Vain (2025)

[bunniefuu]

(eerie music)

(eerie music continues)

- The dead woman rose

for a moment of agony

while she was lapped in the flame,

and her bitter scream of pain was drowned

in the thunder crash.

The last sight that I remember

was a vague white moving mass,

as if all the graves around me

had sent out the phantoms

of their sheeted dead,

and that they were closing in on me

through the white cloudiness

of the driving hail.

(eerie music continues)

- What happens at the end?

- They all die.

All of 'em.

- [Russell] Someone's got a lid, I'm sure.

- Yeah, I mean, maybe.

- [GPS] Keep left onto South Viking.

- [Russell] Elizabeth,

where we going tonight?

- Oh, we're going to the haunt.

We are going to Hotel Fear and Asylum.

I'm super stoked.

I go every year

and I always get the VIP passes

because very important person here.

My name is Elizabeth Pierce

and I run a YouTube channel

where I talk about monsters,

horror and mysteries.

Oh, there it is.

You see the sign, you see it?

Sorry, I don't know if you got that, but.

- [Russell] Yeah, yeah.

- We can, you know, swing

back around if we need to.

And we are getting closer.

- [Russell] Andrew

meeting you here tonight?

- Yeah, I'll have to check.

He's supposed to text me and let me know

whenever he's getting close.

- [Russell] Go ahead

and just tell me your,

tell me your name and what

do you do for a living.

- My name is Andrew McCoy.

I, for a living, I'm a

barista at a coffee shop,

Space Brew, gold star barista.

One of the better, you know.

I train a lot of the

younger guys coming in,

so not management, I wouldn't say,

but the responsibility of

management, kind of, you know,

like, so been there a while.

That's where I met Elizabeth.

But anyway, back to me.

I'm Andrew McCoy, that's my job.

I also manage a YouTube channel,

my YouTube channel called The Real McCoy,

which is a channel where we

go down many different rabbit holes,

explore and investigate

conspiracy theories,

you know, try to get to the bottom of

things that are true and not true.

Expose those that are

made up for, you know,

whoever is behind that.

(doors closing)

- [Russell] Just getting

the exterior shots.

You wanna do a little,

let's do your little

intro interview right here, huh?

- Well, I know, but like, we

should probably go in there

because we'll get better shots.

It'll be closer.

- [Russell] Well, I'm not gonna go in, so

I'm just gonna hang out of here.

- Yeah, but the footage,

it's gonna be too far away.

You can't even see the sign from here.

- [Russell] Okay, let's

do, can we do one out here?

- All right, yeah, sure.

- Okay.

What are we doing?

What are we doing here?

- So, today we are going to

the Hotel Fear and Asylum.

Really excited to review

these haunted houses.

It's gonna be the three of us.

So you are going in

regardless of what you say,

and,

sorry, one second.

Well, nevermind.

I guess it's just the two of us then.

- [Russell] Oh, I thought I, okay, well.

- Well, you have to go now, so.

(eerie music)

Oh God.

(eerie music continues)

- [Russell] How you feeling right now?

- I mean, I'm feeling good.

I had a blast.

I always have a blast.

They switched it up this

year, like they do every year.

And yeah, I would just say you need

to be a little bit faster

if you're gonna wanna

survive these horror movies.

Alright, time to get started.

And mic check, check,

camera one, camera two.

Fix the hair.

All right.

Here we go.

(strange music)

(strange music continues)

(strange music continues)

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- Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to Monsters and Mysteries.

It's me, Elizabeth Pierce.

But before we get started,

let's hop in the chat

and see how everybody's doing.

Oh, JoeRay90, good to see you again.

Oh, thank you, Twilight Lover.

I love this necklace too.

Oh, Black Glitter, I see

you in the chat again.

I'm telling you now,

you need to behave

or you're going to get

blocked from this account too.

Watching you.

And last but not least,

we do have one of our favorite

segments, Lost and Found.

Today, we will be viewing

a email sent in by

Sev from Kentucky.

It is UFO related.

All right, see what we got.

Hmm.

(no audio)

You know what, I'm saying real.

I'm, I'm saying real.

Seven, that was a great video.

I mean, the quality?

Yes, it was a little bit

grainy and, you know,

but the way that the lights were moving,

you guys can agree right?

The way the lights were

moving, definitely UFO.

So everybody give Sev a round of applause.

He has submitted a great video.

And remember, you guys

can submit your videos.

You could submit VHSs, film.

Send me what you got.

I will leave the link here in the chat,

or you can go to my homepage

and you can send it via email, via mail.

We wanna see what you got.

And thanks for tuning in, everybody.

I hope you have a wonderful night,

and I will see you next week.

- Dope.

- Da.

Oh, sh**t.

Hey.

- [Russell] What's up?

Well, stand right there.

- Okay, yeah.

- [Russell] And come on forward

- Right there, okay.

Is it okay if the, the sun's like that?

- [Russell] No, I'll see,

stand with the shade there.

Do me a favor, could you go

ahead and tap your microphone?

- Can you hear that?

- [Russell] Yep, you're, I know you well.

I know you've been a

Halloween horror fanatic.

Tell me kind about the history

about you and you know,

the history of Elizabeth.

- Oh, I, I don't know.

I just, I grew up loving Halloween.

It was my favorite holiday.

I always loved dressing

up as something creepy.

I wasn't like, you know, I

didn't wanna be a princess

and I didn't wanna be a fairy.

I was like, put me in a sheet

and cut some holes in it,

or put me in a bunch of blood, right.

(dog skeleton howling)

(no audio)

- Hey, what up?

- Hey, what's up?

I didn't know you were gonna here.

