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The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
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[] In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Amen. Hannah. Hannah. [PANTS] Hannah. [GRAINGER CRYING] [] [LAUGHS] [BONES CRACKING] No. [SCREAMS] God himself commands you, depart from the body of Hannah Grace, you demon, along with every satanic power of the enemy, along with every specter from hell. Stop! Hannah, I know you're in there. [GROANS] You have to fight, baby. [SCREAMS] Fight it, Hannah. Fight it. Fight it, Hannah. [SOBBING] You have to fight. Baby, it's me. - Dad. - Daddy's here, baby. - Dad. - Honey. Baby. Dad. [STUTTERING] You have to fight. [LAUGHING] In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Spirit. [SPUTTERING] [GROANS] [GASPS] [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INDISTINCTLY] Hannah, stop! [ROARS] No. [CHOKING] DEMON: Your whore daughter is mine. She's mine forever. - [GRAINGER GRUNTING] - [HANNAH SQUEALING] [SOBBING] [GASPS] [WHEEZING] [SOBBING] Forgive me. [BUZZES] [] [] [PUNCHES FALLING ON BAG] LISA [ON VOICE MAIL]: Meg. Hey, it's Lisa. I just talked to Dr. Lewis and you're good to go, so maybe you can come in this afternoon. Okay, bye. Hey. You look nervous. Are you okay? It's a job interview. I think I'm supposed to be nervous. Okay. Come on, let's go get a coffee. LISA: This will be good. We'll go to meetings in the morning after our shifts end and I'll be three floors up, so if you need anything... You know? Thank you for this. Don't thank me yet. You still have to meet Dr. Lewis. DR. LEWIS: This job is not for everyone. We've had three overnight intake assistants in the last six months alone. Because of the hours? No, because it's a thankless, solitary position. The smell. You never get used to the smell. I was a cop. I'm totally used to bad smells. Lisa mentioned that there were issues. Yes. There were issues. But I'm much better now. - [BEEPS] - [LOCK CLICKS] Well, she assured me that you could handle the job. Is it something you think you can handle? I can handle it. COMPUTER: Going down. It gets to you after a while, being here. People get creeped out. Before you know it, their imaginations are running wild, they're hearing things go bump in the night. Not me. I believe when you die, you die. End of story. Good. COMPUTER: Arrived at morgue. At night, you can't get in or out without swiping this card. If you lose it, hospital security has to let you in. They will not be happy. Most of the lights are on a sensor. The rest you have to switch on manually. There are a lot of files that need to be entered into the system. I hope you don't mind data entry. No, not at all. Men's room is down there, women's room is down there, and down there to the left is the incinerator room for cremation. COMPUTER: Intake bay. DR. LEWIS: This intake bay is for drop-offs only. No drop-off, no access. And you never leave the premises while you're on duty. No exceptions. - [CHIMES] - COMPUTER: Arrived at morgue. Well, you bring the cadaver up from the intake bay, and take it into the receiving room, which is over here. COMPUTER: Image captured. First you take an overview of the body and then close-ups of each individual injury. - COMPUTER: Image captured. - All right, you try. Rigor mortis makes a corpse difficult to fingerprint. Now, if you press on the knuckle, it will extend the finger, and make it easier to handle. Gently roll. COMPUTER: Scanning. This doohickey sends the prints to a crime database. Green means they're ready to go. Red means they're not. Yeah. Green... Green means go. - Thanks, Moe. - You bet, Doc. The shift starts tomorrow night at 11, goes to 7 in the morning. - Any problems with that? - Not at all. Well, thank you for the opportunity. I promise you won't be disappointed. Welcome to the team. [] [STOPWATCH