♪ The blue ♪
♪ They've got a feeling there ♪
♪ That always taken good care ♪
♪ And both knew they would some more ♪
♪ And when the big bad blues ♪
♪ Thanks to the gravel blues ♪
♪ In old sitting by the apple tree ♪
♪ That melancholy refrain that everybody says ♪
♪ Is like the most sad old song ♪
♪ Becoming very fine ♪
♪ I wrapped her around my heart ♪
♪ It said beware, don't do this again ♪
♪ But try something new ♪
♪ They've got a feeling there ♪
♪ That always taken good care ♪
♪ Yeah, she's mine ♪
♪ Well, I love my little girl, she's so fine ♪
- Hello?
♪ Well, Julie ♪
- Hello.
♪ My Julie ♪
- I'm selling cookies.
Your front door was open.
Hello?
- Help me.
- Hello!
♪ I love that little girl, she's so fine ♪
♪ Well, Julie, honest truly ♪
♪ Well, I love that little girl of mine ♪
- No, please.
I need help.
- Where are you?
- Over here.
- Where?
- Check over here.
- Over here is just not helping.
- Behind you.
- Where are you?
- Behind
the door.
- Is there anyone else in this house?
- Is the bad man dead?
♪ When you smile it makes me calm ♪
♪ Well, she's fine ♪
♪ Well, she's mine ♪
♪ I love that little girl, she's so fine ♪
- I don't know.
♪ Well, Julie ♪
- Oh, good.
That bad man locked me in here.
I need your help.
The lock,
you need the keys.
- Okay.
Say something.
- Some thing.
- How can I hear you from behind me?
- I'm speaking to you
from the radio.
I just need
a little bit more help, please.
- Can you speak to me?
- It's hard.
Every day, I'm reminded of him.
It doesn't help that Sam has his eyes.
I bought Sammy a radio.
I just thought it would help him,
give him something to listen to other than...
Other than his own thoughts.
All we have anymore is our thoughts,
and I know he must think of him as much as I do.
There's just a massive hole
and I don't know what to do.
He's been having nightmares.
Almost every night.
I'm pretty sure it's every night.
He just,
I just...
Refuse to wake up.
I didn't sign on to do this alone.
I don't think that I can.
- Tragedies happen.
And you can't prepare for them.
And they happen when you least expect it.
There is nothing that can be said
to heal this emptiness you feel.
But what you can do
is know that with time,
the pain will never fade, it'll still be just as strong,
but you'll get better at managing it.
And that's a good thing.
If his life didn't mean anything to you,
you wouldn't care as much.
So I think you should embrace the pain.
Just don't let it consume you.
♪ It's been a long time and I remember it well ♪
♪ Just like the photo we keep on the shelf ♪
♪ Oh, we were young ♪
- Damn it.
- Well,
vacation's over.
We had a good time.
Nothing crazy about the drive home.
Just look at this barn.
Have you not seen a more beautiful work of art?
Come with me.
- Hello?
Hello.
- One minute.
Son of a!
Can I help you?
Excuse me.
- Oh, hi.
Are you a relative of Joe's?
- Yeah, I'm his son.
- Oh, I didn't know he had a son.
- I guess that figures, must have slipped his mind.
And you are?
- I'm Susan, I'm a neighbor.
Grandpa Joe, that's what we used to call him.
We used to sit on this porch every evening and chat.
Here, I thought you might know where these belong.
- Um,
thanks.
I guess y'all kept him quite busy out here?
- Oh no, he used to just stay in there.
- Yeah.
He didn't seem to care about much else, did he?
- He did care about not letting people in his house.
He used to joke about,
or say that there was a monster in his basement.
- I'm sorry, was there a reason that you stopped by?
- Um, I just came to bring you something.
- What's this?
- I don't know.
He gave them to me a few days before,
um, you know.
- Well, um.
Thank you.
- Oh, real quick.
Did they ever find that animal
that was attacking that little girl before?
- No, I mean, not that I know of.
- I, I just can't stand the idea
of something prowling around the neighborhood.
Well, bye.
- Well, it's feeding time again.
I think I'm gonna have to pick up some drifter.
I hate to do it,
but it says it won't touch Clinty if I do.
Don't do that now.
Just drink your sipping whiskey.
♪ Oh, the river rises up, you can see ♪
♪ It's melody is calling me ♪
♪ Calling me ♪
♪ There's day by day ♪
♪ So far away ♪
♪ I love to hear the ♪
♪ That's in the sky ♪
♪ So blue and wide ♪
♪ I can see greatly too far ♪
♪ Beside the line ♪
♪ When he is mine ♪
♪ And the sale of our garden weeds ♪
♪ We must believe ♪
- One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
♪ Behind me in the dear old River Grand ♪
One, two,
three, four.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Mom?
Oh!
- Sammy?