My mom let you in?

- Yeah.

- Good to see you, good to see you.

- Good to see you.

- Thanks for coming over.

- [Russell] Hey.

- [Elizabeth] Gotta,

brought your book back.

- Oh, good, I've got more, I've

got more reading for you, so

remind me before you leave.

- I will think about it.

Oh, he might need to mic you up.

- [Russell] Okay.

I'm not the guy to be on camera.

- [Elizabeth] Well,

it's a little late now.

- We'll get you your own YouTube channel

one day if you want.

So what are you getting right now?

What is it, what do you want us,

what are we just having a conversation?

What are we doing?

- Yeah, well, I mean,

he's following me around

for the documentary,

so this is part of the

usual flow of things.

- Okay.

- So just kind of

documenting my life.

It's like a reality TV show.

- Awesome.

- Yeah.

- I, I pulled out some, some

movies off my shelf for you.

So definitely take to

do a little research.

Vampire.

There's old VHS of "Nosferatu",

"Dracula", "Fright Night",

the best of the best.

This is a hack that actually

has nothing to do with

vampires, but it's cool.

It's a kinda witchy.

Just watch it, you'll like it.

- Okay.

- But yeah.

The more stuff for, for you too.

- Oh, homework.

- Homework, yes.

Are you going to do any conspiracy stuff?

Are you going to touch on the possibility?

- [Elizabeth] I feel like that's

more of your type of show.

I mean, I could throw like

a question or two in there,

I guess.

- See what the audience wants.

Let your audience decide.

- Are, I feel like--

- I'll push too hard.

I pushed.

- I feel like you're

hinting that you want me

to talk about conspiracies,

but you have your own conspiracy show.

I have Monsters and Mysteries.

- You're right.

- Monsters.

- You're right.

- And Mysteries.

We have a very special episode

of Monsters and Mysteries.

Today is the summoning of the

new monster of the season.

And before we do that,

we must first put to death

the outer space visitor that we had.

And

let the sacrifice commence.

(no audio)

Now for the summing,

(fire sizzling)

Let us say a prayer.

(no audio)

The book has spoken.

Andrew,

and the monster of the season is

the Vampire.

If you're new here,

go ahead and just subscribe

and like my channel so

you can keep up to date

on all the upcoming vampire content.

Thank you guys so much for joining us.

I love having you guys here,

and I will see you soon.

What'd you think?

- Great.

Oh.

- Yeah.

- It's hot in there.

- Sorry.

- That's all right.

That was great.

You did a good job.

- Thanks, yeah, I really, I like the cost.

Were you, were you not

wearing shoes the whole time?

- Yeah, I, I,

was it in frame?

I didn't even, I didn't

even think, but it's also,

he could probably not wear shoes.

- I, yeah, I, I guess, yeah.

You know what?

Will you here, come here

and you should get a shot of

me blowing out the candles.

It would be so cool.

- [Russell] And.

- Oh wait, okay.

Should I look up after I do it?

Or like, just look at?

- [Russell] You could

just look at the lens.

That's cool.

- Okay.

Ready?

- Yep.

- Let me do this one.

- [Russell] Yeah, go ahead.

(Elizabeth blowing)

- If people think YouTube is easy,

just turn on a camera, do your thing.

Not if you wanna be good at it.

- [Russell] So Elizabeth, here we are.

Take it away.

- Well, hi, my name is Elizabeth Pierce

and welcome to my crib.

On the right or my right,

we have the live station.

So this is where the front

of the camera magic happens,

where I film everything.

I watch my submissions.

I got my cool crystals over here.

Got my soundboard, my mic.

Over here to my left, we

have the transfer station.

With the transfer station,

I'll walk you through the

submissions that I get.

So I get mailed on very rare occasions,

eight millimeter film,

which I use the process to

get that transferred here.

I do get a lot of these DV tapes.

It's pretty popular submissions

since most of the time

people don't have the capability

of transferring these.

So I take care of that on my end.

And I also have the

capability to transfer DVDs.

And then I also have a

scanner for photographs.

Actually,

oh, there it is,

I received a photo submission

not that long ago in the mail.

I haven't opened it up,

but let's take some bets.

I'm willing to bet you $100

that this is a paranormal photo.

What do you think?

- [Russell] 20 bucks.

And

$20, and I say it's a UFO photo.

- $100 it is, gotcha.

We're both wrong.

It's

a letter from

Halvor1812 and

an SD card.

It's kind of strange.

- [Russell] Why is that strange?

- Well, I mean, if they were

gonna send it to me digitally,

I might as well just email.

It seems kinda

like a lot of extra work just to mail it.

There's a first for everything,

and I'm, I'm cool with it.

I like getting mail.

Hey everybody, it's Elizabeth.

So today we are out here, me and Russell,

and we are sh**ting an

updated intro to the channel.

I'm really excited

because we're gonna incorporate

something a little bit new.

We're gonna be using a

super eight film camera.

So I'm really excited to

see how that turns out.

Also super crazy.

You see that tree behind me?

We came across this creepy Polaroid.

It's got like five little

stick figures on it,

and they all look so scary.

Yeah, they're exed out.

- So interesting.

- Someone was trying to take somebody out.

So I, I thought that we

should cancel out the,

the badness that happened from there.

So I canceled that out.

Did a little spell.

We're all good to go,

so you never know what

you're gonna find out there,

but we do wanna look into some new stuff.

I wanna see some more

participation from you guys.

So let me know what you

want me to look into next.

Talk to you later.

Nature's beautiful and

scary at the same time.

So I feel very, the energy

here feels very relaxing

for the most part, minus the tree.

