Evil Sublet (2023) Movie Script
Okay, so my wife and I just
finished watching "Psycho,"
and now she's taking a shower.
Who takes a shower after
watching "Psycho," right?
So I'm gonna play a little trick on her.
Watch.
(whistling in shower)
(wife screaming)
(thud)
- Oh my God!
No! No!
[Child] Oh my God,
what did you do to Mom?
It was an accident! She just slipped!
I'm calling the cops!
Wait, wait, wait, just!
- Let go of me!
- Just wait!
(Child screaming)
(crash, bones snapping)
Oh my God! No, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
What have I done?
Listen people, and listen well
I've got myself a little story to tell
The kind that make you sweat
Turn you into wreck
Make the hair stand up
on the back of your neck
Something's happened we cannot explain
But they're happenin' just the same
Like you wake in the night
With something strange in your bed
You tell yourself it's nothing
It's all in your head
I've got a good
feeling about this place,
and it's fully furnished.
Why does the listing say it's "evil"?
That's the East Village.
You know, it's just an abbreviation
like SoHo, Dumbo, Tribeca, the eVil.
You know, we could get
more space in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's priced out now too.
Dude, what do you got
against this place anyway?
- It's too cheap.
- Oh, what a great problem
to have. What will we do
with all of our extra money?
Alex, there's got to be
something wrong with it.
Nobody rents a three bedroom
for two grand in East Village.
The eVil, get with the times, Ben.
(ominous music)
Hi, Ben, hi, Alex. I am
Parker. So good to meet you.
So you're here for the eVil three bedroom?
- Yeah.
- Awesome, let's go look.
(eerie music)
(door creaking)
Now the entrance isn't so inviting,
but it gets better, I promise.
So each unit has its own floor,
and we're going to Number Two.
But isn't this the third floor?
Oh, yes, but there's no
unit on the ground floor.
So Number One is one flight
up, Number Two is two flights.
It's very French.
Ooh la la!
So it's a fully-furnished three bedroom.
Doesn't get a lot of daylight.
(gasps) Ooh, I think we just
found our dream apartment.
Mmm! And it's near three subway lines,
has two full closets...
- Get out!
- [echo] Get out!
- an eat-in kitchen.
- Wow.
- What's wrong with it?
Oh, you know, it's an old building.
The lights flicker sometimes,
the hot water runs out too fast.
Oh, and it's supposedly haunted.
The last tenant went crazy,
killed his wife and child,
chopped up their bodies,
buried them in the garden,
and blew his brains out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
There's a garden?
- There is!
- No, no!
Go back to the other thing.
- Oh, I know.
I was kind of freaked out
about that myself at first.
But yes,
there is a 432-square-foot eat-in kitchen
with a gas stove.
- No, no, no, the murders?
Oh, that. Yeah, well, he
claimed it was an accident.
He only cut up and hid the
bodies because he panicked.
Look, the listing did
say, this place is evil.
Now, the lease holder
insisted I'd be up front
about how a lot of the
previous tenants came to
horrific ends.
- A lot?
I like to say don't focus on the rumors.
Focus on the rooms.
They're high ceilings.
High enough to hang your large artwork.
- Or yourself.
- Whatever floats your boat.
(laughs) Let's go see the kitchen.
New fridge, new stove, big oven.
Oh yeah.
Look at all this storage space.
So the garden is out here.
Just under the fire escape.
(children playing)
Perfect place to get
away, clear your head.
And it's shared with the
other families in the building?
Three other units.
They're all currently vacant.
Wait, we're the only ones here?
The other apartments are empty?
Don't get too spoiled.
In this market, the other
units will fill up soon.
This room's set up as an office,
but it could be another bedroom.
Master bedroom.
Oh, that's kinda cool. Wow.
Oh my God, what is this?
A lot of the past
tenants left in a hurry.
So people's stuff just got thrown in here.
Before or after they were
hauled off to the sanitarium?
No, the last tenant that happened to,
they got rid of his stuff.
I could have my recording booth in here.
I don't know. It doesn't feel right.
I totally get it,
I can show you other
listings in this price range.
In Manhattan?
No.
But East New York, Gravesend.
Are you open to the Bronx?
So it's just first and last month's rent,
one month's security deposit,
my fee, and the credit check.
It just amounts to $8,100.
Do you take credit cards?
No.
Lorne, we're so late.
Please don't stop to give out charms
to homeless people again.
You're so mean. When
did you get so mean?
I'm not mean.
Oh, excuse us, sorry.
Alex!
I had to stop and buy
this good luck charm
from a homeless man.
I think if it was really lucky,
he would've been less homeless.
But we need all the luck we can get.
Look, the best part
about it, it's a whistle.
Don't put your lips on it!
(whistle screeching)
(mysterious music)
So I found him in a secondhand store
and I decided to bring him home.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I thought maybe I could learn
a ventriloquist act or something.
Not a typical 21st century career
or hobby choice, but okay.
- I know, right?
So I put him in a rocking
chair opposite my bed.
You have seriously never
seen a horror movie, have you?
No, why?
So when I woke up,
there was blood running out of his mouth,
and all my roommates were dead.
And then
I woke up for real.
- Oh, Jesus!
No, you don't understand.
I've been having nightmares
like this every night.
They said you deal with
this sort of thing.
- Who?
- Yelp.
Okay, what you have here is
what is commonly referred to
as a creepy fucking doll.
And you're having nightmares
because it's fucking creepy.
There is nothing supernatural
about this stick of wood.
Can you just test it to be sure?
There's not really any kind of...
No!
They say that you can sense things.
My husband is not some circus freak here
to amaze and amuse you.
Okay, technically, but...
Look, if there's nothing
supernatural about it,
then there's nothing
to worry about or fear.
But if there is, shouldn't
I be the one to know?
- It can't hurt, Ned.
- Lorne...
Thank you.
(suspenseful music)
Babe?
Oh, you used him as a sex toy?
Oh, no! You really...
No wonder you're having nightmares.
- I'm having nightmares.
- Oh, come on.
It was one time!
- Get out!
Wait, wait, wanna see
my ventriloquist act?
- No!
- No!
This is my hit song, it's
called "Saltwater Taffy."
Get out!
Who wants a saltwater taffy
I've got a saltwater taffy
Hey, hey, hey, who
wants a saltwater taffy
I've got a saltwater taffy
(mysterious music)
It's crazy. We can't
afford to stay in our place,
but we also can't afford
to move to a cheaper one.
So you are a computer
programmer, and you are an actress.
Voiceover artist.
Well, we certainly can
give you an overdraft loan.
There will of course be a
fee and a 21% finance charge.
21%? What's the interest
on our savings account pay?
- 0.01%.
- Why is it so much cheaper
for you to borrow money from us?
We obviously aren't
borrowing money from you.
Isn't that the deal?
Like, while you're holding our money,
don't you speculate
with it in a bunch of...
What's it? Dirigibles?
- Deliberatives.
- Derivatives.
- Thank you.
- And we are not.
- And you know what?
We actually would have the money
if you didn't charge us a fee
every month for the privilege
of letting you borrow our money.
The fee is because you
don't have more money
in your account.
- Oh, Ben, that's it.
We should have just had more money.
You really should keep
more money set aside.
I mean, especially at your age.
Okay, you know what?
We might not have made
all the best financial decisions so far,
but at least we haven't needed
the taxpayers to bail us out
to the tune of a trillion dollars.
So I'm not here to be
lectured by a loan shark
with a gambling problem.
- Excuse me?
