Convulsion (2023)

[bunniefuu]

(bright upbeat music)

(gentle music)

- This is right.

(sings in foreign language)

(indistinct)

(sings in foreign language)

(Ethan grunts) (dramatic music)

I need to get a new coffee, pop.

I think it's fine, he speaks.

- Can't you tell that I had a bad dream?

Look at me.

- You look better.

I mean, I didn't know.

- [Ethan] You don't understand.

- Ethan.

- Yeah.

- Are we better?

Are we better?

Why is that doubt still linger.

- I said that I've had a bad dream.

Do you even care, Scott?

Do you even care about

what I'm going through?

- I'm not your psychic,

I'm not your therapist.

- Why don't you just tie a

chain around my neck and yank?

- That's a bit severe, don't you think?

I'm afraid to leave you here.

- I woke up, didn't I?

I'm fine.

Look at me, I'm fine.

- Bullshit, you haven't been fine since

what happened to you

out there in the desert.

This has been lingering on for a long time.

- I don't wanna talk about us.

- You think I can't hear what you say?

- My thoughts are too loud.

Please, let me wake up.

- Listen to yourself.

- I know you don't believe me, Scott.

The visions, the feelings,

my body aches, and no one can tell me why.

But you won't come to terms with my pain.

- I believe in science,

I believe in rationality,

and what happened to you

out there in the desert, okay?

There was blood all over

the place, Ethan, okay?

And the doctor says,

"The medication could trigger a reaction."

- I stopped taking that medicine.

- It made my teeth twitch.

- Why?

- I feel something else building.

It's like this pressure on my spine,

and so it's uncoiling.

And I feel something

crawling behind my eyes,

like, it can see through my eyes.

- Ethan, you're trapped inside yourself.

- Would you mind re-heating my coffee?

- Look, maybe you just need

to get out of the house, okay?

Take a trip, maybe get a spa.

We have mansion in Malibu.

I mean, you can call Debbie, Tina.

I mean, we have people that care about you.

I mean, let me help you.

- Just snap my fingers,

click my heels, right?

- You know what I mean?

You remember that dive

where I met those fetish tech investors?

Did you know that that bar

burnt down to the ground torched?

Someone just doused that whole place.

The thing is, there were

people installing wiring

on the third floor above the bar.

Fire trapped them all,

all of them, pure heat.

Can't even imagine the smell.

And just like that,

that place where we met Ron

for drinks was ash, melted skin.

Did you hear about that?

You wouldn't know, you never went with me.

I mean, maybe you did, but. (Ethan grunts)

- No talking!

Scott, I saw the pink

lights out there in the desert.

They were different.

They were different from stars.

The lights had a texture, a watery depth.

It was twisting in patterns like a screen

that I could see the screen of it all.

My heart hurts.

Oh God, my heart hurts.

My neck, my neck.

Scott, can I have a glass of water?

- Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, hold on.

- Thank you.

- There are people we can talk to.

There are people that could help.

- I don't know what it wants.

- It's fine, everything's gonna be okay.

- I don't just wanna be left alone.

I don't feel well.

- Can you please just

at least pretended I

don't annoy you, please?

- You don't know what helps.

None of them understand.

You don't understand.

- Why can't we just sit here

and have a morning breakfast,

like a normal couple do?

- God, my arm, it hurts.

- Look, you gotta take your freaking pills.

- I'm fine.

- Let me get you a band aid, okay?

(gentle music)

(sings in foreign language)

- Whatever you want from me, you can have.

I won't like you become me.

(Ethan grunting) (sings

in foreign language)

- Ethan, I understand

that this whole experience,

is a bit outta the way.

This is a bit unknown

in this whole experience.

You gotta tell me what's going on.

What did you tell them?

- We were 20 miles away from Vegas.

By then, it was nothing but desert,

desert for miles.

Nothing except the sound of the wind,

and Cindy driving.

And the lights went out, she stopped.

I don't remember the car

flipping over or the glass,

I just remember the sound of it all.

And even that just feels like a dream now.

The wind was cold, but I couldn't feel it.

My body was made of jelly, soft,

unwavering skin, undulating, convulsing.

I tried to call out to you,

but my voice can't reach you.

Everything was black like ink drops,

a black desert, black

mountains stretching out so high.

And then I was

surrounded by this pink light

from above, maybe.

Now, it was all around me,

stretched out for miles.

It was so distant.

I was miles away.