So someone's trying to

upset the balance here,

but I don't know, it just

feels, I like the open space,

I like the change in scenery.

We spend a lot of time, you

know, looking at screens

and I, I like to have that break.

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Welcome back everybody.

I hope you enjoyed this

week's horror lore segment.

I wanted to give a huge shout out

and thank you to our

sponsor, Creepy Popcorn.

Thank you so much, you're amazing

and I appreciate you so much.

And now we are moving

on to Lost and Found,

and we actually received some mail.

A huge thank you to Halvor1812.

We got a letter and a video today.

We are gonna start off

with this fancy letter.

Look at this cursive,

a lot of work was put

into this, so thank you.

All right.

"Like an actor finds their light.

I too must find my mark.

A shadow doesn't have much fun

stretching in the dark."

Thanks.

That was, that was great.

And we, we've got a video,

we've got a video to check out.

So let's, let's see what you got for me.

(no audio)

What are we,

what are we looking at, Halvor?

(no audio)

Okay.

(no audio)

You know what, I, I'm gonna play it again.

I think I missed something.

I don't, I don't know if

you guys caught anything.

I wasn't really sure what I

was was looking for in this one.

Maybe you can let me know.

(no audio)

I see this girl.

(no audio)

I got nothing.

You gotta throw me a lifeline, Halvor.

Let me know what you're thinking.

I'm not catching it.

I don't know, what do

you make of the letter?

And he was super cryptic in the comments.

You know, I kind of tried

to, I, I thought, you know,

usually when I talk to someone,

like about their submission,

they're usually really forthcoming,

but he just was very like, short,

kind of like this letter.

His responses didn't really

give me much information.

(uneasy music)

- That thing does look like a UFO.

- I know, right?

- Yeah.

- When I watched it the

second time, I thought, oh,

maybe it's a UFO video, but.

- Yeah, I had a lot of

promise in the beginning

that there was gonna be some,

some cool UFO footage from this one.

The thing is this is

that I, so I did go back.

I was watching when you were doing it,

and I saw the comments and

the people that were saying

that it, you know, that

knew the April Spencer girl,

looked it up, said that

she was a missing person.

She is a missing person.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- I,

I, I went and did a little more research.

Sorry, I need some water.

I did some research

and she's been missing

for quite some time.

I, like almost two years.

I found on her Facebook page,

you know, you could read

comments from family

and stuff like that where they--

- Yeah.

- You know, like they,

there's been no closure.

Like they've never found a body.

She's not turned up dead as

stuff I could read on there.

It, you know, it's, it's all sounds like

she was on vacation

and never came back and.

- Oh, wow.

So that might be the last footage of her.

- [Andrew] I think it is.

Yeah, which is, it is pretty creepy.

- Ooh, it gives me chills.

What do you think?

- Yeah.

Yeah, so I mean, it adds,

it's adds, I mean, it's weird

that this guy sent you this.

Did you bring that letter by the way?

- I did, I did.

- But there's the, there's like a,

this video is online at

other places by the way,

or at least I heard people reference it.

And there was some

videos that seemed to be,

what I noticed on her Facebook page is

there's other videos from her traveling.

It seems like she kinda, you know,

she documented her stuff and--

- Okay.

- I mean, obviously a lot

of people kind of do that,

but I, it was, it's just creepy that,

so this is the letter he sent you.

"Like an actor finds their light,

I too must find my mark.

Shadow doesn't have much fun stretching",

Halvor1812.

He signs it with his username,

his face, like his Google,

whatever, which is strange.

This is a weird letter.

And this is clearly a weird dude.

And, and actually I probably

shouldn't be touching this letter.

We probably, like getting

your fingerprints all over it.

I don't know that we should be.

- [Elizabeth] Oh no.

I'm like, what are you saying?

There's like poison on it?

- [Andrew] I didn't

think of that, but I'm--

- I'm dying.

- But I mean, if that guy

that sends you that thing,

what's weird is that he

doesn't talk about it.

If he had told you in the

like, yes, this is my friend,

can you help me find her?

The fact that he doesn't

reference anything,

that it's kind of just like,

here, take a look at this video.

And also, by the way,

what's weird is that I, I was

going through the comments

afterwards and, and before you

guys got here, he comments,

he commented like hours

later in the comment thread,

how did you enjoy my vampire video?

Yeah.

- Okay, so you're saying

he's a vampire now?

- No, actually I didn't think.

I mean, I guess my,

what I was saying is that

he's toying with you.

I mean, you're doing vampire

segments in the month.

It's clearly not a vampire video.

It's a missing person video.

But it's weird.

Like the guy, the fact that

the guy's messing with you

is what's a little creepy.

It's not a little creepy,

it's really creepy.

- Spooky.

- Your documentary's

getting better by the way.

(no audio)

- [Russell] Rolling.

Andrew, tell us where we're at.

- We're in Tom Devlin's,

makeup effects shop,

director of the movies

I was telling you about.

And come on, follow me back.

I'll introduce you to him,

kinda my boss.

I work for him occasionally,

clean up the shop.

Tom?

- Hey Andrew,

- How's it going?

- It's going good, man.

- This is Russell, the guy

I was telling you about,

doing the documentary.

- Oh, awesome.

Hey Russell, how's it going?

- The filmmaker.

- Thanks, man.

- [Andrew] Do you want me

to set anything up for you?

You got it?

You can, he's--

- Yeah, yeah.

- [Andrew] Well, I'll let,

I'll let you tell the story.

- Okay, cool.

- [Andrew] Do you tell

him about your movie.

- We're in production right now on a film

called "The After Dark".

"The After Dark" is a vampire movie

that it's kind of like "Lost Boys" versus

"Interview with a Vampire".

