Dan Turner does film restoration work for a museum of video history. His boss asks him to do a special restoration of an old tape that looks small enough to be an audio tape. It turns out to be a recording from the 90s that was taken on a hand held camera.
Melody Pendras is doing a graduate oral history of the Visser building in New York. It was built directly on top of another building that was destroyed by a fire. Why this particular building fascinates her we don't know. She's dedicated enough to pursue getting an apartment in the building.
Her efforts to interview the residents come to nothing until she talks to Jess Lewis, who is a teenager who was born in the building.
While Dan watches the restored tapes, his mind goes back to his family dying in a house fire while he was out walking the family dog. He sees a picture of that dog on Melody's bulletin board, and is somehow sure she has his dog.
Dan is restoring the tapes in an old concrete bunker of a building. In a remote area of the Catskills, there's no Internet and poor cell service. The isolation of the place creeps up on the viewer and Dan.
There was a scene where he was outside trying to call his friend, where it looked like someone in a red shirt was nearby, though Dan never saw him. So creepy!
As the tape continues and Jess talks about someone named Samuel just before having a seizure. The tape gets grainy and the shape of a man (?) alternates with Melody trying to help Jess.
Then Melody is screaming, that they took Jess, and several men in uniforms come in and out of the frame. She looks into the camera and says "find me!"
Really a rattling experience. The tension just builds and builds. I'll have to space out my viewing of the episodes.
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