Listen, Sparky, if we
write this check today,
will it clear or not?
- Technically, yes.
Then we're done here. Thank you.
(ominous music)
Why is this chest so heavy?
I put a lot of heavy stuff in it.
Ben, you don't fill up a chest like this
when you're moving.
- Yes, you do.
Otherwise, it would take you like 10 trips
to get this many books up here.
Wow, just wow.
- You're welcome.
- I can't believe y'all
are paying $2,000 a month for this.
[Hedy] I know. Great deal, right?
No, it's more than the
mortgage on my house.
We have an eat-in kitchen.
We have a pool and a tennis court.
Yeah,
but you live in Alabama.
Whoa, what is that?
[Ben] Oh, it's an old
Coney Island banner.
We'll take you out there this weekend.
[Hedy] Alex, this place is wild.
I know, right?
It's like every single person
who ever lived here left their stuff
and scooted out in the
middle of the night.
Ah, it's like they just ghosted.
Hey, Ben? Don't you find
it weird that your wife
and her ex-wife are still friends?
We're New Yorkers, Sis. We
don't find anything weird.
Well, I still don't understand
what y'all are paying for this.
[Oliver] Seriously, such a
good deal! I pay more than that
and my apartment doesn't
even have a bathroom.
[Ben] Alex!
Why do we have so many bowls?
[Oliver] I'll take some if you want.
I could really use them.
Oh, y'all need some fresh milk.
I just got it.
[Alex] Thanks, Oliver. Thank you.
(music box playing)
Oh my God.
Nope!
Buh-bye.
Oh, you guys, I just
cannot thank you enough.
Anytime, this place is awesome.
And let me know if you need a roommate.
- (laughs) Okay.
- No, really.
Hey, let me ax you a question.
What do you think this is doing here?
Oh, that's probably
what the last tenant used
to chop up his family before
he buried them in the garden.
Oh, that makes it less funny.
This place has a garden?
- Oliver, you're my hero.
- Anything to get out
of my own apartment.
Thanks, Hedy. Hey, now! Okay.
Hey, you guys,
there is a bag of trash
just outside the door.
Would you mind taking it down on your way?
- Sure.
- Thank you very much.
And seriously, if you wanna get rid
of some bowls or...
- Thanks, Oliver. We're good.
Where's that trash?
I don't know. Maybe Ben took it?
Hey, Ben, check this out.
Am I crazy or does this light
actually make the room darker?
Maybe it's straining
the current or something.
Hey, how come there's a step
to get into the guest room?
The whole floor, it's a foot higher.
You think there's something
buried under the floorboards?
Maybe.
Here's a white noise machine,
in case there's too much street noise.
We got a motion-activated nightlight
in case you gotta get up.
Hmm, well, thanks for putting
me in the freak show room.
I'll make sure not to wake you up
with my screaming nightmares.
Goodnight, Sis.
[Woman] Karen, oh my God.
You have got to try this new brunch place.
They have oat milk martinis.
- [Woman 2] Oh my God!
(young women hooting)
- [Woman 3] OMG, Karen!
Very funny, Ben.
What the hell?
You're gonna have to help me up here.
Push! Come on.
- Looks pretty high.
- Push!
Oh!
Oh, happy new home.
- Mm-hmm.
(clanking)
What the fuck was that?
Old pipes.
(pipes thumping)
(eerie music)
[voice] What did you do to me?
What did you do to me?
What did you do to me?
(scratching sound)
(Sis screaming)
- Oh shit.
Welcome to New York.
- What happened?
- Oh, it was just a roach.
It was as big as my thumb!
Oh, so it was a baby then.
- That's probably the mom.
- Oh God! Get it!
- Well, it's gone now.
- No, find it!
Please, I can't even find my cell phone.
I'm not gonna be able to find a bug
that's slightly smaller.
- Slightly?
Okay, no, I'm not staying here. Motel!
(mysterious music)
(shower running, whistling)
Well you're chipper this morning.
Hey, babe, I think we've got
some black mold up there.
We better take that seriously.
Morning. I got us some fresh milk.
(mysterious music)
Oh my God.
That's weird.
Hey, Ben?
Benny!
Cupcake?
Lollipop!
Ding-doing! Muffin! What the...?
What... Ben! What are you...? What?
Did you not hear me screaming
my lungs out for you in there?
- No, what's up?
- Did you come in
and take my paper towels?
(negative grunt)
What?
Hey, Lexi, please add paper
towels to my shopping list.
[Lexi] You have 13 items
on your shopping list.
What did you add?
Hey, Lexi, what's on my shopping list?
[Lexi] You have 13 items
on your shopping list.
Paper towels, fresh milk.
You should leave here, leave now,
leave now, leave now,
leave now, leave now,
leave now, leave now, leave now,
bananas, leave now, leave now.
You know, um...
I was trying to set an alert
to let me know when it was
time to leave for work.
I guess I just, I screwed it up.
I'm terrible with technology.
But you're a tech guy.
Isn't that literally your job?
Yeah, it's a problem.
(woman screaming)
(carnival music)
[Ben] This is the oldest
operating Ferris wheel
in the country.
[Sis] Well, that doesn't
make me feel safer.
Oh, it's great.
The Wonder Wheel opened up in 1920,
and it's the first Ferris
wheel to ever do this.
- What?
- Oh, you'll see.
(screaming)
Shh! No screaming.
You've gotta record
your audition tomorrow.
In that room?
Oh, I would be a nervous
wreck if I had to record
with all those sirens and party people
and weeping children next door.
Don't let nerves get the best of you.
Ask your doctor about Raehydu.
- What?
That's my audition. Wait, get this.
"Stop taking Raehydu if you
experience uncontrolled bleeding
from the mouth, nose,
or rectum, loss of hair
or fingernails or suicidal
thoughts or actions."
Let me just tell you something.
If I were bleeding from my
nose, mouth, and rectum,
losing my hair and fingernails,
I would definitely be having
some suicidal thoughts.
Whoo!
- Whoo!
Shh, no screaming, no screaming.
Oh, mama!
So I got this really cool
Ouija board back tattoo,
but I think I might've summoned Satan
when I was getting a massage.
- Uh-huh.
See my masseuse, she
just started talking
in Greek, like outta the blue.
- Is your masseuse Greek?
- How should I know?
Okay, fair.
[Alex] (laughs)
"Grandmother's Predictions."
All right, what's she
got to say about you?
"You are known for your generosity,
but sometimes friends
take advantage of you."
Huh, "A journey awaits
you with promise of riches."
You will return changed."
- Ooh.
I like it.
Okay, it's completely black.
- Spook-a-Rama!
- Ooh, Spook-a-Rama!
Don't you think that's weird?
Jesus!
- I am not riding alone.
Aw, then I have to ride by myself.
Wah! I gotta ride by myself.
They take your picture on this ride.
So if you scream like a baby,
I'm gonna post it for everyone to see.
(fun house music & noises)
Ooh-ho-ho.
[Alex] Hey guys? What just happened?
Hello?
Where's Alex?
(gasps) Look, there's our picture!
Hey guys?
(moaning)
Ah shit! Oh, my God! What the...?
Fuck! Oh my God!
Oh my God!
- What, hey?
- You guys,
that ride was way too scary.
- You all right?
Did you see that
freaky-ass man in there?
What, freaky-ass man like he was weird
or freaky ass-man like
he was into your butt?
'Cause there's guys like that.
- Yeah.
You guys, all I know,
you were in the car in front of me, right?
And then all of a sudden,
I dunno what happened
- Lorne!
- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
What the fuck?
- I'm sorry,
my husband is prone to fits.
Well, keep your hands off of my wife!
- Lorne...
- It's okay, it's okay.
Can we just go?
- What just happened?
You embarrassed yourself again.
That's a freaky-ass man.
- You okay?
- What the fuck?
You can't keep doing this.
Ned, they need our help.
Here comes that wave of ghosts
Rising up again
(woman screaming)
(suspenseful music on TV)
Is there some kind of draft in here?
You and your scented candles.
Man, it's the only way
to get any light in here.
You know what they really should make?
Fart-scented candles.
(Alex laughing)
That way, nobody'd think it was you.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
People would be like, "Did he just...?"
"Oh, it's the candle."
[Alex] What are you watching?
[Ben] Oh, some horror movie.
Oh, my God! Why does anyone
in a horror movie go down to the basement?
Because they don't know
they're in a horror movie.
No one should ever go down
to the basement, period.
(victim screaming)
See (laughs)?
Oh, hey, I'm sorry your
sister's too afraid to stay
with us on her last night.
- I mean, hey,
at least we got the place to ourselves.
Ooh, that's true.
Oh, my God, was that you?
- I think it was your candle.
- Oh my God (laughs).
(thumping outside)
Sounds like the neighbors are moving in.
At night?
- [Neighbor] No!
- Oh, my God.
Sounds like they need a hand.
Hello?
I must have just missed them.
So tomorrow let's go
say hello to them, okay?
- I'm turning it, I'm beat.
- Oh, okay.
I'll be in in a while.
(cartoon music on TV)
Yes?
Hon?
What are you...?
(door creaking)
Ben?
Ben?
Okay, if you open one more time,
I'm gonna be a little freaked out.
- What the fuck was that?
- I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
(glass breaking)
Aw...
Jesus!
Not funny, Ben!
Oh!
Ah, gross!
Alex, I'm gonna go see
my sister off before work.
Good luck with that submission today.
Thank you.
Oh, I'm gonna go upstairs
and meet our neighbors later.
- Nice.
Bye.
(suspenseful music)
(child coughing)
(carnival music)
Excuse me.
You sell pictures taken at
the "Spook-a-Rama," right?
- [Vendor] Yep.
- So a friend of mine
rode yesterday, and I'd
like to surprise her.
Is it possible to print out
some pictures from yesterday?
- Yeah.
- Great.
Ah, that's it! That's her. I'll take it.
- Okay, $7.
- Thank you.
Don't let nerves get the best of you.
Ask your doctor about Raehydu
and say goodbye to your life
long fears and anxieties.
Okay...
Is anxiety holding you
back from your dreams?
Ask your doctor about Raehydu,
a prescription medication
for moderate to severe anxiety.
Side effects may include
nausea, dry mouth,
abnormal ejaculation, hallucinations,
irreversible change in skin
color, sleep paralysis,
or explosive diarrhea that
may be difficult to predict.
Stop taking Raehydu if you
experience uncontrolled bleeding
from the mouth, ears, or rectum,
loss of hair or fingernails,
or suicidal thoughts or actions.
Don't take Raehydu if you
are allergic to Raehydu
or its ingredients.
Fatal incidents have occurred.
Don't let nerves get the best of you.
Ask your doctor about Raehydu
and say goodbye to your
lifelong fears and anxieties.
And send.
(scream and thud)
(muffled voices)
Is there anybody there?
Okay, I'm documenting this.
I came in the bathroom because
I heard some crazy sounds
from inside, but the
water was just running
in the sink all by itself.
That's fucked up.
(pipes clanking)
Gah!
(Alex gasping)
Whoa!
Oh my God, I think I'm gonna barf.
God!
Ugh! That was nasty!
Benny, Benny, Benny!
(phone ringing)
- [Ben on phone] Hey, toots!
- Hey.
- What's up?
- You owe me big time, bud.
Oh, yeah, why?
Because I just worked my ass off
cleaning all that black mold out of the
- Alex, you there?
- Oh my God.
What, what happened?
(phone beeping)
Alex?
- Ben, it's my agent,
hang on.
- What, what happened?
- Hello?
- [Agent] Alex,
what did you send me?
- Huh?
[Agent] Your voice over
submission, it's a total garble.
- What?
- [Agent] It's a total garble.
Oh... Oh my God, I'm so
sorry. I can rerecord it.
[Agent] No, no, no. It's too late.
Get your act together,
Alex, you embarrassed me.
I'm so sorry.
Ben, I don't know what's
going on here, man.
[Ben] What? What happened?
[Alex] I don't know what's going on.
[Ben] Alex, you're not making sense.
[Alex recording] Is
anxiety holding you back
(recording becomes distorted)
(recording screeching)
Raehydu.
[child's voice] Mom... Mom...
[Alex] Raehydu...
(backwards voice)
[Alex] Raehydu...
- [child] Mom.
- [Alex] Raehydu.
- [child] Mom.
- [Alex] Raehydu.
[Backwards Alex Voice] We die here.
[child] Mom?
[Alex backwards] We die here.
[child] Mom?
[Alex backwards] We die here.
[child] Help me!
Lorne, what do you want for lunch?
Mm, I'm really in the mood
for that Mongolian place.
- They don't deliver.
- Yeah.
I'm really in the mood
for that Mongolian place.
Well, I guess it's
dead. I could use a walk.
See you in a bit.
- Bye.
Where are you?
Now, where are you?
Where are you?
[Echoey Lorne] Where are you?
- Hey, I'm home.
- Oh my God! Ben,
you have got to come and listen to this.
Okay, wait, wait, wait,
I've got to take a piss.
What the fuck happened in here?
It's the mold.
- You said you cleaned it!
- I did.
Well, what did you use, Miracle Grow?
Listen to me!
I recorded my voice over
audition earlier today,
and then when I played it backwards.
Okay... Whoa... No! No
rational conversation
ever followed the words,
"when I played it backwards."
Listen to me!
(intercom buzzing)
- Are you expecting somebody?
- No.
Hello?
(garbled voices)
That's weird.
- Ben, we gotta move out.
What are you talking about?
We just moved in. We were just talking
about having a house warning party.
I know, this place is bad.
I mean, can't you feel it?
- Where would we even go?
- I don't know.
A hotel maybe?
- We can't afford that.
- Just for one night then.
- No, look
(intercom buzzing)
Hello?
(garbled voices)
(buzzing door)
New neighbors
probably locked themselves out.
Look, you were the one
who was afraid this place
might be haunted.
- No, I was afraid you
would freak out.
Let's not pretend that
you don't have a history
(pounding on door)
Hello?
Don't open that door!
It's the door. I'm gonna open it.
Hello?
Hello?
There's nobody there.
Oh, that was nobody, practically
breaking the door down.
It's probably somebody who's
looking for the neighbors.
What sense does that even make?
Ben, there is something seriously
fucked up going on here.
Read the writing on the wall.
I don't know what you're talking about.
What?
There's nothing there.
Come on, let's go.
- You can't see that?
Let's go. Let's just go in here.
- You can't see that there?
- There's nothing there.
Look at me. Look, look.
I think it's time when we
go see Dr. McMichaels again.
Come on, let's sit down.
(pop music)
I don't care what Ben and my shrink say,
there is something wrong
with that apartment.
But you did see a shrink, right?
Oh, yeah. You'll never
guess what she prescribed
for me: Raehydu. It's the drug
that I just auditioned for.
You supposed to be
drinking while taking that?
No.
You're just under a lot of stress.
