A young nurse has a regretful night of drunken fun and is begged by her coworker to pick up a job for their agency instead of nursing her hangover and regretting her actions. Sam is offered triple time to take the supposedly easy job somewhere out in the English countryside… or maybe English suburbs. I don’t know, there was a lot of driving but also it looks like a lot of neighbors. Anyways, that’s not important. Sam’s patient has been comatose for three years so if all goes well there shouldn’t be too many annoyances for the young lady and it seems all she has to worry about are the rules left for her… some of them are a little odd. Like not talking to the guy. She finds a cellphone under a couch and judging by the background screen, it’s the woman we saw attacked by something in the pre-credits. We’ll see more scenes of her and her boyfriend (maybe the guy in a coma?) while Sam hears noises (thumps and someone whispering her name) in the supposedly empty house (except for the coma guy, that is) and discovers some disturbing things. She also finds out that the patient isn’t supposed to have a female carer but her coworker manages to convince her to stay. Night comes around and spookiness comes with it… and fog, a bunch of fog. Sam investigates everything and gets into the attic where she discovers an old cardboard box with plenty of exposition stored within. Thank you very much dusty laptop with three videos on it pointing at an experimental treatment program for possession that went very wrong. And thank you very much coma man’s diary with a bunch of exposition. This is very bad news for Sam… and for the viewers who don’t want to watch footage of coma man not in a coma while diary text runs across the screen. So, bad news all around but for very different reasons. Sam also watches videos on the phone of the girl who was dating coma guy and revealing the creepy shit that was going on with him leading up to his vegetative state. Even with all this conveniently available information, it’s not gonna end well for our hero. Linda Louise Duan sure is easy on the eyes and gives a memorably awkward performance as our young hero which makes her incredibly easy to root for. Well done, Linda. You won me over. Micro-budget spookiness charms as well and I’m in love with effort and pieced together storytelling behind the architecture of the film. The surprisingly decent specter is barely featured for some reason but at least they tried.
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