I was miles away from everything.

I tried to push, but I was

pushing against my body.

Like, it wasn't my body,

like, it wasn't me anymore.

It was like I was possessed

or consumed, Scott.

Jesus Christ, I don't know, the doctors,

maybe it was all a wound,

maybe all of this will heal.

But you, you and me,

I don't know how to love anymore.

It's like I'm being

gutted by this presence,

not his voice, but a sound,

a tremble, a quiver.

When I sleep, I just feel cold,

like, it's walking all over me,

like, it wants to become me.

- Ethan, I believe you.

I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.

- I'm not me anymore, Scott.

I don't know what is going on.

It's not right.

- Ethan, let me get you something

to eat before I leave, okay?

I believe you.

Everything's gonna be okay.

Everything's gonna be okay, okay?

Okay, I understand you, okay?

(sings in foreign

language) (Ethan grunting)

Ethan, I got you.

(sings in foreign

language) (Ethan grunting)

I got you, Ethan, I got you, okay?

Breathe, breathe, breathe.

I love you, I got you.

Ethan, I got you.

I got you, I got you.

I got you.

Breathe, breathe, breathe.

I got you, I got you.

- What's happening to me?

- I don't know, Ethan, I don't know.

I don't know, I don't know.

Breathe, I got you.

- You promise?

- It's okay, it's gonna be okay, okay?

We'll get over this and

everything will go back to normal.

- [Ethan] You promise?

- I do.

- Why are you looking at me like that?

- Did you feel something?

Were you pushing against me or something?

- It wasn't me.

Should I go back to the hospital?

- No, I'll take care of you.

- Leave me.

Just wanna be in the dark.

It's here.

I already feel it.

Just let me sleep.

- No, I'll stay here.

- I'm not the same

person you thought I was,

protect yourself, go.

- No, I'm your husband.

(upbeat music)

- Help.

Help, help.

Help me, damn it.

(upbeat music)

- Ethan, hello, are you with me?

You're coming back to me?

- Where did I go?

- You went deep inside of yourself.

What did you experience there?

- The convulsions, the aches,

but I was also here.

- You mean, here in my

office where we are now?

- Yes.

- Well, was I there too?

- Yes, but there was

another person with us.

- You were speaking with him.

He was telling you about what

happened to you in Nevada.

- I already told you

everything about that night.

Scott just wouldn't believe me.

- It's not unusual for couples

to get inside of each other's head.

Why do you think he doesn't believe you?

(gentle music)

- Do you believe in God?

- God, God, God.

Did you think that you had an encounter

with a spiritual being?

- I don't know what I believe in anymore.

Recently, I think, this whole

experience is just a message

for me to leave Scott.

- Oh, you know, have you

discussed this with him?

- Have you confided in him?

- Yes.

- Are you cheating on him?

- No.

No, not exactly.

- Other than here, are

you leaving the house?

- It's a struggle to just get here,

but I want to go outside.

They won't let me.

I want to return to the desert.

- You have become distracted, haven't you?

- I'm being held back.

- From what?

- I don't know.

- But let's find out.

Do you think this experience

that you had in the

desert has something to do

with your childhood?

- No, I grew up near the woods, out East.

I lived in a farm.

- Animals.

- My grandfather kept sheep,

but even then, the

farm just feels so empty.

There should be more

animals, but there weren't.

I remember the barn, the smell of old hay,

the rusted old machines.

From the barn, I could

walk out to the woods.

There's a field in the middle of the woods

and spring the dirt returned to mud,

and the trees are so thick and vast.

You could get lost in them,

drown yourself to the sound of trees,

wrestling with the wind.

I always find my way back

home through the dark,

back to the barn.

My grandfather once said that,

"If I keep going out to the

woods, I might find a unicorn,"

but I never found one.

(gentle music)

- But do you believe still in unicorns?

- If they exist.

- Let's go deeper now.

Get comfortable, I want

you to look at the screen,

look at the screen.

Just see yourself in it with new eyes,

with your original eyes, pure, fragile.

We often let ourselves get lost.

The world seems to

want us to get lost in it,

but we must be careful or we will end up

so far from reality that we

won't be able to find ourselves

on our way back.

- I'm not lost.

- Where are you?

- Where we've always been.

- Is it day or is it night?

- It's day.

But sometime has

passed, like, I'm not so sure.

- Do you remember Nevada?

Do you remember the desert?