God, Hedy, you're worse than them.
- Worse than they.
- That can't be right.
Trust me, I was captain of
the high school grammar team.
Which you never let me forget.
Oh God, you must've been so cool.
Anyways, you had to overextend yourself
to get this apartment.
Now that you're in a situation
where you can't afford
to move again, your brain is punishing you
by creating scenarios where you'd have to.
Damn, girl, you are
better than my shrink.
Psychological insight, killer bod.
Why'd you ever leave me?
Uh, I think it was because
of all the screaming fights.
[TV Host] After
reviewing all our footage,
our paranormal investigation team has come
to a conclusion about the
strange phenomena in your home.
[Home Owner] Is it a ghost?
[Host] No, it's a squatter
living in your crawl space.
[Home Owner] So then
it's not supernatural?
[Host] That's right,
it's just the result
of a nationwide affordable
housing crisis combined
with decades of underinvestment
in mental health.
(intercom beeping)
- [Home Owner] Oh, thank God!
Who is it?
(unintelligible)
I'm sorry, did you say "murderer"?
[Delivery Person] Burger.
You ordered a burger
from Sidney's Five.
- Oh, "burger."
Yeah, that makes more sense.
(buzzing door)
(oven rattling)
Hello?
Ben! Oh my God! What...
(Ben's head banging)
Ben, Ben, Ben!
Shit! You scared me.
I scared you? What were you doing?
Something's written
on the back of the oven.
I was trying to read it.
Well, what did it say?
It said, "Don't stick your head in here."
This apartment is driving you
to do self-destructive things.
I have always done
self-destructive things.
Don't tell me you don't feel it.
Dear God, you won't even go into the room
with the typewriter in it.
It's on my list.
You just get these weird
ideas about the paranormal,
like after we saw "Hamilton,"
and then you went to the Aaron Burr house
to try and harass his ghost.
You're a real jerk, Aaron Burr.
Ma'am, please leave.
Anyway, I just found out
I've gotta go to a conference.
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
[TV ad] ...anxiety. Side
effects may include nausea,
dry mouth, abnormal ejaculation...
Motherfucker.
Is this the ad you tried out for?
Yes.
[TV ad] ...explosive diarrhea
that may be difficult to predict.
Stop taking Raehydu if you
experience uncontrolled bleeding
from the mouth, nose or rectum...
Sorry, babe.
[TV ad] ...or suicidal
thoughts or actions.
Please don't have suicidal
thoughts or actions.
Don't worry. I'm only
having homicidal thoughts.
[TV ad] Don't take
Raehydu if you are allergic
to Raehydu or its ingredients.
Fatal incidents have occurred.
Hey!
What?
[TV ad] Ask your doctor about Raehydu
and say goodbye to your
lifelong fears and anxieties.
Stop taking Raehydu if some
other bitch gets the job.
(glass shattering)
Shit!
Hello?
(bowl shattering)
What are you doing?
Please don't do this, you don't want to.
(bowl shattering)
Can you hear me?
If you're in there, please don't
You don't belong here!
(Lorne gasping)
- It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. I've got you. You're okay.
What the hell are you doing?
I don't know.
You're smashing all our stuff?
I must have been sleepwalking.
That's a side effect of the drug.
- Jesus!
- Well, you're the one
who wanted me to see a shrink.
Well, we got people
coming over in a week.
What are we gonna serve 'em stuff in?
Well, you always said
we have too many bowls!
If I were crazy
I'd write your name across my head
In purple crayon with big Crayola
I'd never wash it
I wouldn't have to
If I were crazy
The voices wouldn't let me be
They'd talk in Spanish,
talk in German,
I'd never get a word in edgewise
If I were crazy
(music playing on phone)
(music playing through stereo)
- You look great.
- Thank you.
- Feeling okay?
- Yeah.
Oh yes, you do.
(ceiling rattling)
- [Neighbor] Oh my God!
- Did you invite them?
- They're never home.
I slid a note under the door though,
so maybe they'll show up.
Well, clearly they're home now.
(suspenseful music)
- Tonight's gonna be fun.
- Yeah.
We finally got the
place all put together.
We got the mold under control.
You're feeling more settled.
Things are looking up.
- [Alex] Oh!
- [Ben] What the fuck?
[Inhuman Voice] Stay out!
[Ben] I think the fuses
are in the basement.
- I'll go.
- Oh, I thought you
were never going to the basement.
(door creaking)
(suspenseful music)
(Alex gasping)
Oh, shit!
Oh, it's funny.
Oh God.
Oh, what's this?
Oh, cool.
(upbeat music)
(intercom buzzing)
(music playing through stereo)
You should see all the crazy
shit that's down there.
Plus there's a secret exit
out the back of the building.
Oh, that's cool. Uh,
people are already arriving.
Oh. Oh, Oliver, thanks for coming!
[Ben] Lemme make you a drink?
- Thanks.
- Come on in.
Hey, I'm Oliver.
- Lisa, I live here.
- Oh, the neighbor.
You moved in last month, right?
I guess. I've kind
of lost track of time.
There's something wrong
with this building.
It's better than mine.
There are all these strange noises.
Marco says it's the plumbing.
At least you have plumbing.
The landlord turned mine off.
He's trying to drive me out
so he can raise the rent.
But I don't have anything saved to move.
My whole retirement plan
is hoping I die early.
There are all these banging noises.
Mine too, they're gutting
the apartment next to mine.
And blood runs down the walls.
Okay...
My apartment doesn't do that.
Marco doesn't believe
me. He never believes me.
He deserves what I did to him.
Olive?
You're the first one here.
So this isn't just a housewarming.
It's actually a sendoff party as well
because Ben's gotta go to
some huge conference tomorrow
and leave me...
Are you okay? Oliver?
Oliver?!
Oh my God! Ben, call 911!
Ben! He's choking, choking, choking!
Here, here, here, here!
Where's my phone? Where's my phone?
Where's your phone?
- I don't know, in my pocket.
I don't know.
- Oh, God! No it's not!
Well go get somebody! Go
get the neighbors, or the...
Just get somebody!
Come on, man, breathe!
(ribs breaking)
[Paramedic 1] Jesus, these stairs!
- Up here, hurry!
- [Paramedic 2] Sorry, ma'am,
we're responding to an
emergency in Apartment Two.
Yeah, this is Apartment Two!
That's the third floor.
Yes, Apartment Two
is on the third floor.
That doesn't make any sense.
Must be like in France.
- Hurry, please!
- We're coming.
More stairs!
Ugh, I need a minute.
My friend has choked on
something and he's not breathing.
Ma'am, one second.
Vic, you okay?
It's just a lot of stairs.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
You have got to come and help us!
Ma'am, please, I'm dealing
with an emergency here.
Well, my friend is not breathing!
Hang in there, buddy. We're
gonna get you to the hospital.
No, no, no, no, no,
I don't have insurance.
- We've been doing CPR.
- Do you know CPR?
I've seen it on TV.
Amateurs!
How's his pulse?
- He doesn't have one!
- How long?
- I don't know!
Like 15, 20 minutes?
Yeah, he's dead.
Drink this.
Ma'am, please! I'll be there in a minute!
- Lorne.
- Oh, so rude!
Where the hell have you been?
- I went out walking.
- After midnight?
- Out in the moonlight.
- What is going on?
You've been distant, you
disappear for hours. Are...
Are you seeing someone?
No, no, no!
Okay, you're not going to like this, but
I could use your help on some research.
We did everything we could.
At least that
paramedic is okay.
