Taglines: You can forget your past. But your past won’t forget you.
Jessie is a horror writer with all-too-familiar writer’s block. When her boyfriend Brian suggests a vacation to the cabin her late aunt had left her, she instead decides to head there alone. She believes it will give her the inspiration she lacks for her writing.
Early on, before even arriving at the cabin, the townspeople give Jessie strange, fearful looks. George is the caretaker of the cemetery and helped Jessie’s late aunt whenever and however he could. Jessie had called him to make sure the cabin was still available. It indeed was, and he took Jessie to it and promised to check in on her now and again.
After cleaning the cabin up a bit, Jessie notices a decrepit, dilapidated doll lying on the floor of a closet. She places it on the shelf in the closet and goes on about her business. The doll somehow finds its way into Jessie’s path, and does so many times thereafter.
One day, while out on a run, Jessie comes upon a young girl humming in the woods. She looks at the girl, smiles, and then goes home. Soon, there’s a knock at the door. It’s the little girl. Her name is Leah and it turns out she knew Jessie’s aunt well. After talking Leah into walking to the store in town with her, Jessie learns that her late aunt talked about her all the time to Leah.
While in town, Jessie comes across yet another resident of the small town; Evelyn, her late aunt’s nurse. She, too, looks at Jessie with a look of dreadful memories. She tries to scurry along home, but Jessie stops her, trying to find out why she’s been looked at so fearfully. The nurse said very little, but mentioned that evil had something to do with her aunt’s death — not an accident, which is what the official cause had been.
After yet another crossing of paths with the ugly doll, Jessie notices a tag on the back of it. It has the name of the store it was purchased at on it. She gets the address for the business and finds her way to it.
The owner had been there for nearly four decades. She talks Jessie into buying a small oil-burning lamp filled with concentrated holy water. While there, Jessie asks her about the doll and inquires as to whether or not the woman remembered it.
She remembered it, alright. She wished she had never taken it in or sold it. It had been purchased by a woman whose house had burned to the ground along with all occupants inside. All that had survived had been that doll. Nothing and no one else had. The conversation ended shortly thereafter as the store owner no longer considered Jessie welcome there. She couldn’t get back to tending the store fast enough.
The Sacred (2012)
Directed by: Brett Donowho
Starring: Heather Roop, Jordan Belfi, Brighid Fleming, Sid Haig, enny O’Hara, Suzanne Owens-Duval, Catherine Grimme, Katie O’Grady, Angel McCord, Cora Benesh
Screenplay by: Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke
Production Design by: Tyler B. Robinson
Cinematography by: Edd Lukas
Film Editing by: Kayla Emter
Costume Design by: Chapin Simpson
Art Direction by: John Kirkley
Music by: Didier Rachou
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Phase 4 Films
Release Date: June 7, 2012
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