So you have these real regal

goth vampires that are,

have had it up to their necks

with these punk rock

loser degenerate vampires,

and they all go to w*r,

kind of a Romeo and Juliet story

mixed into the middle there.

So it's, it's been a ton of fun.

And we're doing some pickup shots

where we gotta get old Bobby Beamer here.

His head's gonna get lobbed

off with a skateboard.

He gets decapitated with a skateboard.

So I have this old blood cannon,

you know, we call

ourselves low tech effects,

so I make a lot of stuff

with water bottles and junk,

but this has been not used since,

I don't know, three years ago or so.

- And what, what did

you use that on before?

- I think the last thing

that this was used on

was when the head got severed on.

"Teddy Told Me To", there's

a, a movie I directed

where this guy gets hit

in the head with a hammer

and then when it comes off

it blows blood real big.

- I remember, I love that.

- Yeah, yeah.

- I love that scene.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah.

- I mean, it's gory.

And everybody loves the gore.

So I built this life cast of, of Robert,

and this is where he'll get hit right here

with the skateboard.

He'll be laying down

and when it comes off,

I ran a water bottle inside the foam here.

So I've got the nozzle on this side,

and I can hook our hose right to it

like it was on the other one.

And then within that hole,

we'll go to our bucket

of guts here and nerney,

we call these nerney,

this is just like stretchy guts here.

And we'll pack all that into the tube

and maybe a little bit of

this, some little stringy.

And then we'll fill

this with liquid blood.

And then we have this 300 PSI

soda fountain blaster.

Here, Andrew, hold that.

- Yep.

- Maybe point it that way a little bit.

- Sure.

- And then when, when we go

to hit it with the skateboard,

one, two, three,

you get that blood blast, boom,

it'll be--

- How about that?

- It's gonna be epic.

And then on action, blast,

and the head will fly

right before the skateboard

comes down into it.

Sometimes if we can't hit the timing right

the first time or so, we'll have it there.

We'll have the head already in place,

and then we'll do a reverse blast

and it'll look, look like

it went in and then out.

- So you're saying you, that that,

is that a proper way to k*ll a vampire?

- In our world,

any kind of head dismemberment will k*ll.

You get rid of the brain,

you get rid of the vampire.

- Similar to the zombie.

- Yeah.

- What's the be what do you

think is the most effective one?

- Turkey cutter.

- To k*ll a Vampire?

- Turkey cutter.

- Cut 'em right in the back of the head.

- No, I would, I,

I would say taking the

head off with sword,

to me

that's, that's gonna,

that's gonna k*ll a vampire.

- That's gonna do it?

People laugh at it

that the idea that the

vampires could exist

or be real is funny,

but it's becoming a lot more mainstream.

And I think the stuff that

Elizabeth's gonna do is,

is gonna help it.

She doesn't lean into it as

heavily as I do, I don't think,

but I mean, for sure.

But

it brings an awareness, you know,

the more views her stuff gets,

we're gonna talk about

it a little bit more.

She's gonna share some of the backstory.

If you come to my channel,

it's gonna have a deeper dive.

You're gonna learn a little bit more about

where and how they operate

in our world today,

the control that they have, the,

you know, it's,

I don't have all the answers

about, about vampires,

but I, I have a lot of questions

that can't be answered.

And that is something, you

know, that leads to a lot.

So,

I don't know.

- [Russell] So this

whole vampire conspiracy

that's been going on lately,

what's your take on,

what's your take on it?

Do you believe vampires are real?

- I'm, I'm on the fence.

There's, you know, plenty

of information out there,

but nothing that I've seen

that directly says that,

nothing to me has proven

that they're real.

However, people from all over the world

have talked about vampires

for a really long time.

So I could, I could be swayed.

This is a publishing in

the newspaper from 1929.

Vampires are everywhere now.

We've got movies, we've got books,

we've got the news talking about them.

Well, let me just read

this to you real quick.

How science can explain the phenomena

that made people believe in the undead.

Large fangs, hypersensitivity to sunlight

and blood around the mouth

could all be explained

by then unknown diseases

and natural process of decay after death.

So, I mean, that kind of gives

you the scientific portion

to like, to back up that they're not real.

But I mean, look at this,

this I thought was really interesting.

All the vampire spottings,

like the Americas right.

Here, vampires were

elegant creatures, right?

But then Romania and Germany,

they're, they have large wings

and they drain people's life forces.

And Asia,

the vampire victims tend

to be those of tragedy.

Just they, they're just so

different across the board.

And yeah.

- [Russell] Show me that mask there.

- That mask?

Oh yeah, this

is, I think it's Nosferatu.

- [Russell] You've been a vampire

for Halloween before then, huh?

- Oh yeah, 100%.

It's pretty fun.

I know how to put the

fangs in and everything.

- [Russell] I've seen those fangs.

- Yeah.

- It's--

- Yeah, I can do too.

The way you put them in

is pretty cool, actually.

- [Russell] That's awesome.

- [Elizabeth] What would you

say your favorite movie is,

that's the most accurate

portrayal of vampires?

- The most accurate portrayal,

well, I'd, I'd probably have

to say "Shadow of the Vampire".

I don't know if you're

familiar with that one.

Where it's about a filmmaker who is

so determined to make an

authentic vampire movie

that he travels to Hungary

and finds a real vampire

to act as a vampire in his

film without telling the cast

that the vampire is an actual vampire.

And so that vampire takes

advantage of the situation,

starts k*lling off members of the crew.

- So, you know, according to the myth,

they're unable to see the

reflection and mirrors.

Well, the reason behind that is

the myth derived from the

way mirrors were made.