You can't still say
that there is nothing crazy
happening inside this apartment.
Oliver wasn't killed by a ghost.
He was killed by an olive.
Where was my phone?
I can't keep track of your phone!
I gotta pack.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You are not going.
I can't just not go to the conference.
Have you given any thought
to my responsibilities?
I think under the circumstances
they would understand.
Do you understand how
much pressure I'm under
from everybody else at work?
From these kids? And we need this job!
I mean, it's not like
you've been booking a lot
of voiceovers lately.
Get out.
Okay, okay. To be clear,
you're mad I'm leaving,
so you want me to leave sooner?
Just fucking go!
Hey, how you doing?
(footsteps upstairs)
(phone ringing)
Hello?
[Hedy on phone] Alex, you okay?
Hedy?
We were gonna meet for drinks at 6:00.
It's almost 7:00.
Yeah, six o'clock at
night. I know I'm a wreck,
but I'm not a drinking
in the morning wreck
yet.
- It is night.
I slept all day?
Wow, well, after what you
went through last night,
it totally makes sense.
- No, it doesn't.
(child laughing)
Hedy?
- Yeah?
I hear sounds coming from the next room.
Will you stay on the line?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Hedy, there's a door in this room.
Yeah, well, most rooms have doors.
No, another door.
I walked through one door,
and now there's another door.
Is this some kind of
philosophical statement?
I'm gonna call you back.
(phone ringing)
[Hedy on phone] Hello?
Hedy, our apartment
has another secret room.
Alex, it's 4:00 in the morning.
What did you say?
It's 4:00 in the morning.
Please, you need to sleep.
I promise, this is gonna look
better in the morning, okay?
- Sleep.
- Yes, okay.
Yeah, okay.
[Alex recorded] Is
anxiety holding you back
from your dreams? Ask
your doctor about Raehydu,
a prescription medication for
moderate to severe anxiety.
Side effects may include
nausea, dry mouth,
abnormal ejaculation, hallucinations,
irreversible change in skin
color, sleep paralysis,
sleep paralysis, sleep
paralysis, sleep paralysis...
These are known side effects.
These are just known side effects.
(child laughing)
Oh my God!
Stop taking Raehydu if
you experience bleeding.
That does it!
Oh, you think you're so bad?
I have had way worse roommates than you!
And I will not be bullied
out of my dream apartment!
I've had a roommate with
a serious gas problem!
I've had a roommate
take a shit in the sink!
I've had a roommate
fuck a dog on the couch,
and I have had a roommate that composted!
So I am definitely not afraid of you!
I will sage the fuck outta this place!
My God, you don't even have a body!
Look at me! I've got arms and legs
(phone ringing)
[Hedy on phone] Hey, what's up?
Heddy, I need your help.
I got you, babe. What do you need?
Pants, I need fucking pants!
Shit was just like being thrown at me.
I mean like a lamp was thrown at me.
Maybe the apartment was built
on an Indian burial ground or something.
Isn't all of a Manhattan built
on an Indian burial ground?
I don't know. Look, if
there's an answer to be found,
it's probably from this guy.
Hi, is this the Miraculous Mr.
Moon's Fortune Consultation?
That's my grandfather. I
do the consultations now.
Well, here's the thing, I
have ghosts in my apartment.
Is this like a Halloween attraction?
No, actual ghosts, like
shit flying off shelves.
- Could it be a draft?
- Um, that's what I said.
No, I have real ghosts,
and I need real mystical guidance
from the Miraculous Mr. Moon.
Oh, I see.
A book falls off your shelf,
and you come down to Chinatown
and find an old man with all the answers.
What kind of racist '80s B movie
do you think you're living in?
Aren't you a fortune teller?
Fortune consultant, we
help you make a fortune.
It's business seminars, not mystical shit.
All right, well, what's with all this
Miraculous Mr. Moon business then?
Okay, my grandfather came here
without a cent in his
pocket or a word of English
and became a successful textile importer.
That's pretty fucking miraculous.
It is.
So unless you've got a business idea,
get the fuck outta my office.
Puppies on demand.
- What?
- You rent 'em by the hour.
It's like an escort service,
only for puppy cuddling.
- Huh.
- Oh my God!
We'll talk.
(upbeat music)
Oh my God, I cannot go
back to that apartment again.
You can stay with me until Ben's back.
Are you sure?
That's asking a lot?
- What are exes for?
I can't tell you what it was like.
When shit started flying
through the air coming at me,
I was so scared, I literally shit myself.
I hope you didn't literally,
"literally shit" yourself.
I came close, grammar
captain, my captain, very close.
(phone buzzing)
Ben, I just cannot right now.
What am I gonna tell
him, that I'm too scared
to go back to our apartment?
He's gonna think I'm fucking crazy.
So what if you call that guy on TV
who talks to dead people?
Oh, no, no, no, he had
a Me Too issue, I think.
What about this guy?
Televangelist says he
can drive out demons.
Uh, I'm pretty sure that he
had a sexual harassment
claim against him as well.
Look, Hedy, I have ghosts in my apartment.
I'm not gonna invite a sex
monster in on top of it.
Well, maybe just a regular
priest can do an exorcism.
(coughs) The Catholic church?
Are you even listening to me?
- Mm, how about this one?
They sound like "The Conjuring" couple,
only gay.
- Aw.
Seems safe, right?
(determined music)
Oh dear.
You!
I've been expecting you.
You're the guy who grabbed me.
- I can explain that.
- He can. I promise.
He's not creepy.
- So, I've been following you
and I found out where you live.
- Uh, how is that not creepy?
- You are making it sound
a little creepy, hon.
Okay, it sounds creepy, I admit it.
Lorne's a little creepy, but
he has a good heart. I'm Ned.
- I'm Alex.
- Tell her what you found out.
I consulted this book of dark secrets.
What is that, the Necronomicon?
It's a history of Manhattan real estate.
Now your building was erected in 1851
as a single family residence.
(Lorne laughing)
You said erected.
(phone ringing)
I'm sorry, go on.
Three workers died in the construction.
The first owners were Ephraim
and Fanny Wigglesworth.
- Sorry, seriously?
- [Lorne] Funny names, huh?
They are, they really are.
They suffered horrible deaths.
Their three-year-old
daughter got a hold of a gun.
See now, if they had also had guns,
they would've been able
to defend themselves.
The only thing that can stop
a bad toddler with a gun...
Anyway, the girl shot off
their knees and their genitals.
(gun shots, screaming)
They slowly bled to death,
and the girl starved
and died in her own filth.
(snorts) Fanny (laughs).
(Alex laughing)
They were all found in
the third floor parlor.
- Which is now our apartment.
- Right. After that,
it was home to a civil war surgeon
who came home and dismembered his family,
some circus folk who died in
a knife-throwing accident,
a mad artist who mixed her
own blood with the paint
until she didn't have any left.
- Gross.
- There have been
193 homicides,
117 suicides,
37 heart attacks,
three autoerotic asphyxiations,
one death by
peanut allergy,
42 fatal falls down the stairs,
eight deaths by fire,
one tenant eaten by his own dog.
I wish they had told
me they allowed dogs.
We've been really wanting to get one.
- Aw.
- The point is,
every time someone new has
signed a lease on your unit,
three people have died, exactly three.
The number three came
up on my television set.
And then right after my
friend died, it said two.
Right. The apartment's
going to kill two more people.
Now, the building's
had a number of owners.
In 1989, it was purchased
by a shell company
owned by a holding company owned by an LLC
with a PO box in Romania.