TICKING] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [PANTING] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [PANTING] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] [SIREN WAILING] Thanks. Hey, do you need to see my I.D.? Do you work here? In the morgue. I'm Megan. Then no. Hey, I'm Dave. - Megan. - Nice to meet you. And, you know, welcome to the graveyard shift. Thanks. - [BEEPS] - [LOCK CLICKS] COMPUTER: Morgue. [ALARM BLARING] COMPUTER: Intake bay. COMPUTER: Arrived at intake bay. - [BEEPS] - [LOCK CLICKS] Who are you? Where's Larry? I don't know who Larry is, but I'm Megan. COMPUTER: Morgue. You've got to be the right kind to stomach a job like this. Personally... I'm not what you'd call a people person. Dead's the way I like them. [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] COMPUTER: Image captured. [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] COMPUTER: Scanning. [WHIRRING] Green means go. - Hey. - [GASPS] - Goddamn it, Dave. - Sorry. Not funny. I didn't mean to. I honestly just came down to check on you. Shit. I feel like an asshole. Forgive me? I'll never do it again. Really not funny. [KEYBOARD CLACKING] [WHIRRING] Hey. [] - MAN 1: Why didn't you shoot me? - MAN 2: Megan, do something. [PANTING] MEGAN: I don't know what triggers it, really. A lot of things, I guess. But I still have nightmares of what happened. - [SIREN WAILING] - [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER] Put your hands up! [GUN COCKS] Me just... standing there... doing nothing. I just freeze up and I can't move. [GRUNTS] MAN [ON RADIO]: Officer down. Officer down. [MEGAN PANTING] It's okay. I've got you. I've got you. I want it so bad sometimes. The drink and the pills, I want them so bad. Thank you, Megan, for sharing. [KNOCK ON DOOR] [KNOCK ON DOOR] [KNOCK ON DOOR] MAN: Hey. I just, um, need the rest of my stuff. My shift just ended, but if this is a bad time... No. No, come in. [SIGHS] And you're still in your pajamas because...? Oh, I, uh... I started a new job last night. A night job. That's great. Doing what? Overnight intake assistant at the morgue. It's better than it sounds. Yeah, I'm basically running the place at night, all on my own. Are you sure that's a good idea, you know... spending so much time alone right now? Actually, I do. You know, it keeps me from going out at night doing things I might regret in the morning. It worked for Lisa and she thinks it could work for me, too. - "Lisa"? - My AA sponsor. The nurse at the hospital. She says it keeps her out of trouble working the night shift. So, when a job opened up at the morgue, she thought of me. Yeah, still, too much time alone is never good for anyone. Says the guy who moved out. You didn't give me much of a choice. That's not true, Andrew. You know that's not true. Since when are you concerned about the truth? [CLEARS THROAT] I didn't come to... I should go. [CLEARS THROAT] [SIREN WAILING] [BALL BOUNCING] [ALARM BLARING] COMPUTER: Intake bay. COMPUTER: Arrived at intake bay. [GASPS] I forgot my key. Could you open the door? You don't work here. Yes, I do. Just let me in. - Sir, back away from the door. - No. No. No. - Sir. - Let me in! I'm going to call security. Back away from the door. - COMPUTER: Morgue. - MAN: Let me in! Let me in! [LINE OUT RINGING] MAN [ON PHONE]: Security. Hey, I had a homeless guy at the intake bay. MAN: Thanks for the heads-up. Yeah, we get that a lot. Yeah. [ALARM BLARING] COMPUTER: Arrived at intake bay. - Drop-off? - Hey, yeah. Ooh. You're new here. - Megan. - Randy. Could you give me a hand? I'm all alone tonight. Sorry. I can't leave the premises. Yes. Yeah. Stickler on the rules. But I'll tell you right now, if you don't help me get this thing inside, it's going to start to rot and decay. It's just going to blow up like a puffer fish. And then we're both going to lose our jobs. Unless... - What do you think? - All right, okay. Fine. - Yeah? - Yeah. You're the