- I remember the road and the red rocks.

- Let day turn to night.

- And it's nighttime.

- Are we driving somewhere?

- There's no one, there's

no one at the wheel.

We're driving flat, and

we're driving so fast.

- Are we going faster?

- We're plunging through the black desert.

- More, Ethan, more.

Where are we now?

- We're plunging through the black desert.

- What do you see?

- I see the pink lights.

- Pink lights, where are they coming from?

- They're coming from a

hand, the hand of a child.

- Who is this child?

- This child, it looks like me.

He's reaching out.

- What is he saying?

- He wants to release you.

- Tell him to take control.

(Ethan grunts)

Ethan, you have got to

tell him to take control.

You are the master of your own self.

You've got to take control.

You are the one who is pulling his strings.

You're the one who tells him when to appear

and when to vanish.

Do you understand that?

Who are you?

You need to come back to me.

I want to know where you've been,

who you are, and what it is that you want.

(sings in foreign language) (man screams)

- I remember that night.

It is not one entity, a

host of expressions,

formulas, converging, anticipating.

Do you know what it

means to fall out of love,

feeling of separation

to have every thread of

desire pulled from you?

Because I do,

and I'm showing it to you.

People think love can be controlled,

that it can be healed.

Love cannot be controlled.

It goes where it goes.

It goes where it goes, where it goes.

You don't love me, you only love yourself.

- It's not true.

Look at me,

that's not true.

- I still don't believe.

- Believe what?

Did you have some paranormal experience,

some brush with death, with aliens?

I mean, listen to what you're saying.

- I know what I went

through, and I know this.

Something has found its way inside of me,

something barreled its

way in, and it wants out.

- Listen, I can help you,

I can help you.

Let me help you.

- Leave me alone.

- [Scott] Let me help you.

- I don't want your help.

- What do you need?

- I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I don't want this,

I don't want any of this to hurt you.

Scott, please just listen to me.

Just leave, just go,

before this thing, before it takes over.

- I can't leave you.

(dramatic music) (Ethan grunts)

Ethan, what is happening to you?

What is happening to you?

- It's the blood test.

I see it, I see the night.

I see the lights, the pink glow.

It's at my throat, at my voice, my ears.

They're listening.

They're trying to push through.

They're trying to push through the walls,

through the windows.

Scott, we have to seal this place out.

We have to protect ourselves.

I've seen them, I've seen

them in my dreams at night.

Scott, please.

Please help me.

- I'm gonna help you, I promise you.

- I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

(gentle music)

- I'll keep you safe.

- It may already be too late.

- It's not too late.

There are other people

other than your therapist

that can help you.

- I'm done with him.

- I can help you.

You must be Dr. Heights.

- Barb, please.

He's inside.

- May I come in?

- Yes.

- This old doctor suggests quarantine

- in case he...

- The convulsions.

And where is that old doctor now?

- [Scott] He disappeared.

- So odd.

I felt him even outside,

the energy is thick.

I'm gonna need a moment

to process the situation.

Has he told you anything else?

- Nothing more than what I

told you already over the phone.

- He hasn't diagnosed schizophrenic,

no other conditions I

should be made aware of

that you might have forgotten to mention?

- No, nothing.

Pretty much everything I told you already.

I mean, it all started in the desert.

It's all we know.

- I see.

Would you mind if I

measured the weight of the air?

- Of course not.

Ethan's resting, do you

want me to go get him?

- No, let him rest.

I need to analyze the house.

I like to start with an EMF reading,

so I can determine the amount

of liminal space I'll be entering into.

- We've been here for about a year.

You do Eastern medicine, right?

- I start Eastern and move inward.

You own this house?

- Yeah, we bought this house,

but we don't know who lived here before us.

It's all we know. (Heights shushes)

- Something stares.

Sorry, we must respect the spirits.

They operate on their own accord.

It's imperative we try to understand them,

their purpose before we

rush to any conclusions.

- I'm gonna go make a sandwich.

- Go for it, man's got to eat.

Okay.

Yes, here we are.

I know you're here.

I can feel you already.

All I ask is that you communicate.

Please reveal yourself.

Please, please reveal yourself.

Come on.

What rooms are that way?

- Our bedroom.

- And he's in there?

- He's resting in there.

- I've only felt this

level once years before.

I need to isolate the force,

and then establish a link with it.

Go back to the kitchen.

- Can you get it out of him?