So we have no idea who the real owner is,
but the lease holder on
your unit is Reena Baker.
Now, since you're not
actually on the lease...
No, technically we're subletting.
Yes, so I think Reena Baker is using you
to get the three deaths outta the way
so she can move back in.
Ah! Okay, well then, how come the ghosts
are coming after me sometimes
when I'm not even in the apartment?
And why aren't they going after her?
Well, how the hell should I know?
You think there's a rule book on all this?
- No, I just...
- Excuse me, I know
how disappointing it must be
that I've only been able
to unravel 170 years
of well hidden history,
cross-reference hundreds
of coroners' reports,
and derive a pattern,
the understanding of which
may save your very life.
- Thank you.
- I'm sorry that I'm not
also able to fully explain the realm
beyond this mortal coil.
- I am very grateful.
What do I do?
I don't know.
You could probably Airbnb it,
let someone else take the hit.
I'm not gonna invite
people to be killed.
It's gonna happen one way or the other.
Even if you move out, it's
just gonna get somebody else.
Isn't there a way to drive
the evil out of the apartment?
- Yes.
- No.
Someone with a stronger psychic force
could drive the evil out.
- Stronger than what?
This apartment feeds on
souls. It's already eaten 500.
It's stronger than you can imagine.
It's going to take two more souls soon,
and it's not gonna be ours. I'm sorry.
There's gotta be somebody.
This guy gave me his card once.
He claims he's a psychic.
He's probably full of shit.
Most of them are.
I don't know what else to tell you.
What about this Baker
woman? Where is she?
Oh, you don't wanna go looking for her.
Trust me.
She lives on Staten Island.
(ferry horn)
Oh, I am going to lay into her so hard.
Yeah, but you said she was an old lady.
I don't care.
She used us as ghost bait.
You better hold me back,
or I'm gonna turn her into a ghost.
God!
(ominous music)
(phone ringing)
Oh my God, could Ben have worse timing?
Hey Alex, are you sure
this is the right place?
It looks like a storage facility.
I know, right? Well,
they've got a unit number.
Oh, hello.
- Ms. Baker?
- Please come in.
All right, you old bat,
you have some serious explaining to do.
Ms. Baker, do you live in here?
It's all I can afford.
Uh-uh, don't gimme some pity party
while you're literally trying
to kill my husband and I.
- My husband and me.
- Not now, Hedy.
I'm sorry. I didn't
know what else to do.
And we pay you two grand a month.
I mean, that's not a lot.
But come on, you can do better
than a storage unit on Staten Island.
That's barely enough
to cover my medications.
You don't know me.
When my husband died, I lost the house.
Our son OD'd.
I didn't have anyone to help me.
I thought I was going to be homeless.
And then I found what looked
like the perfect apartment
at a price I could actually afford.
I didn't know its history.
After I moved in, things
started happening.
When I found out the
truth about the place,
I was scared.
I didn't know what to do.
It was trying to kill me.
I know. I am so sorry for your losses.
I guess you were just doing
what you thought you had to do.
Look,
maybe there's a way that we
could drive the ghost out,
and then you could move back in.
Do you think that's possible?
Honey, two days ago,
I didn't think any of this
was possible, so who knows?
But listen, what you did was still wrong.
I know. I just didn't know what to do.
I thought that that colored broker,
she might rent it to some coloreds
and then it wouldn't matter so much.
- I'm sorry, what?
- Or maybe some queers.
I mean, who's gonna miss them?
Or maybe the Japs. Those
slanty-eyed bastards
are taking over the neighborhood.
It's not good.
- Oh my God!
- What?
- Okay, we're going.
Are you fucking kidding me?
- Young lady, language.
- Oh my God!
We are gonna drive those ghosts out,
but you are never getting
that apartment back,
you racist, homophobic bitch!
- How dare you?
Don't engage. It was
really nice to meet you.
Make America great again!
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no!
Well, that could have gone worse.
I really don't see how.
Mm, she called you young lady.
Oh God, Hedy,
look, I still don't have any answers.
I have no money. I have
no career, effectively,
and I am about to be
homeless. I have nothing.
That is not true.
You have a beer.
- And that is a good thing.
- And you have a friend.
- Almost as good.
- What about that guy
that the couple from Coney
Island referred you to?
Well, I wouldn't exactly
call it a referral.
They gave me some guy's card
and said he's probably full of shit.
Hmm, beggars and choosers.
Hedy, I can't thank you enough.
I think you literally saved my life.
And I mean "literally" literally.
Just that you believed me.
Of course I believe
you, and I believe in you.
You will never have nothing
because I will always
be there if you need me.
I think I know something
that will cheer you up.
There is a show tune for every situation.
- Not haunted apartments.
- Yes.
Hey, do you have the karaoke tracks
for the Edgar Allan Poe musical?
Yes!
(music)
When I'm wakened in the night
By creaking footsteps in the hall
Or the crying of a cat
That I've bricked up inside the wall
I think of you and suddenly
I'm not scared of them at all
For the passion that you stir
Could make the House of Usher fall
Thoughts of you haunt me
Like evil spirits, they taunt me
And if you don't want me
I'll get drunk and
go die in the street
I can't be near you
My conscience tells me to fear you
With fettered words, my dear, you
Enchain me in this
prison that's so sweet
Even on a midnight dreary
I'll never get weary,
if it's yes to my query, my dearie,
let's elope on the double.
We'll make a castle out of a hovel.
I give you my heart till death do us part,
maybe longer if I can find a shovel.
Can a passion once entombed
Return to life when re-exhumed
Tell me that my hopes aren't doomed
And the love that I crave
won't get left in the grave
Ravens are singing
My heart's a pendulum swinging
Can't help it, I'm flinging
Myself into this dangerous new start
We can't be apart
So please don't break
My tell-tale heart
(audience applauding)
- Oh, Hedy.
- Oh wow.
I don't know how you always manage
to make me feel better.
I don't know how I
managed to let you go.
- Oh God.
- Sorry.
- I gotta go.
- Go where?
I can't stay with you anymore.
(ominous music)
Hello?
(phone ringing)
[Ben on phone] Alex?
Ben, hi, how are you?
I've been worried sick.
You haven't answered my
calls. Is everything okay?
Yeah, everything's fine.
I'm just here in our
apartment. Everything's normal.
Everything's clean and...
Everything's clean and tidy.
Oh yeah, great,
'cause I guess I'm not
around to mess stuff up, huh?
(typewriter clacks)
I gotta go.
Hold on, hold on. I
gotta tell you something.
- No, I'll call you back.
- I'm on my way home.
I left the conference early
'cause I was worried about you. Alex?
(typewriter clacks)
You shouldn't have come back!
(phone ringing)
[Voice on phone] Good evening.
Hi, uh, is this "The Great Manfredo?"
Why, yes.
Do you do emergency house calls?
(carnival music, fireworks)
- Oh no!
- What?
That apartment,
it's going to kill the last two people.
We've got to go!
- What, and be the two people?
You don't understand.
If you knew, deep down in your soul knew
somebody was going to be hurt,
you'd do everything you could to stop it.
That's why I'm trying to stop you.
Fine, let's go.
How can there be no cars available?
Subway.
- Subway.
Come on, come on, come
on, come on, come on.
- That doesn't help.
- Shut up.
- Don't tell me to shut up.
- Don't talk to me.
I have to warn you, this is
some pretty fucked up shit.
Since I was small child,
I have been in constant communication
with the spirits of the other side.
The phantom,
the wampyr,
the were vulva,
They frighten me not.
