Sophie Dickenson-Munguia

Seeking an escape from the pressures of his final college thesis, Marvin and his friends head to a seemingly peaceful rental house in a quiet suburban neighborhood. But the eerie silence of the locals is quickly broken when the group realizes the residents share a terrifying, mind-altering secret hidden behind glowing blue eyes. Ruled by a cryptic man named Elias Vale, the neighborhood operates on a single, brutal rule: those who judge are marked for possession. As his friends are systematically taken and transformed for their arrogance, Marvin must navigate a suburban nightmare where a simple misunderstanding is a death sentence, and surviving means confronting the true cost of human empathy.

After finally building the life he once dreamed of, a young man begins to feel suffocated by the constant effort it takes to maintain it. Exhausted and disillusioned, he starts to lose sight of why he worked so hard in the first place.. As his addiction tightens its grip, his reality begins to fracture. Without the substance, his mind spirals-distorting his perception and isolating him from the world around him. Soon, he starts seeing a dark, shadowy version of himself lurking in the distance... watching, waiting, and slowly getting closer. What begins as an escape turns into a psychological nightmare, as the figure grows impossible to ignore-an eerie manifestation of his unraveling mind, and a haunting reflection of the path he's chosen.