Haunt

Harper is going through Halloween weekend with bruising on her face that she covers with makeup and deflects questions about. She is in a relationship with an aggressive, controlling boyfriend but has not yet found the decision to leave. She goes out with a group of friends to an extreme haunted attraction on the outskirts of town — no visible permits, staffed by performers in unsettling masks, operating on a road that is not on any map they checked.

Inside, the haunt is extraordinarily committed. Rooms designed to genuinely terrify, performers who make physical contact, a building whose layout refuses to resolve into anything that leads clearly back to the entrance. When a friend is injured for real, they understand: the people in the masks are not performers. The haunt is a killing operation. The participants were selected because they are young, untraceable, and willing to go somewhere unofficial on a night when everyone disappears into costumes.

The group is hunted through the facility by operators who are methodical and practiced. They die one by one in rooms built for exactly this. Harper's history with violence and her well-developed instinct for reading dangerous people make her more capable than her boyfriend's treatment of her has led her to believe she is. She fights where others freeze.

Harper gets out. She kills the people who need to be killed. She drives home and parks in front of her apartment. Her abusive boyfriend's car is there. She sits in the dark for a moment with a new understanding of what she can survive and what she can do. The film ends before she goes inside.