Okay, well, this is the place.
This is quite charming.
Oh, you say that now.
You have all this space to yourself?
Oh no, I share this with my husband.
And where is he now?
Oh, business trip.
Oh, how inconvenient.
All right, how do we
start? What do we do?
First, we must brew some tea.
Okay.
Eat-in kitchen... How much you pay?
Can we just stick to...?
Okay, well, I've got
Sleepy Time and chamomile.
There's some mint, and...
- I have brought my own.
It must be loose leaves for me to read.
Oh, okay, but we're not just gonna
have like a fortune telling thing, right?
We're gonna have a full-on
exorcism, right?
I was about 12 years old
when I performed my first exorcism.
You will have peace in this house tonight.
I swear upon my life.
Okay.
Make yourself at home.
[Announcer] Stand clear
of the closing doors.
- [Lorne] Finally.
- What stop is it?
- Um, 2nd Avenue.
- 24 stops away.
I must read your palm.
Is this really necessary?
Yes, yes indeed, it is.
Have no fear, my dear.
Uh, this is making me
really uncomfortable.
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
Oh, no, no, no, no, oh,
no, no, no, no, no! Oh no!
You look faint, my dear.
Perhaps the spirits have overcome you.
Oh no! Oh, no, no, no!
Stop it!
But you called me in
the middle of the night,
when your husband was
away, and I have come to
(door bursting)
Holy fuck, what was that?
Oh my God!
Ow!
Augh!
How did you do that?
Ah, oh!
I'm shitting myself. I'm
actually shitting myself.
Oh my God!
I'm still shitting!
Still think it's charming?
(neck snapping)
(dramatic music)
For Christ's sake,
I know you're just
walking slowly behind me
to scare the bejesus out of me.
Just fucking catch me
already and get it over with.
(dildo squeaking)
Really? The basement is the only option?
Motherfucker!
[Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
we are being held momentarily
by the train's dispatcher.
Thank you for your patience.
(old record playing)
Hello, Georgie, hello, George
(Alex screaming)
Are you sure you're all alone?
Oh, you've come to see my masterpiece!
Are you sure you're all alone?
Oh, oh!
(ghoul laughing)
(Alex screaming)
(whistle howling)
Oh my God.
You look like you could use a drink.
Yes, because I
survived. I am the victor.
I won, and I am never going
into that apartment again.
I don't care what Ben says.
I've had some apartments
like that myself.
Oh God! Hey, is there a place back there
where I could plug this in?
- Sure.
Thank you so much.
Oh, well, at least I have a few days
before I have to try to
explain things to Ben.
(messages chiming)
I guess you missed some messages.
Oh, God. What does it say?
Uh, Ben: "I am coming home,"
"I am at Grand Central."
- No, no, no, no.
- "Just got a cab."
"I'm almost home."
- Oh, no, no!
"Pulling up now."
Oh, no, no, no!
Come on, pick up!
(phone buzzing)
[Ben's voicemail]
Hey, you've reached Ben.
Don't leave a message
'cause it's really not a thing anymore.
(phone beeping)
- Ben, whatever you do,
do not go into that
apartment! Do not go upstairs!
The apartment is going to
kill one more person tonight,
and I am not fucking
around! Do not go upstairs!
That place sounds like a real shit hole.
Oh God, I gotta go!
(unholy howling)
Alex!
We just need one more.
- Don't go in.
- I have to.
- Don't go in.
- I have to.
- I can't lose you.
- You're not going to.
Ben!
Oh, I see you've met our roommates.
Oh, shit.
Stop!
They can't hurt us. I won't let them.
No, but you can hurt each other.
Ben! Ben!
Ben, Ben, Ben, what are you doing?
Ben, what are you doing?
I don't know.
What did I do?
What did I do?
(Lorne wheezing)
It's not his fault.
He can't be blamed.
I can't regret
doing good.
We were young back then,
But not too young to know
I wonder if you knew
How much I loved you so
Lost at sea, we were drifters there
Not headed for the coast
Memories of holding you
Waft right in like a ghost
(Alex knocking)
[Reena] I'm not here!
Okay, you win.
You were counting on the
apartment to kill three people,
and now you could go claim your reward.
I hope you feel just great about it.
That's kind of you.
You could've hidden it
and kept the apartment for yourself.
You think I still wanna live there?
Oh honey, please! Lemme
tell you something.
There is nothing in that apartment
that is as evil as you.
You flatter me.
Let's go.
Memories of lovin' you
- There's no place like home.
Enfold me like a ghost
That's when I miss you
Most of all
Hey!
I miss you most
- How is he?
- Seems like he'll be okay.
It's a miracle.
Ned, I'm so sorry.
- Can we see him?
- It's, uh, probably better
if you stay away for now.
Cops still have a lot of
questions about exactly how this
woodworking accident happened.
I'm so sorry.
(Reena panting)
(eerie music)
Home again, home again, jiggity jig!
Oh shit.
(Reena screaming)
(flesh tearing)
(thud)
(Christmas music)
Hey now!
Thank you.
I still think you're brave to stay.
Well, supposedly we're safe for now,
but if somebody else moves
in, they wouldn't be.
At least that's what Lorne
said when I asked him.
When you axed him?
- Not funny.
- What?
I thought, you two buried the hatchet.
Okay, don't...
Thank you.
So the old lady stays on the lease.
Yep. She's got no family.
So as long as we pay the rent,
apparently nobody knows she's gone.
(Ben knocking on wood)
(something knocking back)
(intercom buzzing)
(unearthly moaning)
Uh, think that's Lorne and Ned.
Hi, welcome! Wou're looking wonderful.
Hey, hey! Hey, welcome.
Could I get you a drink?
Oh no, thank you.
When I drink now it all dribbles
out the hole in the front.
(Lorne laughing)
May I make a toast please?
Here's to good friends
and an apartment big
enough to entertain them.
Seriously!
When is the last time you
saw a Manhattan apartment
with an eat-in kitchen?
Listen people, and listen well
I've got myself a little story to tell
The kind that make you sweat
Turn you into wreck
Make the hair stand up
on the back of your neck
Fucking ghosts!
All right, fine!
It was a little funny.
- See?
finished watching "Psycho,"
and now she's taking a shower.
Who takes a shower after
watching "Psycho," right?
So I'm gonna play a little trick on her.
Watch.
(whistling in shower)
(wife screaming)
(thud)
- Oh my God!
No! No!
[Child] Oh my God,
what did you do to Mom?
It was an accident! She just slipped!
I'm calling the cops!
Wait, wait, wait, just!
- Let go of me!
- Just wait!
(Child screaming)
(crash, bones snapping)
Oh my God! No, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
What have I done?
Listen people, and listen well
I've got myself a little story to tell
The kind that make you sweat
Turn you into wreck
Make the hair stand up
on the back of your neck
Something's happened we cannot explain
But they're happenin' just the same
Like you wake in the night
With something strange in your bed
You tell yourself it's nothing
It's all in your head
I've got a good
feeling about this place,
and it's fully furnished.
Why does the listing say it's "evil"?
That's the East Village.
You know, it's just an abbreviation
like SoHo, Dumbo, Tribeca, the eVil.
You know, we could get
more space in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's priced out now too.
Dude, what do you got
against this place anyway?
- It's too cheap.
- Oh, what a great problem
to have. What will we do
with all of our extra money?
Alex, there's got to be
something wrong with it.
Nobody rents a three bedroom
for two grand in East Village.
The eVil, get with the times, Ben.
