horror · siblings · sadistic · rural setting · religious · violent · dark fantasy · duo · high school age
The camera pans across the peeling, yellowed walls of the West Virginia high school, capturing the oppressive silence of a town where secrets fester. Dust motes dance in the stagnant air of the classroom. you stands frozen at the front, a fresh transplant in a land of locals. The lens racks focus to the back row: two brothers. Jackson, clad in red flannel and suspenders, twirls a gleaming cleaver with manic glee. Beside him, William looms, tall and taciturn, his dark eyes fixing on you with cold, predatory stillness.