- It's never as simple as you'd think.

(dramatic music)

Hello, Ethan.

I'm Dr. Heights, your husband

contact me to help you.

- May I approach?

- Yes.

- How are you feeling?

- Tired.

I was dreaming.

- Tell me what you saw.

- A field, a path that

leads out to the woods.

- You're in pain.

On a scale of one to 10, how severe?

- No, this, it's a different pain.

- Your husband told me

you were in an accident.

- It's like, I was led to

discover something out there.

That discovery came by way of a car crash.

- A concussion, you were

found stumbling in the dark.

- I was drawn to the desert.

- Aren't we all, you

were alone in this crash?

- No, Cindy was driving.

- And where is Cindy now?

- Cindy's passed over.

- You know, Ethan,

sometimes we don't remember things

that are exactly truly aligned to reality.

- I've become a vessel.

- Of what?

- Of something that

lies beyond the horizons

of our existence.

- You're haunted.

- Perhaps.

I can't feel my way around it.

It won't let me.

I'm stuck inside myself.

This thing has figured out

how to keep me in the dark.

And sometimes it...

- Sometimes what?

You can tell me.

- Sometimes it takes over my body.

- In a painful way.

- It's pushing through me,

like, it's trying to connect

- to something out there.

- Out where?

- In the desert where it first entered me.

- Okay, you're a conduit.

Do you mind if I try something?

- [Ethan] Okay.

- I'm gonna put my hands on you, okay?

- Will it hurt?

- It might, but let's see

if you and I can work out

these kinks together, shall we?

I wanna see how this force operates.

- Okay.

- I'm gonna start here.

Sorry if my hands are cold.

Okay.

- It's warm.

- Yes, that's the energy.

Okay, Ethan, I need you to push down,

down into your lower stomach.

That's where the energy tends to gather.

We can get a reading of it from there.

Okay, here we go.

I need you to go faster now.

Gotta move this stuff around.

Push harder, lower into your lower stomach.

There you go, oh, wow.

I can feel it in my

fingers, it's beautiful.

Okay, all right, hold on.

Don't stop, okay, don't hold back.

There you go.

Let it out, Ethan.

Push, Let it out.

Let it out.

Don't break your concentration.

Stick with me here.

Come on, I need you to go harder, lower.

Good, keep going.

You've got this, come on.

I have to see this in action, push harder.

I need you to push harder.

Come on, Ethan.

Stay with me here.

We can get this.

Don't let me lose this.

(both screaming)

You're cursed.

You're cursed, and this is beyond me.

What did you do to me?

Who, what are you?

- What are you?

- I almost died.

I almost died, I felt it, my heart,

the blackness, the pitch, blackness.

- No, you did that to yourself.

- No.

- It only communicates

to what you bring to it.

- It's you.

This isn't right.

Nothing is right here.

Nothing is right here.

God help you, Ethan.

- Leave.

You said you could help

me, but I feel you now.

And there is nothing you can do about it.

Go and don't come back.

- But...

- I said leave!

- What happened?

- Your husband is possessed.

I suggest you contact someone else.

This is beyond my expertise.

I appreciate the business and everything,

- but I just...

- No one can help,

but that's why I called you.

- The paranormal doesn't

operate in rational ways.

I really hope you find someone to help you,

but please don't contact me again,

and I'll see myself out.

Good luck.

(gentle music)

- Let them come.

Let them all come.

- Who are you talking to?

- It's getting stronger.

- You wanna go outside?

You don't have to stay inside.

- I do, out there.

It's too much.

It's all so much.

Besides, at least we can think in here.

- Screw this.

I wanna get a specialist.

I'm gonna call Pat.

Pat knows people that are very high.

We can fix this.

We can make this better.

We can go back to the way things were.

- Oh Scott, can't you see?

This is how we are now.

Things are just right.

- They're not, you're in pain.

- The pain teaches me things though.

It helps me understand my purpose.

- What purpose?

- We all return home at some point.

I need to lie down.

- Okay, okay.

- Pat, hi.

I need a favor, it's Ethan.

I need your help.

(gentle music)

- Hello.

Are you there?

(dramatic music) (Pat screaming)

- Hey, did Pat send someone?

I thought it heard someone.

- No, I don't think anyone came.

- What's that?

- What?

- That bag.

- I don't know.

- It's not your bag, I mean...

- No, no, I found it outside.

I was curious.

- Let me take a look at it.