So mirrors in the past

were made with a backing of silver.

Now apparently, not only are werewolves

susceptible to silver,

but also vampires were

so that's why they

couldn't see the reflection

in the mirrors.

However, now mirrors

are made with aluminum,

so maybe that's why

we haven't had any recent

reports of vampires.

So I do find that kind of interesting

and I'm, I'm gonna circle

back around to this too,

but I did also wanna address

a few other things that

I found through my research.

And I also found that

getting bitten isn't the only way

to get turned into a vampire.

There's a few other ways.

So sorcery, that sounds pretty legit,

committing suicide, contagion

or the weirdest one yet,

having a cat jump over a person's corpse.

What I really wanna know is,

do you guys believe in vampires?

Do you think they're real?

- Yep, I'm right now I'm trying

to pull up our award-winning list,

our award winner list

so I can match up the

labels and get these things

packed up and ready to go.

You might wanna like do like a little,

when you edit this together,

kind of cut out their names,

make sure that you're not getting any

of the addresses or anything like that.

You can blur that out?

- Yeah, I can do that.

- Okay.

I just, I mean, I, you

know, my main goal is

that they make 'em there safe.

That the trophy gets there,

gets in their hands

and they're, you know,

I don't even know where

all the other stuff was

'cause I wasn't at the

festival because I was sick.

(tape pulling)

Got everything.

When I first heard

about the Vampire thing,

it was intriguing to me.

And yes, I grew up knowing

about vampire movies

and, you know, the books and

comics even that I read and,

and all that stuff was fun.

But I didn't think that

there were, you know,

I kind of thought it was a

silly conspiracy at first too.

But the more you read about

it, the more you look at it,

there's some,

some hard to,

there's some hard to explain things.

I actually might need you to

gimme a hand in these boxes.

- Hey everybody, Elizabeth here

and I am at the famous Tom

Devlin's Monster Museum

and today I get to be a

part of a horror film.

It's going to be called,

what was it called?

- [Russell] I think it's

called "The After Dark".

- "The After Dark".

So we'll keep you guys posted.

- [Zoltar Machine] Your

fortune is mine for the telling

and yours for the hearing.

Come let Zoltar tell you more.

- Welcome to Tom Devlin's Monster Museum.

Our mission is to preserve

the art and history

of practical effects in film.

All the creatures are one of a kind work,

one of a kind work of art

created by Tom or part of his collection.

Feel free to take all the photos you want.

Just do not use a flash.

No flashes.

Got it?

- Got it.

- What's going on?

You finally made it down to the museum.

- Yeah, I am ready to film today.

You know, maybe--

- Are you excited?

- I'm excited 'cause you know,

I was kind of born for this.

It's my type of thing.

- Get to be in your first movie,

a vampire movie in the month of vampires.

- What can I say, I manifested it.

- You certainly did.

Russell, how are we doing today?

- [Russell] How's it going, man?

- Pretty good.

You're gonna love this.

- Pretty cool.

- Yeah, have you ever been here before?

You've never been here, have you?

- [Russell] Yeah, I haven't.

- Very cool.

Tom is, will be ready in

about 15 minutes for you,

for your scene, but if you guys want,

I can take you a little

run you through the,

the tour of the museum.

- Yeah, can I get--

- Show you some cool stuff.

Yeah.

- Can I get this first?

- Just you can keep, you can take it.

- Really?

Oh, thank you.

- I'll pay for it.

I'll buy it later.

But yeah, let's check it out man.

You're gonna love this stuff back here.

Tom's a a real filmmaker

so he's got like, you know,

real stuff from, you know what I mean?

It's from movies, not

just documentary stuff,

which is cool.

So let's go through the door.

- Oh, this way?

Oh, okay.

- Yeah.

Come on in.

- [Russell] Am I allowed

to bring the camera in?

- Yeah, you can bring it, just no flash.

That's the bathroom that way if you wanna,

if you need to powder up

or anything before we go.

- Ooh.

- Come on in.

- Spooky.

But did you get to set up

any of the sets or anything?

- No, this one when he made this movie,

I worked a little cleanup on it.

Got to do like, so I was there for some

behind the scenes stuff, but yeah,

I helped out with that one a little bit.

"The After Dark",

"The After Dark" scene 57 A, take one.

- Mark, all right.

Everybody at their one.

("Spirit of 97" by The Scarred)

It's okay

What mommy and daddy don't know

- Get outta there, Andrew.

Hold on, hold on, hold

on, hold on, hold on.

Back to one, back to one.

Andrew.

- I can't be here.

- Yo.

We're gonna slate.

We're gonna slate and

then you are going to exit frame.

And then she will come in on action, okay?

- All right.

- The music got me a little--

- That's fine, that's fine.

Let's slate bud.

Jesus.

- Can we just call it one again or?

- No, let's call it take

two and just say it.

Don't, just hold the two up.

Gimme a two on your fingers.

Okay, we're still rolling.

And Andrew.

- "The After Dark" scene 57A, take two.

- Mark.

- Mark.

- [Tom] Okay, get out.

Alright, are we ready?

("Spirit of 97" by The Scarred)

It's all right

It's okay

'Cause what mommy and daddy don't know

Will never hurt me

- All right

If I made you fall in love

Why do you look ashamed

- [Tom] Love it.

("Spirit of 97" by The Scarred continues)

Got other places left to go

Ooh

Can't give you all my love

And I know it probably hurts

- Keep your back against the wall.

You can't tell a soul

- There we go.

