could do was tell him to stay away." "Oh." "[SHUSHING]" "The end was inevitable." "Frank?" "We both wanted a baby." "[SCREAMS]" "A month after your grandpa died, she found gold on her land." "Gold!" "The next year, we had a drought." "Her farm was the only one spared." "Decade after decade, no matter how bad things were, your grandmother always did very well." "And every time, she'd get a little meaner, she'd get a little nastier." "She was trading in the good bits of herself to get what she wanted." "Well, if you thought she was so bad, then why'd you keep her bible?" "Love is blind." "Well, maybe I'm blind too." "She threw that bible at me just after your grandpa had died." "Swore she'd never set foot in my church again." "I've been praying 50 years for her to come back and claim it." "Maybe it's your turn to pray." ""It's your turn to pray."" "Jesus Christ." "See, this is why we don't go to church." "Well, what was I supposed to do?" "You could have come to me!" "You never talk about grandma." "He's right." "Alright, what do you want to know?" "Did she ever hurt you?" " Badly?" " Well, I'm still here, aren't I?" " That's not an answer." " Are you a mother?" " No..." " Then how the hell would you know what it's like raising three kids alone, no husband, no family, when you've got 104 degrees fever but you still got to change three sets of diapers?" "Think you'd be able to keep your cool all the time?" "Your grandma could be mean." "And she could be rough and I hated her guts sometimes, but she never backed down from her duty." "But, uncle Lan said that" "Uncle Lan is a pinhead." "Do you know I carried him and Jinny for 17 years and all they could do was blame me and grandma for their problems." ""Ooh, I've had such a hard life!"" "Well, boo hoo." "Grow up and deal with it." "If there's one thing I learned in the army, it's you take responsibility for yourself." "Then how come you ran away?" "[REBECCA SCREAMS]" "[GEORGE]:" "Lanning!" "He killed her!" "[REBECCA]:" "Killed?" "It's not her blood." "[INDISTINCT]" "[REBECCA]:" "Thanks." "You okay?" "So now they're saying uncle Lan died of an aneurism." "[SIGH] From all that drinking." "He hated her, right?" "And he was drunk." "Put his hands around her throat and started squeezing." "It sounds like you're trying to convince yourself of something." "What do you know?" "You're just a figment of my imagination." "Is that all you think I am?" "Tell me what to do then!" " Help me!" " She says you will fight," "George." "You have to finish it first." "What's happening to you?" "[REBECCA]:" "She's going to need one of us close now all the time." "So, we'll have to sleep in shifts." "[GEORGE EXHALES HARD]" "You mean it's a death watch." " Can you just give us a minute?" " Yeah." "Hey, George." "I'm sorry." "It's not your fault." "No." "I mean, I'm-I'm sorry." "She's been closer to you than" "I ever was and" "I'm gonna change that." "Will you help me change that?" "Must have been where the fight started." "Maybe we shouldn't open it." "What?" "You think it's gonna shoot out bolts of lightning or something?" "One." "Two." "Three!" "What's it say?" "Nothing." " We're wasting our time." " Charlotte's into all this stuff." "She's gotta know something." "Jim?" "Charlotte?" "We shouldn't be here." "No, it's fine." "Jim said come anytime." "George, they're not here." "We should go." "Here, see if you can find anything in that." "What should I look for?" "Books with raindrops." "No raindrops." "What about... tears?" "Umm, tears..." "Weeping, sobbing." "There is weeping." "Yeah." "Weeping book." "During the witch hunts of the middle ages, anyone caught with a magic related book was routinely burned at the stake." "Legend has it that necromancers created a special type of book that could avoid detection." "While the manuscripts and pages appeared blank text was actually written in an ink that only became visible upon contact with solid human tears." "Hence the term weeping book." "An individual was required to cry upon its pages while praying for the thing that one most wanted." "Words would then appear describing a necromantic rite needed to procure what one desired." "[BARKS]" "[BUDDY]:" "World hunger." "Darfour." "Julia Child." " Julia Child?" " She died too young!" "You're supposed to cry for something you want, you dumbass." "What'd you think of?" "There was a way to cure grandma." "Well, look at it this way:" "it'd make a really great diary." "Buddy, wait!" "What are you doing?" "What do you think I'm doing?" "We don't know what chopping this thing up will do!" "You'd rather keep it around?" "You really think that's going to solve anything?" "No, but I sure feel a whole" "[BUDDY GROANS]" "God." "Buddy!" "Bud" " Mom!" "We need to get to the car, come on!" "Come on!" "Mom!" "Here we go." "Here we go." "Come on, baby!" "Mom, wait!" "Stay with grandma!" " What?" " You know we can't leave her alone!" "Mom, please!" "I'm really scared." "Call Jim." "Have him come over." "Call Jim!" "Mom, let's go!" "Jim." "It's George." "Third message." "Just wondering when you're going to be coming over." "Please call me." "[GRANDMA BREATHING]" "Grandma?" "[GRANDMA