Nothing Behind the Door
Three bank robbers choose a forbidden building on Mount Wilson to hide their loot and discover that the warning about there being nothing inside is horrifyingly literal.
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Three bank robbers choose a forbidden building on Mount Wilson to hide their loot and discover that the warning about there being nothing inside is horrifyingly literal.
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An exhausted Hollywood horror writer working through New Year's Eve finds the boundary between his gruesome screenplay and the world around him beginning to disappear.
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