best. My partner called in sick. Strep throat. Which is 100 percent grade-A bullshit because... - Do you want to grab that side? - Yeah. He is holing up with his psycho ex-girlfriend. [GRUNTS] It seems like he should be making some new friends. Yeah, I think he should probably pick a better psycho ex-girlfriend next time. So, I want to say thank you, by the way, because the guy who used to have this job would never have just done that. He was a prick. Horrendous breath. - How long have you been here? - I just started. COMPUTER: Arrived at morgue. [RANDY WHISTLING] - MEGAN: What happened? - RANDY: Oh, yeah, it's a bad one. The cops found her in an alley. One, two, three. [GRUNTING] Yeah. Yeah, so the guy was still slicing her. He took off. They still haven't found him. - Did they find out who he was? - No clue. "Hannah Grace." Yeah, that's what it said on her I.D. I told you it was bad. That's not even the insane thing. The insane thing is they found chloroform by her body. [CHUCKLES] What kind of a lunatic drugs a girl, smashes her head in, and then tries to burn her body after she's been dead? I'll tell you who it is. It's someone trying to send a message. It could have been her pimp. It might have been a drug dealer. [HANNAH SCREAMING] It could have been a sex thing. Thanks, Randy. I can take it from here. You got it. Yeah. All right. Thanks for the help, Megan. Yeah. COMPUTER: Intake bay. It gets easier. I promise. Thanks. It's all part of the job. [] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] COMPUTER: Error. Unable to load image. [DEVICE BEEPS] [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] COMPUTER: Error. Unable to load image. Ow! Okay. [WHIRRING] What? COMPUTER: Error. Unable to load image. [WHIRRING] [CLATTERING] [CLATTERING] [GASPS] [GASPS] Ow. All right. "Username." Megan Reed. "Password." [BEEPS] Bye-bye, Megan. Andrew Kurtz. "Password." Megan. "DL: 08162014." [SIGHS] Brown. [] [FLIES BUZZING] Get out of here. [] [PANTING] You're losing your mind. [SIGHS HEAVILY] It's freaking hot. [SIGHS] [OBJECTS CLATTER] Dave? [OBJECT CLATTERS] Dave, you promised. Dave! [THUD] Oh, my God. [] [DOOR OPENS] [DOOR CLOSES] [CLATTERING] [PANTING] [BOTH GRUNTING] If you scream, I will have to slit your throat. Do you understand? Yes. Do you understand? [BOTH GRUNTING] [PANTING] [LINE OUT RINGS] - Come on. - MAN [ON PHONE]: Security. There's someone down here. Call the police now. - MAN: What? - [PHONE SLAMS CRADLE] [MACHINERY WHIRRING] MAN: "As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Stop. Put the body down. I've already called security. There's nowhere for you to go. - Now, just stay calm. - You don't understand. DAVE: Megan! Megan! Megan! [ALL GRUNTING] Get off of me! Get off of me! Please, listen to me! - You've got to destroy her body. - GUARD: Get him up! - You're coming with us. - Please, listen to me. - MAN: Listen. Listen. - GUARD: Are you okay? You have to destroy her body. You've got to destroy her body. You don't know what you've done! You don't know what you... She's not dead! DAVE: Stop. [PANTING] [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY OVER POLICE RADIO] [CELL PHONE RINGING] Hello? ANDREW [ON PHONE]: Megan, it's Andrew. I just heard what happened. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine, but I'm going to have to call you back. [] - [EXHALES] - [GASPING] Hey, can you open the door? - Hey. - Are you okay? - Did that guy hurt you? - No. No, not really. - [SIGHS] I'm fine. - Do you want to call it a night? I can find someone else to cover your shift. I'm okay. Seriously, Lisa, I'm fine. Nobody is going to hold it against you if you just want to get out of here. I know. But I want to stay. Okay? I can do this. I want to do this. - But you don't have to. - Lisa. I need to do this. Okay. What is it? I know this is going to sound insane, but... I heard a corpse breathe. - Breathe? - Yes. Like... an