GASPS FOR AIR]" "[SIGHS OF RELIEF]" "[KNOCKING AT DOOR]" "Jim?" "[GASPING] [MUTTERING UNINTELLIGIBLY]" " [GRANDMA]:" "It's here." " Grandma!" "There's-there's nothing." "What's here?" "The death wolf." "Okay." "Grandma-Grandma, just stay-stay." "No, no, no, no, no, no." "Stay here." "[GRANDMA PANTING FRIGHTENEDLY]" "[GRANDMA GROWLING DEMONICALLY]" "[MUTTERING UNINTELLIGIBLY]" "[DEMONIC GROWLING]" "[DEMONIC NOISES]" "[GRANDMA]:" "Hastur!" "It's coming!" "It's coming!" " It's-- - [GRANDMA MOANS THEN CALMS]" "[PHONE RINGS]" "Mom?" "It's your aunt Jinny." "She came to me, George." "Mercy's spirit." "She told me what it wants." "It's you." " George, it's always been you." " What?" "She held it off as long as she could but please, you have to get away, as far as possible." "You've got to get out of the house." "I busted out of the hospital." "I had to hurt some people." " Remember Dead Tree Hill?" " Jinny!" "Just down the road from grandma's." "Meet me there tonight." "If you see him," " make the sign of the cross." " Jinny?" "Make the sound of the cross!" " Jinny!" "?" " Get away from me!" "[PHONE HANGS UP]" "[GRANDMA FALLS TO THE FLOOR]" "Oh, no." "Come on." "Get up." "Come on." "Come on, grandma, get up." "I can't lift you on my own, grandma." "Come on!" "Oh, no." "No, no, no, no." "Grand-grandma, wake up." "Wake up!" "It was just your medicine!" "Please!" "Wake up." "Grandma, it was just your medicine." "Please wake up." "[SOBBING]" "No." "No." "9-1-1 emergency." "Yeah, thi" "This is George." "Mercy McCoy's grandson." "She's just..." "Please hold." "[GRUNTS]" "What is happening?" "Help me!" "I can't." "He's keeping me out." "What do I do?" "Get the axe in the cellar." "Break down the doors." "[GROANS]" "Hastur." "[GRANDMA CONTINUES MUTTERING UNINTELLIGIBLY]" "[SCREAMS]" "[YELLS]" "Jim!" "Jim!" "Back up for a second." "You say she tried to cut you?" " No, she tried to eat me." " Eat you?" "Like-like the pictures in the weeping book." "And then I-I grabbed the verbena plant and I burned her face with it." "And you fought her off with a houseplant?" "It was a demon, Jim." "And-and the death wolf came after me and..." "I ran and..." "Y-you believe me, right?" " I don't know." " [JIM]:" "Charlotte..." "I used to think it was just crap to tell tourists." " But" " But what?" "Kid's scared half to death." "He wouldn't have imagined any of this if you hadn't told him those goddamn stories." "Don't blame me!" "What he's saying is different from the stories." "What do you mean?" "The death wolf isn't a demon." "It's meant to go after wicked folk." "Why would it go after you?" "Uncle Lanning." "What?" "I switched out grandma's drugs for saline." "She must have gotten some of her strength back." "She killed him, Jim." "I helped her kill my uncle." "George..." "You didn't help try to kill anyone." "Then how else do you explain it?" "You said you left me messages, right?" "Well, there's nothing on my cell." "Isn't it possible that maybe..." "I don't know, you..." " imagined or dreamed all this?" " No, it's true." "It's all real." "I called you." " Call the police." " And tell them what?" "Think they're going to believe this story?" "They'll lock us up." "I don't care about the police." "I just want to see my mom." "[SIGHS]" "Alright, you got it, my man." "Let's go see your mom." "What's the matter?" "Jim?" "Why couldn't you just stay put, huh?" "Why?" "What?" "Look, this is not what you think." "You're like a son to me." "Do you know how much I tried to turn her down?" "Turn her down for what?" "What the hell was she going to give you, Jim?" "A new camera?" "You're just a kid." "You don't know what it's like." "Look at me." "You don't know what it's like to love someone." "And not be able to be with them." "You have no idea." "She promised you my mom?" "No." "Hastur did." "Hey!" "Don't!" "Son, please!" "Don't." " Come on!" " George!" "Shoot me!" " Stop!" " Shoot me, you asshole!" "George!" "[GUNSHOT]" "George!" "[WOLF GROWLING]" "Aunt Jinny!" "Aunt Jinny!" "Jinny!" "Finally." "No, no, no." "[CELL PHONE RINGS]" "Hello?" "George?" " Mom?" " [INDISTINCT]" " George, where are you?" " Mom?" "Where's aunt Jinny?" "George?" "George?" "Look, I can't find grandma and the house is all messed up and" "Oh, my god!" "[SCREAMS]" "[GROANS]" "You could just keep running." "It'd be suicide to go back." "You know that." "I have to try!" "What if you fail?" "Who's going to help them?" "Mom?" "Mom, wake up, please!" "Please wake up!" "Come on!" "[RECITES RITUAL]" "Hastur!" "Grandma, please!" "There's got to be something left of you." "Stop!" "Hastur did this to you!" "This isn't you!" "Forget Hastur!" "You're my grandmother." "You're Mercy!" "[SOBS]" "Mom." "That's what you want?" "[GRANDMA]:" "You have to be brave." "You have to stand up." "I love you, grandma." "Georgie?" "I love you too, Georgie." "Grandma?" "[GEORGE]:" "The deal grandma made came from a strong need for family." "The truth is, I would have never been born if she hadn't done it." "So, in a strange way, even the darkest things in life can be a blessing." "But, no matter what challenges we face, we'll face them as a family," "just like grandma wanted."