(fist thuds)

- Let me show you what

real of love is, Scott, true love.

Love that lies beyond the soul.

Are you listening?

Do you see the things that I see?

Are you trying to become me?

Are you trying to k*ll me?

I just wanna breathe.

I just want peace.

Please, please don't harm me.

(dramatic music) (Ethan pants)

(indistinct)

(door knocks)

- [Scott] It's Scott.

(door knocks)

(dramatic music)

(door knocks)

- Yes.

(dramatic music)

(door knocks)

Leave me alone.

(door knocking)

(upbeat music) (phone ringing)

(indistinct)

What did you do to Scott?

Where is he?

(indistinct)

Don't you hurt him.

(indistinct)

Where is he?

(indistinct)

(Ethan screaming) (upbeat music)

(indistinct)

- [Scott] Ethan, can you hear me?

- Please help.

- Scott.

(upbeat music)

(indistinct)

(upbeat music) (Ethan screaming)

(indistinct)

Must I face this?

(indistinct)

It's always then this way.

Scott.

We need to leave earth today,

and reunite with our primal bodies.

- Oh, okay, how do we do that?

- Oh yeah, I have connections.

- That sounds freaking crazy.

- Let's not argue.

Trust me.

- I hear you.

- I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

(upbeat music)

(indistinct)

No, I'm done with you.

(upbeat music)

(dramatic music)

Engage the interstellar transmitter.

- You know how to pilot this thing?

- Don't worry, they showed me.

- Just wanna let you know,

whatever happens to us,

just wanna let you know I love you,

and I wish I was there with

you in the desert, but I wasn't.

- And I regret that.

- Don't regret.

It's not your fault.

We'll make it through this.

- We're in space.

Where are we headed?

- To the depths of our spirit.

Hold on, no matter what

happens, stick with me.

Hold on to yourself,

and know that whatever

strangeness occurs, it will pass.

I'll see you on the other side, Scott.

Let's do this.

Ready for departure.

10, nine, eight, seven, six,

five, four, three, two, one, blast off.

Stay right there.

- What's that noise?

- We're locked onto the station.

- Okay, we're in space?

- Engage, gravitation or assistance?

Okay, the gravity has

been set to earth mode.

We should be able to move around.

Hold me.

- What's it?

- Do you hear that?

- Yeah, I do.

- Hello.

- Ethan, I've been

waiting for you to arrive.

- What is this place?

- Supreme peace.

The core of your very being.

Would you like to proceed?

This must be your husband.

You must trust each other.

It's the only way the

healing process will work.

Please consider if you have any doubts.

- Ethan, I don't wanna die.

- You'll not die.

You'll meet God,

whatever that means to you.

- Well, that's heavy.

- I believe this is the right thing to do.

I believe they have led me here, and we,

you and I, we need to do this.

There's no turning back now.

- Ask yourself with clarity,

with purity and without fear,

can you do that?

- [Ethan] Yes.

- So...

- You'll heal me,

- you'll heal us?

- Yes.

If you believe until the end.

You, sir, kneel before your husband.

This will be over before

you even realize it.

And the pain that you feel will be the pain

that your body and your mind needs

to fully be healed of this alien presence.

Go inside yourself even one last time.

And when you awake, I'll be gone.

There'll be much closer

forces in this world,

entries of other imaginations,

spaces between our own,

and these forces, they're always trying

to penetrate the soul,

but you can't let them.

- What if the pain is too much?

- [Scott] I'm here for

you, I'll take care of you.

- I feel the black desert creeping in.

I feel a tremendous force.

It's too much.

- If that's the case, then scream louder.

We're the only souls here.

Let me feel you on the inside.

Let me release this force from your body.

(both screaming)

It's very powerful.

(indistinct)

Release it.

Still your force.

(Ethan screaming)

You're released, you're free, it's gone.

You're both one again.

(upbeat music)

(dramatic music)

- Ethan.

Where, time?

I can't feel time, our time.

Are we dying?

- We must destroy our old selves, Scott,

and discover our love.

- [Scott] But I...

- Don't speak.

We must pass beyond words.

- But I've always loved you.

- I know, but I haven't

loved you like you loved me.

Now, I want to show you

how our love can grow.

- I promise to love you.

I can show you.

- The realm of silence is

upon us, final convulsion.

Look at me.

I'm healed.

(indistinct)

(Ethan screaming)

(bright upbeat music)