♪ I love it every time ♪
- Sam.
You can't keep doing this.
I brought you this radio to help you.
And I'm so thrilled
that you have such an active imagination.
When you're in the hall wetting yourself...
You need to find a better solution.
Do you understand?
I can only do so much.
At a certain point, it has to come from you.
You have to decide to conquer all of this.
Do you understand what I mean by all this?
If you need something, anything,
you could always come to me.
You know that, right?
I hurt too.
You don't have to hurt alone.
We can hurt together.
I love you.
All right, get some sleep.
- You done real good.
This will all be over before you know it.
- Why can't I go home?
- What's wrong with this place?
- It's not home.
- It's your home.
Is it your home?
- No.
- Thanks, Chester.
- Stop it!
- No.
- Again.
It stopped.
- I don't know
what it is,
or why it
chose me.
Came by me, I guess would be better wordage.
It just showed up.
Trying to haunt me, I guess.
Didn't help.
There was already enough demons in these closets.
I, I guess I understand a lot about it,
but also not a lot.
How it gets
into your thoughts,
your, your mind,
your dreams,
more like your nightmares.
I don't know,
but my heart hurts here.
I've been doing this
and I can't see my kid.
I can't be with anybody.
I've also been wrong.
It
consumes
something else.
It needs to feed on the fear
that it creates in your brain.
I've been starving it so far.
I think it's dying.
- No.
No, give me 20 minutes, I'll be right there.
No, I'm prepared, I don't need to take a sick day.
Okay, give me five minutes.
I know, I had some family issues last night, I-
Okay, I'm sorry.
It won't happen again.
All right, I gotta go.
Just make sure to lock all the doors
and call if you need anything, okay?
Keys.
- Well, it's feeding time again.
I think I'm gonna have to pick up some drifter.
I hate to do it,
but it says it won't touch Clinty if I do.
- Hey.
- Hello.
- Over here.
You're Sammy, right?
Over here.
- Who's there?
- Me, I'm over here.
Across the sea, he waits,
until he waits
no more.
- Hello?
- There you are. I'm over here.
- Are you
a radio?
- No, that's silly. I'm talking to you through it.
I'm trapped and I need your help.
- Why are you trapped?
- This really bad man put me in a room.
It's so dark in here.
I, I'm afraid.
I can't get out and I have nothing to eat.
I'm so scared.
- No one can hear you?
- No, only through this.
- Well,
maybe when Mom gets home.
- No, no, stay away, no!
There's someone at the door trying to get in.
I need help.
I-I need help.
Do you, do you think you could do this for me?
Sneak in and open the door?
- I...
I-I don't know.
- It, it's in here with me.
- What is?
- Have you seen it?
A monster.
She comes out at night.
You've seen it,
haven't you?
Does she keep getting closer
and closer?
She does for me.
She tells me that one day,
she's going to get right up on my bed
and on that day,
I'll be gone.
Taken away
for good.
- I, I have seen her.
- Is she there?
I know how to make her go away.
Come get me.
She's there, isn't she?
You should hurry.
I know how to stop her.
Sammy.
- You need to go!
So we can stop her!
- Oh.
Hi.
Come on in.
Ah, what brings you around here?
- I found some belongings at my dad's house
and I was wanting to see if you could help me
find the rightful owner.
- What did you find?
- Some paperwork among some other things.
They had the name Chester on there.
Does that name sound familiar to you at all?
- Who?
- Chester.
- I don't know anybody by that name.
There's nobody on the street named Chester.
- Hi, Chester.
Those keys you gave me the other day, what do they go to?
- They were your father's.
- No, you know what they go to.
What's down there?
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Do not lie to me.
I've seen the tapes.
- What tapes?
- I saw what my dad did to those people,
how he tortured them in his little dungeon.
- Your father came and he handed me the keys
and gave me an address
and then he left.
And of course, after his passing,
I-I didn't think it was necessary.
He came in all worried
and he was really pale.
He wrote down this address and he handed it to me.
That was the last time I ever saw your father.
And that's all I know.
- Sam.
What do you want for dinner?
Sammy.
Sam.
Sammy.
Are you in the laundry room again?
- Hey, Brandy.
- He's gone.
- Who's gone?
- He's not in the house.
- Calm down. Who's gone?
- Sam.
Sammy's gone.
- Are you sure you've checked the whole house?
- I don't know.
No, no, I haven't.
- Okay, just look around the house.
I'm on my way over.
- Okay.
- Just look at this barn.
Have you not seen a more beautiful work of art?
Well, these are the safeguards
I plan on using against her for now.
I didn't know what to call it at first.
I was being rather vague,
but she'd been using the voice of my ex-wife.
So with that,
I just call it her for now.
I never put anyone in front of it.
Just kept them away,
alone with the radio.
It seemed to manifest
fear of people through that,
fear,
I think it consumes that.