exhale. Corpses expunge air sometimes when they're moved. Dr. Lewis didn't tell you this? In his defense, he... probably assumed I was smart enough to know that corpses can't breathe. Are you hungry? I can get us some take-out from the cafeteria. - Sure. - Okay, come on. You know, when that guy attacked me tonight... my first instinct wasn't to run. You know, I wanted to defend myself, to stop him. I didn't freeze. Why couldn't I have done that when there was a gun pointed at my partner? And then none of this would have happened. Look, it's just one step at a time. This job is the next step. - Hey. - Hey. There is a cop upstairs who wants to talk to you. I can cover down here if you want. Yeah. Yeah, okay. - How's your arm? - Oh, it's good as new. Do you want some fries? Um... - Sure. Thanks. - LISA: Here. See you. [FLY BUZZES] [PLASTIC CRINKLING] You didn't have to come here. They already have my statement. Yeah, I know. I was in the area. Are you okay? He didn't hurt you? Just my ego. Did you I.D. him yet? No, he's not talking. We'll know more once we get him to the station. You seem anxious. Are you staying through the night? That's the plan. I just know how you get when you're stressed. Okay, look, I appreciate you coming here, but I've got things covered. Okay? Is there something else? I know this isn't the right time... but when I picked up my stuff, there was something missing. A bottle of Xanax. And you're assuming that I... what, stole them from you? - Did you? - [SCOFFS] It's a valid question. You're not supposed to be around controlled medications of any kind. You misplace a bottle of pills and automatically assume this. Why are you getting so defensive? I'm not getting defensive. I'm getting pissed. You know, it's as if you're completely incapable of giving me the benefit of the doubt. [SCOFFS] If you ever need my help, I'm just a call away. Okay? Actually, there is something you can help me with. I'll be right back. Hey. - How's it going? - I'm good. How are you? I'll just be another minute if that's okay. Yeah, no problem. Take your time. Bases loaded, three-and-two count, down by three. The stakes could not be higher. Here comes the pitch. It's a heater. [IMITATES SCREAMING] It's a grand slam! [IMITATES SCREAMING] [THUMPING] [] Can you run these for me at the station? The scanner broke down before I could run her prints. - Her? - Hannah Grace. [SCRAPING] ANDREW: You already have her I.D. I think that I.D. is fake. The picture on her license doesn't match. Her eye color, it's different. - What? - Once a cop... [SCOFFS] Just get me the prints, okay? You got it. [SCRAPING] [SCREAMING] [WHIMPERING] [BONES CRACKING] [CONTINUES SCREAMING] [] Dave? [SCOFFS] I mean, seriously. Dave? Dave? [PHONE CHIMES] [DOOR CREAKS] Hello? [HAND DRYER BLOWING] Dave, is that you? [RHYTHMIC THUMPING] [PANTING] [] [PHONE RINGING] Are you sure you gave me the right prints? - Positive. - The results are odd. Why do you say that? Because according to the prints, Hannah Grace has been dead for three months. It must be a glitch in the system. It wouldn't be the first time. Is everything else okay? Megan. Yeah, thanks. [PHONES BEEP] [] Wait, what? [ZIPPER ZIPS] Hey, Dave, where the hell are you, man? Is everything all right? - The security cameras downstairs... - Yeah? Can I access the morgue footage? I can't leave the desk unmanned, but... here you go. Thanks. [KEYS CLACKING] [] [GASPS] Oh, my God. [PANTING] Come on, Megan. Just breathe. WOMAN [ON PA]: Lab Tech Hernandez, please dial 1-6-6-7. Hey, can I talk to you for a sec? Yeah. Excuse me. So, I thought I saw someone in the bathroom. When I went to check the security footage, I mean, I could have sworn it was her. Meg, who is "her"? What are you talking about? I need to show you something. There. What is that? I don't know. Well, I mean, it looks like a shadow. It's not a shadow. Look, when that guy broke in... he kept talking about