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A girl, considered the chosen one of her people, uncovers the secret of those who will soon make their sacred return.
During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.
In a village where girls are offered up as wives to a mysterious god, a beautiful but vain teenage girl seeks to replace her sister as the all-powerful god's wife.
Every year, in a small town overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, fourteen children are invited to the Skullpocket Fair, a carnival run by ghouls. But only the strongest will survive and be indoctrinated into the ghouls’ theocratic cult.
A PhD student travels to a rural Southern town to research a folk hymn for his dissertation. His research leads him to the discovery of a malicious cult that performs horrifying rituals.
A Louisiana boy educated by God-fearing Catholics is taught to abstain from masturbation and rather think of it as self-harm. Instead, he sets out on a tumultuous relationship with his sexuality, and comes to question whether or not he truly agrees with the church's teachings about what is and is not sin.
The crew aboard a freight ship are gruesomely murdered in a sacrificial and ritualistic manner.
An old man recalls the day he went fishing as a boy, not long after the death of his brother, and had a terrifying encounter with the Devil.
A filmmaker and his companion interview an old movie star, only to be caught in the middle of a conspiracy theory about her most famous scene.
When a young Black woman shows up at her crazy dead aunt's apartment in New York City with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, she finds none of the money she'd been hoping to inherit. Instead, in a hidden treasure chest, they discover a dead body, a shotgun, and a machete, sealed with a tempting offer from the Devil. The couple takes the deal and, hungry for blood, sets off to wreak havoc on the blue suits that have violently policed their communities for so long.