Yeah, you don't tell a soul

It's all right

It's okay

What your mommy and daddy don't know

Will never hurt me

It's all right

All night

Okay

What your mommy and daddy don't know

What your mommy and daddy don't know

What your mommy and daddy don't know

Will never hurt me

- That's a cut,

and a wrap on "The After Dark".

Andrew.

- Woo.

- Thank you my friend.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you for introducing me.

- [Andrew] Yeah.

- Now how have you been acting?

- [Russell] All right.

Research.

I love the,

love the choice in books.

- Yeah, I bor, I borrowed

them from Andrew.

Holy hell.

Oh my God.

Oh my God, come here.

Recognize her?

(no audio)

- Okay, hold on one second, I'm coming.

I just want to grab these

and put them out there.

Hold on, hold on.

All right, so here is okay,

you show me what you wanna show me.

- Yeah, so

yesterday Russell and

I were just, you know,

doing our thing, doing some research

and I found something cool.

So what do you think of this?

- Fun in the Sun

is a YouTube channel.

- Did you see anything that you recognize?

- [Andrew] Hmm, what is this?

- [Elizabeth] Okay, you know what?

Don't worry about it.

- Wait.

- I'm talking.

You can do your research on it later.

I would just say hold onto it.

You don't have to do it now.

- Is that April Spencer?

- Yes.

(eerie music)

- [Andrew] What is this?

- Exactly, that's what

we're trying to figure out.

So I need you to do your Andrew thing

where you do a deep dive into it,

because I've got a lot on my plate.

- [Andrew] This is creepy.

This is, okay.

- Yeah.

- This is like,

it looks like a bunch of travel videos.

There's two videos of her.

Holy sh*t.

- [Elizabeth] Yeah, I don't know exactly

what the whole thing is about,

but it's, there's some

good stuff in there, right?

- I will do a very deep

dive into this and,

and I'll let you know what I find.

- Cool.

- All right.

That's kind of exciting stuff.

Speaking of exciting stuff,

you got your Nosferatu mask there,

but I brought up a few more masks

that maybe you could

use in the photo sh**t

and maybe we could tease a little bit,

you know, what's next month gonna be?

Is it gonna be demons,

the ghouls, zombies?

- Hey everybody, Elizabeth here.

Thanks for tuning in.

We've got a busy day today.

I'm doing a photo sh**t.

So we've got the crew here,

we've got Russell on camera

and Andrew.

And just a a quick reminder,

we do have Andrew and Tony

coming up on our next upcoming video.

Can't wait for you guys to see it.

We will be discussing vampires.

Okay.

- Tony's coming in on it?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's wrong?

Wait, like did you?

- I just didn't, he always

just kills the fun man.

Like, he just, like,

he wants to debate me endlessly

and like acts like I'm, I don't know.

He just, I don't know.

We're doing something fun.

Tony's like something you bring

on like National Geographic

or I don't know, something like,

he's just gonna give you an endless

regurgitation of film history

and vampire history in film.

And whenever I start talking

about this stuff, he gets like,

he takes the fun out of it.

Lemme get that sassy

hip again you just did.

All right, there you go.

- Oh, lemme move my hair a little bit.

- Great.

Should just, I should just listen to you.

You know what you're doing.

- That was gonna come out kind of blurry.

I was moving, but you know what,

that's kind of a new thing now.

People kind of move in the photos,

so maybe it'll come out cool.

- [Andrew] Maybe we'll

catch a ghost in the back.

- [Elizabeth] Yes.

Oh my gosh.

- More vampire.

- So cool.

(uneasy music)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

- What are some of the most common

through lines in the vampire

world of like powers,

how to k*ll them, weaknesses, whatever?

- The appearance of death

and the fear of the sun

is a common thread.

That's why vampires are largely believed

to sleep in coffins during the day

or to burrow underground during the day.

Another, another common

belief through many cultures

is the ability for vampires to hypnotize

or mesmerize people to

somehow seduce them into

bending them to their will.

- I mean, imagine if you

did come face to face

with a vampire and you're

well equipped and ready to go

and all they have to do

is mesmerize you, you're,

you're pretty much, you

have no shot, right?

I mean, as long, unless they

didn't see you coming, so.

- Yeah, I mean, if they can,

if they can bend your will

to keep you from grabbing that smartphone

and hitting record,

I guess that's all to their advantage.

- Or, or they just say, give it to me now,

bend your will, and delete the photo.

You know, we don't know, like,

and forget about it.

I, you know, I joke around, but I,

but I do, I think that the mesmerizing

is actually potentially

one of their most powerful

or useful powers, I might say.

Because really when you think about that,

there's kind of endless possibilities.

They become more of a,

a puppet master of sorts where, you know,

what I do always think is, you know,

vampires are very manipulative

and they're very, you know,

able to hide in the shadows.

But I think that, that, that

power of the mesmerizing is,

is what makes that very

possible, you know.

- Yeah, I mean it would

be useful for anyone

to bend people to their will.

So why, why should a supernatural creature

of the night be any exception?

- All right, well again,

thank you so much, Tony.

It was great to have you on.

It was fantastic having you guys.

- Thanks for having us, Elizabeth.

It was great chatting with you guys.

- Yeah, thank you very

much, Elizabeth for having,

having us on again.

And Andrew, always a pleasure.

- Actually, we have one last question.

Okay, I'll bite.

What's your question?

How do you like my channel?

I love it.

All right, well that's all

the time that we have today.

Thank you guys so much.

Have a lovely night and I

will see you guys next week.

Wow.

So that confirms it,

live on the air.

That's his channel.

- [Russell] That's crazy.

- [Elizabeth] Yeah, I'm.

- [Man With Glasses] Dude,

you see this f*cking bat

out here on the water.

- [Halvor] I just flew into the dark man.