(ominous music)
Hi, Ben, hi, Alex. I am
Parker. So good to meet you.
So you're here for the eVil three bedroom?
- Yeah.
- Awesome, let's go look.
(eerie music)
(door creaking)
Now the entrance isn't so inviting,
but it gets better, I promise.
So each unit has its own floor,
and we're going to Number Two.
But isn't this the third floor?
Oh, yes, but there's no
unit on the ground floor.
So Number One is one flight
up, Number Two is two flights.
It's very French.
Ooh la la!
So it's a fully-furnished three bedroom.
Doesn't get a lot of daylight.
(gasps) Ooh, I think we just
found our dream apartment.
Mmm! And it's near three subway lines,
has two full closets...
- Get out!
- [echo] Get out!
- an eat-in kitchen.
- Wow.
- What's wrong with it?
Oh, you know, it's an old building.
The lights flicker sometimes,
the hot water runs out too fast.
Oh, and it's supposedly haunted.
The last tenant went crazy,
killed his wife and child,
chopped up their bodies,
buried them in the garden,
and blew his brains out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
There's a garden?
- There is!
- No, no!
Go back to the other thing.
- Oh, I know.
I was kind of freaked out
about that myself at first.
But yes,
there is a 432-square-foot eat-in kitchen
with a gas stove.
- No, no, no, the murders?
Oh, that. Yeah, well, he
claimed it was an accident.
He only cut up and hid the
bodies because he panicked.
Look, the listing did
say, this place is evil.
Now, the lease holder
insisted I'd be up front
about how a lot of the
previous tenants came to
horrific ends.
- A lot?
I like to say don't focus on the rumors.
Focus on the rooms.
They're high ceilings.
High enough to hang your large artwork.
- Or yourself.
- Whatever floats your boat.
(laughs) Let's go see the kitchen.
New fridge, new stove, big oven.
Oh yeah.
Look at all this storage space.
So the garden is out here.
Just under the fire escape.
(children playing)
Perfect place to get
away, clear your head.
And it's shared with the
other families in the building?
Three other units.
They're all currently vacant.
Wait, we're the only ones here?
The other apartments are empty?
Don't get too spoiled.
In this market, the other
units will fill up soon.
This room's set up as an office,
but it could be another bedroom.
Master bedroom.
Oh, that's kinda cool. Wow.
Oh my God, what is this?
A lot of the past
tenants left in a hurry.
So people's stuff just got thrown in here.
Before or after they were
hauled off to the sanitarium?
No, the last tenant that happened to,
they got rid of his stuff.
I could have my recording booth in here.
I don't know. It doesn't feel right.
I totally get it,
I can show you other
listings in this price range.
In Manhattan?
No.
But East New York, Gravesend.
Are you open to the Bronx?
So it's just first and last month's rent,
one month's security deposit,
my fee, and the credit check.
It just amounts to $8,100.
Do you take credit cards?
No.
Lorne, we're so late.
Please don't stop to give out charms
to homeless people again.
You're so mean. When
did you get so mean?
I'm not mean.
Oh, excuse us, sorry.
Alex!
I had to stop and buy
this good luck charm
from a homeless man.
I think if it was really lucky,
he would've been less homeless.
But we need all the luck we can get.
Look, the best part
about it, it's a whistle.
Don't put your lips on it!
(whistle screeching)
(mysterious music)
So I found him in a secondhand store
and I decided to bring him home.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I thought maybe I could learn
a ventriloquist act or something.
Not a typical 21st century career
or hobby choice, but okay.
- I know, right?
So I put him in a rocking
chair opposite my bed.
You have seriously never
seen a horror movie, have you?
No, why?
So when I woke up,
there was blood running out of his mouth,
and all my roommates were dead.
And then
I woke up for real.
- Oh, Jesus!
No, you don't understand.
I've been having nightmares
like this every night.
They said you deal with
this sort of thing.
- Who?
- Yelp.
Okay, what you have here is
what is commonly referred to
as a creepy fucking doll.
And you're having nightmares
because it's fucking creepy.
There is nothing supernatural
about this stick of wood.
Can you just test it to be sure?
There's not really any kind of...
No!
They say that you can sense things.
My husband is not some circus freak here
to amaze and amuse you.
Okay, technically, but...
Look, if there's nothing
supernatural about it,
then there's nothing
to worry about or fear.
But if there is, shouldn't
I be the one to know?
- It can't hurt, Ned.
- Lorne...
Thank you.
(suspenseful music)
Babe?
Oh, you used him as a sex toy?
Oh, no! You really...
No wonder you're having nightmares.
- I'm having nightmares.
- Oh, come on.
It was one time!
- Get out!
Wait, wait, wanna see
my ventriloquist act?
- No!
- No!
This is my hit song, it's
called "Saltwater Taffy."
Get out!
Who wants a saltwater taffy
I've got a saltwater taffy
Hey, hey, hey, who
wants a saltwater taffy
I've got a saltwater taffy
(mysterious music)
It's crazy. We can't
afford to stay in our place,
but we also can't afford
to move to a cheaper one.
So you are a computer
programmer, and you are an actress.
Voiceover artist.
Well, we certainly can
give you an overdraft loan.
There will of course be a
fee and a 21% finance charge.
21%? What's the interest
on our savings account pay?
- 0.01%.
- Why is it so much cheaper
for you to borrow money from us?
We obviously aren't
borrowing money from you.
Isn't that the deal?
Like, while you're holding our money,
don't you speculate
with it in a bunch of...
What's it? Dirigibles?
- Deliberatives.
- Derivatives.
- Thank you.
- And we are not.
- And you know what?
We actually would have the money
if you didn't charge us a fee
every month for the privilege
of letting you borrow our money.
The fee is because you
don't have more money
in your account.
- Oh, Ben, that's it.
We should have just had more money.
You really should keep
more money set aside.
I mean, especially at your age.
Okay, you know what?
We might not have made
all the best financial decisions so far,
but at least we haven't needed
the taxpayers to bail us out
to the tune of a trillion dollars.
So I'm not here to be
lectured by a loan shark
with a gambling problem.
- Excuse me?
Listen, Sparky, if we
write this check today,
will it clear or not?
- Technically, yes.
Then we're done here. Thank you.
(ominous music)
Why is this chest so heavy?
I put a lot of heavy stuff in it.
Ben, you don't fill up a chest like this
when you're moving.
- Yes, you do.
Otherwise, it would take you like 10 trips
to get this many books up here.
Wow, just wow.
- You're welcome.
- I can't believe y'all
are paying $2,000 a month for this.
[Hedy] I know. Great deal, right?
No, it's more than the
mortgage on my house.
We have an eat-in kitchen.
We have a pool and a tennis court.
Yeah,
but you live in Alabama.
Whoa, what is that?
[Ben] Oh, it's an old
Coney Island banner.
We'll take you out there this weekend.
[Hedy] Alex, this place is wild.
I know, right?
It's like every single person
who ever lived here left their stuff
and scooted out in the
middle of the night.
Ah, it's like they just ghosted.
Hey, Ben? Don't you find
it weird that your wife
and her ex-wife are still friends?
We're New Yorkers, Sis. We
don't find anything weird.
Well, I still don't understand
what y'all are paying for this.
[Oliver] Seriously, such a
good deal! I pay more than that
and my apartment doesn't
even have a bathroom.
[Ben] Alex!
Why do we have so many bowls?
[Oliver] I'll take some if you want.
I could really use them.
Oh, y'all need some fresh milk.
I just got it.
[Alex] Thanks, Oliver. