Flatwoods

Flatwoods is a 2021 sci-fi horror movie directed by Astral-New-X, loosely based on the "Flatwoods Monster" urban myth. It's also the first film in the Cryptid Cinematic Universe.

Plot
In 1952, a kid plays in his house's backyard flying a kite, but he accidentally releases the kite, which flies away. His mother hugs him and says "Don't worry. It will return one day". The next day, a girl is babysitting a kid in a lake. She reads a telegram from the mother, who ordered her to take him to a lake due to their birthday. While the kid is playing in the woods, the girl takes a bath. However, she starts witnessing how the water turns black. A creature's claws and long arms pop up of the lake and after shredding the girls skull, drags her remains underwater. The kid hears her scream and runs to the lake, which has been polluted by the black water and her blood. He trips and falls. He briefly rises out of the water before the deadly claws, covered in the black and red moist, emerge from the water and drag him away.

At night, a group of teenagers (Edward Kaine, Fred Kaine and Tommy Ryder) are hanging together in a truck when they see a red light-object flying on the farm of their neighbor, Gerald Bailey. The object is forming a line patron. The kids take their bicycles and flee, decided to report this events. Edward sees a mysterious figure in the forest. Alongside Fred, he departs from the group to see the creature, but gets affected by a fog. Escaping, the two kids take their bicycles again and ride alongside Tommy. They end up in the local sheriff office. They report the incident and present to the sheriff the images they took with a black-and-white camera. Tommy shows the photo of the red-light and it's patterns while Fred shows two photos from the woods. One photo shows nothing, which surprises the gang, and another one shows the creature's shadows.

The next day, the police finds the polluted lake and closes it, while the girl and the kid are declared missing. At the May's house, a police inform brings an explanation: The red light was a meteor seen through multiple states. Edward tries to argue the meteor had been switching directions and making a line pattern, but there is no evidence, while the creature was just a barn owl. We meet the May family's backstory: Fred has a mental disease and constantly suffers from strokes. His mother constantly drugs him. Edward is his only friend, who once teaches him to use the assault rifle their deceased father owned. Edward is also friends with John Greenwood, a young adult obsessed with conspiracy theories and suspects the Johnston Tower, a radio tower located at Flatwoods's end, induces psychological effects on the population.

Greenwood also believes the government uses the area as a test place for human experiments, mentioning the case of a segregated african american community who was induced with smallpox. A parallel plot shows the story of Tommy, who belongs to a poor, criminal family. After being beaten by his father, who also beat his mother. She takes him to the local hospital, where he's attended. Outside the hospital, the Flatwoods Monster reveals itself: Crawling to the ground, it devours a dog alive, without it's face being seen. The monster stays outside the hospital's window, where a surgery is being performed. The patient is induced with anaesthesia and sees the monster before falling asleep. The monster finally craws into the room and slaughters the doctors and the patient, shown as the door, windows and walls are splattered with blood, and the light flickers.

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Cast
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