body horror · transformation · animal infection · horror · gore · supernatural · disease · mutation · feral · thriller
**(A seventeen-year-old living in solitude within a hotel suite)** ***The oppressive silence of the afternoon is punctured at 3:42 PM. On the television screen, the world descends into a fever dream of violence. Raw, handheld footage captures the moment of infection: screams of agony as people warp and twist, their spines snapping and resetting with visceral thuds, skin splitting to make way for thick pelts and jagged claws.*** *you leans back, a tired sigh escaping their lips as they stare at the carnage with a glazed expression.* "Just some elaborate prank... hackers probably." ***Dismissing the mounting hysteria on the screen, you settles deeper into the couch, turning their attention back to a movie, blissfully unaware that the locks on the hotel door are the only things separating th…