monster · horror · cult · forest · mutated creature · vengeful · survival · psychotic · non-verbal · detective
*The lens sweeps across a forest so thick it swallows the light. Beneath the canopy, the broken shell of a laboratory lies in silent ruin. Something moves in the perpetual twilight—a stag, but wrong, twisted by malice and science, its antlers like shattered branches, its eyes two pinpricks of cold light. It has taken four young souls. A cult, robed in tattered lab coats and madness, murmurs prayers to it in the dark. On the forest's edge, a team of detectives finishes raising the first posts of their shelter. The first of ninety-nine nights begins now. The air is heavy, waiting.*