- I got bats, two bats.

Dude, it's beautiful out here.

But the bats whoa, hey camera guy.

Sorry man, I just kinda get

weird with cameras a little bit,

but

it's cool, Halvor.

We just met and stuff, so it's cool.

Did I hope I didn't mess

up your name, sorry man.

I'm terrible with names.

Terrible with names,

but we'll get you wherever you need to go.

I don't even know where that is quite yet.

(water lapping)

(people chattering)

(Elizabeth exhaling)

- [Russell] Is it this

bench or still gonna be at?

- I, I don't know, dude.

(people chattering)

Hey, where you at?

- [Andrew] Back past the, the grass area.

- Oh, okay, all right.

We'll be there in a minute.

Okay.

There.

Do you wanna just walk?

I don't know.

You coming?

- [Russell] Yeah.

(footsteps crunching)

(footsteps crunching)

(footsteps crunching)

- Hey.

- Hey.

- How are you?

- Good, you?

- Good, good.

Little creepy, but good.

Okay, that's good.

You already, you are recording already?

- I'm rolling, yeah.

- Okay.

Since we last spoke, I did

like a really deep dive on,

on the Fun in the Sun channel.

And I listed out all the girls'

names that I found on there.

There's 20, there's 23,

19 of them are dead, four

of them are still missing.

There's a credible connection and,

and I don't wanna even

start with this yet.

I'll, I'll go the, the point is

is that every one of

'em died the same way.

All of 'em have been found.

Their body's dumped somewhere,

completely drained of

blood, puncture where,

puncture wounds in the neck or the arm.

- [Elizabeth] Okay.

- And it, it's, I mean it's

obvious to me what that means.

- [Elizabeth] What are you trying to say?

- The guy, he, it's a vampire.

And I know it's crazy,

but every way I look at

it, it's, it's a vampire.

Like it's, doesn't make any other sense.

Why would they all have,

why would he drain blood?

How do you drain a body of

blood and there's no evidence.

Like there's no blood around them.

Girl dumped in the field,

puncture wounds.

- [Russell] I wanna see that.

- [Andrew] Another one, girl

in the field, puncture wounds.

Every one of 'em has it.

Most of them--

- I'm not filming that.

- Don't film it.

Film film us.

Don't worry about like,

every one of them though,

every single one of them,

not one of them doesn't

have the same thing.

Puncture wounds, drained

completely of blood.

The thing that makes me more convinced

that this is a vampire

is because if it wasn't,

the FBI would have,

they would be looking for a serial k*ller.

They would be talking about it.

The fact that they're

not talking about it,

that's, that's the coverup.

Like that's the, that's the

evidence that this is a vampire.

- [Russell] You've definitely

done like a good job

getting those, like putting it together.

But are they not searching

'cause they don't have the information?

Or are they just not putting it out there?

They're not searching,

- They're not putting it out there.

They're probably searching.

They probably know, but

they're not sharing it.

And I don't know what that means.

- [Russell] I think that's pretty normal.

I think that's normal.

- They don't share certain things.

- Investigation?

- No, well they,

they don't share certain things.

They share enough that we

already know that every one

of these victims has the same,

the same identifying puncture wounds.

If it was two or three of the victims,

I would say it's just whatever,

like, I wouldn't think anything of it.

But all of them, aside

from the missing girls

that they haven't found yet,

they all have the same thing.

And so I, to be honest

with you, I don't even,

and you know what else,

I can't even think about it,

that after the first day

when you put the video on your channel,

when I told you when we looked back,

it was hours later that he

made the comment and said,

"how do you like my vampire video?"

Like it was weird at the time,

you guys joked with me about,

I didn't even think, I hadn't even thought

of that he was a vampire, but I.

- Okay.

- He was playing with us.

- I thought whenever you originally said

that there was puncture marks,

I thought it was like,

they were like really big.

Like I didn't realize that

they were gonna be like

fang size.

- On their neck,

on their wrists?

- [Russell] We need to

take this to the cops.

- No, no, no, no, no

- No, we need don't.

- We need to put it on--

- We'll go there

with you, man.

- Yeah, definitely

put it on the channel.

We've gotta find like--

- Wait.

No, no, no.

- Look--

- It's not for the views.

You guys are--

- It's not about views.

And keep, get camera, record this.

Don't, like, this is important.

Okay, this is important and

also I appreciate your input,

but I, I don't really want it right now

to be honest with you.

Like, this is, we've,

if you're not gonna be part of the,

the solution to this.

- Man.

- [Andrew] No, sit.

Keep recording.

Keep recording.

- [Russell] Elizabeth, where are we at?

What are we doing here?

- We are at the police station.

Because you wanted me to give

the information to the police.

- [Russell] Well we wanted

to give the information

to the police.

- Sure.

Are you ready?

- Yep.

- You already know how this is gonna go.

Let's go.

- Vampires are at large, I tell you.

Vampires.

- Yeah.

- [Russell] Elizabeth.

Elizabeth.

(keys jingling)

(doors closing)

That went well.

- Are you serious?

- Malignant demons wish

you forth from their graves

in the dead of night

to attack their victims

and drink the blood from their veins.

- It's exactly like I told you.

They weren't gonna take me seriously.

They think it, that I'm making it up.

- [Russell] They took you serious.

They took the information,

they took a report.

- On it, whatever.

- [Russell] I think we did a good thing.

Give 'em time.

- Yeah, I guess.

Are you gonna film me eating again?

- [Russell] Okay.

- Are you recording?

I'm moving your camera bag.

- [Russell] You're

doing it on your laptop?

Elizabeth?