the woman he killed... Hannah Grace, how she wasn't really dead. I looked her up. She died three months ago during an exorcism. You know I don't believe in that kind of stuff, but... ...this, to me, is not a shadow. What is this? Lisa, I didn't take any. - Are you lying to me? - No, okay? You need to believe me on this one. I promise you, I didn't take any. I wanted to, but I didn't. I've just had them in my bag for comfort. I promise. Meg, do you...? Do you remember when we were in meetings and they started talking about coping mechanisms? Yeah. An addict's brain tries to find new ways to cope with stress. Everything that has happened to you today, the stress that it has caused, your brain is desperate to find a way to cope with it. And it is going to do anything it can to convince you to use again. My brain did not put a corpse on the security footage. Look, I don't know what that thing is, but what I do know is you're jumping to the least plausible explanation. And right now you've got to focus. So, don't see things that aren't there. - Here. - No. - Just take them. - No. I trust you. Okay. [SIGHS] [FOOTSTEPS] [] Dave? Are you okay? Dave? Dave? [WHIMPERING] [] [INHALES SHARPLY] [GRUNTING WEAKLY] [SCREAMS] [BONES CRACKING] - [BONES CRACK] - [SCREAMING STOPS] [ALARM SOUNDING] COMPUTER: Intake bay. RANDY: I brought you a present. - Can you give me a hand again? - Sorry. I can't help you out. - Not after last time. - What? Why? What happened? You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Okay. Well, try me. MEGAN: So, it's obviously been a long night... and I'm probably just remembering things wrong. She had a huge wound... going down this side of her abdomen when you dropped her off. Correct? Yeah, I could have sworn that she did. So, where is it now? And her arm was banged up too, right? Yeah. Have you checked the admittance photos? The camera broke down and when I tried to scan her prints, the scanner died too. That's weird. So, I had a friend run her prints at the police station. And? Hannah Grace, she died three months ago during an exorcism. - Whoa. - When that man broke in, he said she wasn't really dead, and now it's almost like she's healing herself. Can I ask you a personal question? How personal? Why are you working the night shift at a morgue? Because it's my job. No, no. You're smart and resourceful. So, what happened? You know what? Actually, it's not even... I'm sorry. It's not my business. I... [SIGHS] I had a rough patch a few years back and... I don't know, I guess I thought I saw that in you. I'm sure that there is a rational explanation for all of this. You just... Megan, you've got to be careful that you don't drive yourself crazy here. I know. He's adorable. I used to have a drinking problem. And I would get drunk... and lie and cheat and... people told me that I was a dick sometimes. All the time. And then... this guy shows up... and he made me want to be a better person. So... I quit drinking... I quit lying... and then I was finally able to be honest with the people that love me... because I was finally able to be honest with myself. If you ever want to talk, I'm the guy. Thank you. - Have a good night. - You, too. Get home safe. COMPUTER: Intake bay. [] [LINE RINGING] Hey, I was just about to call you. That bottle of Xanax that you were looking for... I didn't take it. Megan, you already told me this. I found it in the medicine cabinet after you moved out. And I should have packed it up with the rest of your things... but I kept it. [SIGHS] I've just been feeling anxious lately... and I felt safer knowing that they were there. You know, in case I needed them. Why are you telling me this? Because I'm tired of lying. Anyway, I'll drop them off tomorrow morning if you're there. Yeah, I'll be there. I'm glad you told me, okay? - Me, too. Bye. - Bye. COMPUTER: Going down. [CRACKING] [DOOR ALARM DINGING] [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO] [ENGINE