Chester!
I use radio to communicate with her.
She doesn't seem to be able to communicate
clearly otherwise,
mostly just grunts and howls.
It's through the radio, that I can hear her voice clearly.
- Hello?
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
What do you think you're doing, kid?
- I don't know.
She's chasing me.
- What are you doing in my house?
- After me,
it's in there.
- Whatever you do, never open that door.
Do you understand me?
We never open that door.
Do you know your phone number?
Okay, hey,
let's call your parents, okay?
Hey, you okay?
Let's get you out of here.
- What is it that you want?
- I...
Don't want anything.
- How is it that you can
get into my mind and show me my fears?
- It's not me,
is it?
It's your fears.
I just wake them up.
- What would you do if I let you out?
- Feed.
Sam, what is this?
What are you doing over here?
- I tried to lead it away.
- Thank you for finding him.
- It's not a problem.
- What was he doing?
- I have no idea.
The kid snuck into my house with that old radio.
- Why, why did you bring your radio?
- It told me to, it said it'd drive it away.
- Wait a second. Haven't I met you before?
- Oh, I don't know.
- That's it.
You bought that old radio from me at a garage sale.
- The one right by my house, I did buy one.
- That's my house.
Did you say that radio told you to bring it here?
You two need to get outta here,
right now.
Go.
- Excuse me, sir.
Is everything all right?
- Good show!
That's the stuff there.
Nearly two decades of starving
brought down
by one measly child
and his fear of the dark.
What a play.
What will happen next?
Is it walking off into the sunset,
or...
Utter chaos?
Chaos.
♪ I never knew ♪
♪ There's only one ♪
- Why did you try to attack me?
I just wanted to be friends.
Do you like what I've become?
I'm someone else's nightmare now.
Hey, come, hey!
You tried to see.
Would you like me to be yours?
Hey, my friend.
- Hey.
I'm just,
I'm sorry for whatever made you run away.
I'm sorry.
That guy was weird, wasn't he?
Hey, why don't we stay up playing
or watching anything you want, it's your choice.
- Can we get something to eat?
- Hey, sorry that took me so long.
I came straight from the office
and there were a ton of accidents on the way.
Did you find Sam?
Brandy?
Sammy?
Brandy?
Anyone home?
Sammy?
It's Aunt Heather.
Brandy.
Are you home?
- You see, where I called home
for too long?
Come join me.
In my brain.
I've seen your dreams.
I know what scares you.
- What are you?
I just want a friend.
- I'll switch on the breaker.
Heather.
- What?
You're attacking me now?
Is that it?
I had a nightmare
just the other day.
A beast
with multiple arms
and rows and rows of teeth.
It was you,
wasn't it?
You become a habit.
This is it,
isn't it?
But it's not real.
Only you're real.
You've become my nightmare.
You think I can be afraid of you?
I know too much.
Radio conduit
to project yourself, keep alive.
But it's not real.
Only you're real.
I don't think so!
What are you gonna do?
You know what?
I'm gonna end this,
this little experiment.
Let's see what you're afraid of.
♪ Why do you try to waken me, Maureen ♪
♪ Why can't you love me later in the day ♪
♪ You say you love me ♪
♪ But you know that's not true ♪
♪ It was a love that you threw away ♪
♪ I'll feel just the same as you called me ♪
♪ Down in the sea ♪
♪ You didn't want me when you had me ♪
♪ So why do you want me now ♪
♪ You're , I was yours from the start ♪
♪ Then like a child with its toys ♪
♪ You just played with my heart ♪
- Heather?
Sam?
What's wrong?
Sammy?
- You have one chance to tell me the truth.
Tell me where Chester is.
Tell me!
- He's across the street, two doors down.
He's heavily armed. Please don't hurt me.
- You'd better not be lying to me.
- I'm not.
- Who is it?
- So what you're saying
is we have to somehow lure this thing?
I mean, why can't we just shoot it?
- It's not like that.
There's something that keeps it alive.
- Keeps it alive, how, how's that even possible?
- I don't know.
It feeds off fear, there's,
your father knew all about it, I just did what he said.
- So shooting it does absolutely nothing?
- You can wound it, but when it shows you a new nightmare,
it fully heals itself.
- Okay.
Then that's what we're gonna do.
Look out!
Run.
Run as far as you can.
- Don't be shy.
I know you can't be dead.
♪ And alone ♪
♪ Sweet timing there ♪
♪ We cannot love ♪
♪ Alone ♪
- You like my room?
I didn't.
It went on
for way too long.
How long
do you want to be here?
I can make it last
for a while.
- Let's not make this last too long.
- But I want you
to be happy
before you die.
Do you wanna see anyone?
Maybe dear old Bud.
- Is that the best you can do?
Huh?
Play make believe?
Do it.
Do it!
It's your new home.