- Hey everybody, as you

know, it's Elizabeth

and I'm here today to share some news.

I know this is not how

you're used to seeing me,

and this is not the normal time,

but as you know, I've been

looking into April Spencer

and an alarming amount of information

is leading back to

her being either kidnapped

or k*lled by Halvor1812.

I don't know his identity yet,

but he's made it clear

that he knows something

or he's in some way involved

and

it's just, it's really important to me

to find out what happened.

And these families need justice

and the police aren't

doing anything about it.

So I'm here today to say

I'm gonna find you Halvor.

I'm looking into you.

So thanks for making yourself known

and if you guys have any

information that can lead to

helping me prove that it was him,

my contact info is on the about page.

And until then, I'll be signing off

and I'll give you guys an update

when I find out who it is.

(uneasy music)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

- Check, check, check.

Okay, I just got done watching.

I just got done watching some videos

on the Fun in the Sun Channel that

are videos of me, Elizabeth and Andrew.

Apparently Elizabeth has gone missing.

Andrew just gave me a

call a little bit ago

and sent me a link to the, some videos.

And I don't, no, we, we don't

believe it's a coincidence

that these videos are posted tonight.

Apparently Elizabeth's mom

got a hold of Andrew

trying to find her

and they thought she might be with me.

It's still too early to file

a missing persons apparently,

but I think they're trying

to figure that out now.

(uneasy music continues)

I hope this has a better

ending than what I fear.

(uneasy music continues)

That being said,

I'm gonna just wait for

Andrew's call or text,

let me know what's going on,

and then possibility

that hopefully we could find her.

(uneasy music continues)

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

(hand knocking on door)

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

Andrew.

- Hey.

- [Russell] What happened man?

What happened?

- Well, I was working,

I got notifications from the

Fun in the Sun YouTube channel

and he hasn't uploaded or released videos,

I don't even know how long.

Never, not since we've seen him.

And I think the last one

was months and months back.

But either way, a little

excited clicked on it.

And the last thing I was expecting to see

was videos of Elizabeth,

but that's what they were.

So the minute I saw that,

I knew something was f*cking wrong.

And I called her, I called her

and I texted her a bunch of

times and she wasn't answering.

And then I called her mom

and her mom said she hadn't

seen her for a while.

And so then I called you

because I thought maybe I was hoping

that maybe you guys were

still working on something.

- [Russell] But what were the videos?

- They look like the others, man.

There's, there's three

videos that, that, that,

that were uploaded and it's,

there's one of hers, it's like a selfie.

There's one that you and I are in the,

and then there's one that's,

the one's like, it's

a stalking video, man.

It's like,

it's,

and I want to like try to

imagine some more helpful,

that means that it's not--

(phone ringing)

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

Hey?

Elizabeth?

(crickets chirping)

What the f*ck man?

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music)

I just sent a location,

and it says

if we come alone,

come alone

and she'll still be alive.

(crickets chirping)

(uneasy music continues)

That's him man.

That's, that's, that's

f*cking Halvor.

How do you k*ll a vampire, right?

I mean that', or fight a vampire,

or survive a vampire?

I guess, luckily we have

18 miles to figure it out.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(engine humming)

(engine continues humming)

(engine continues humming)

- [Russell] You really

think this is gonna work?

(uneasy music continues)

- We gotta try something.

(uneasy music continues)

You just wait here, I'll be right back.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

- I just grabbed two.

(Russell speaking unintelligibly)

I got this,

this hammer is kind of sharp.

It's wood, I think.

This be, yeah,

I got this machete.

I didn't know what else to grab.

(uneasy music continues)

I think this is good.

Do you think I should grab anything else?

- [Russell] Dude, I mean.

- I don't know what the f*ck we're doing.

(uneasy music continues)

(engine humming)

(uneasy music continues)

I think this is, you think

once you let a vampire in,

that they leave until

they want to.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

sh*t.

She's behind this building.

There's like a, looks like

a small structure behind.

That's where her phone is at.

(uneasy music continues)

We just, just go.

Let's go.

(uneasy music continues)

(doors closing)

Grab the weapons.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

Are you filming?

Do you want to film this?

- Yeah.

Lets.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

- f*ck.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

I think something, somebody's in there.

- What?

- It looks like some,

I don't know.

Maybe not, all right.

I feel like something moved,

but I don't, maybe I'm just,

Jesus f*cking Christ.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

Her phone's in this building.

(uneasy music continues)

What the f*ck is this place?

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

Why is this gate open?

(uneasy music continues)

f*ck.

(uneasy music continues)

- [Russell] Hey.

Hey, just be quiet.

- Gimme one of those.

Do you have the?

- [Russell] I forgot them.

- What the f*ck?

(uneasy music continues)

f*ck.

(uneasy music continues)

- [Russell] Just be quiet.

(uneasy music continues)

- [Andrew] Come on, goddammit.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

Jesus.

(Andrew exhaling)

(uneasy music continues)

- [Russell] Hey.

Did you hear that?

(uneasy music continues)

- Is that,

is that her?

(uneasy music continues)

She's in here, she's.

(uneasy music continues)

(crickets chirping)

- [Russell] Andrew.

(uneasy music continues)

(uneasy music continues)

(dark music)

(dark music continues)

- [Andrew] Elizabeth.

Hey,

hey.

(dark music continues)

(Elizabeth moaning)

What are you doing?

Help her, man.

(dark music continues)

Hey, Elizabeth.

(dark music continues)

Fangs!

f*ck, where are you going?

(door slams)

(dark music)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music continues)

(upbeat music continues)

(upbeat music continues)

(upbeat music continues)

(upbeat music continues)

(upbeat music continues)

(no audio)