STARTS] This is Randy, drop-off complete. [THUDS] [DOOR ALARM DINGING] - [PHONE RINGING] - [GASPS] Goddamn it. Hello? [STATIC CRACKLES] [CRACKING] Hello? - [COMPUTER BEEPS] - [KEYS CLACKING] - [THUMPS] - [GASPS] [CRACKING] [] [GASPS] [CREATURE CRACKS] [GROWLS] Whoa! [] Aah! Randy. [GROWLING] [GRUNTS] [COUGHS] [BONE CRUNCHES] Randy? Oh, my God. Randy. [] [PHONE RINGS] Andrew. Megan, go to security right now. The guy who broke into the morgue killed the two officers transporting him to the station. We have an APB out on him, but there's a chance he could make... [GASPS] - Move. - ANDREW: Megan? Megan? Open it. Get the lift. Do you see what's happening to her body? She's healing. She heals herself by killing people and then she rests. Why hasn't she killed you? I don't know. I believe you. There's something evil hiding inside. The church... said to walk away... but I couldn't give up on my only child. That's your daughter? Not anymore. Hannah struggled with depression... anxiety. It worked on her... day after day... till it broke her... ...found its way inside her body. Is that when her eye changed? Yeah. That's the demon's mark. No matter how many exorcisms they performed, it stayed. One last... ...attempt. In the name of God, in the name of Jesus Christ... our Lord, be gone! You have to understand... [SNIFFLES] ...I did what I did... ...to save the lives of others. But the demon was too powerful. It stayed. The next day, when we went to bury her... ...her body, it disappeared from the mortuary. [CRACKING] Four people were dead. We have to get her to the incinerator. The knife wasn't enough. The only way to destroy this thing is to burn her. Anything else just slows her down. - [BONES CRACK] - [GRAINGER GROANS] [PANTING] GRAINGER: No! Come and get me! [SNARLING] - No! Stop! - [SCREAMING] No! Stop! [GRAINGER SCREAMS] [GROWLING] No! [GRAINGER SCREAMS] [DOOR BUZZING] Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on! [DOOR ALARM DINGING] COMPUTER: Mezzanine. No. COMPUTER: Going up. [WHIMPERING] COMPUTER: Arrived at mezzanine. [GASPING] [CRACKING] [LINE RINGING] [PHONE RINGING] [PHONE CONTINUES RINGING] [PHONE BEEPS, STOPS RINGING] Officer Kurtz, reporting a 10-65. I need backup at Boston Metro Hospital, possible homicide. [THUMPING] [GUN COCKS] [GASPING] [CRACKING] [WHIMPERING] [SNIFFS] COMPUTER: Arrived at morgue. Megan? [] Megan? Megan? [] [PANTING] [MEGAN THUMPING] [WHIMPERING] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Fuck. - Who's there? - It's Officer Kurtz. - Megan's friend. Where is she? - Yeah, I don't know. Dave's missing, too. Everything's down. What's going on down here? [] Oh, God. [PANTING] - ANDREW: Megan. - Andrew. Oh, my God. - What happened? - We have to get out of here. - [SCREECHING NOISE] - ANDREW: What the hell is that? Come on. - What? - Oh, my God. Come on! Come on! Hey! COMPUTER: Going down. ERNIE: Megan! Hey, stop! [BONES CRACKING] [GROANING] [ANDREW SCREAMS] Hannah, no. [ANDREW SCREAMING] MEGAN: No! Let him go! [GROANS] Megan. [SCREAMING] Megan. [GUN COCKS] [GROWLS] [GROWLING] [ROARS, THEN SCREECHES] [BODY THUDS] Andrew. Are you okay? [GRUNTS] MEGAN: Okay, come on. Hurry. We don't have much time. [GRUNTING] [] [BEEPING] [ELEVATOR WHIRRING] [ELEVATOR DINGS, THEN DOOR OPENS] - Go get help. - Wait. What? Megan. [] [GRUNTS] [ROARS] [GRUNTING] - [SCREECHING] - [MEGAN GRUNTING] [ROARING] No! Help me, please! [DEMON SCREAMING] [FURNACE DOOR WHIRRING] [] [THUMP] [THUMP] [THUMP] [DOOR OPENS] [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO] [INDISTINCT DIALOGUE] [OFFICER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] [] [] MEGAN: I'm 62 days clean... ...and I'm thankful for how far I've come. It's not easy. [GRUNTS] And I know I have a long way to go... but I'm feeling stronger every day. [FLY BUZZES] Nothing's going to stop me now. [] |
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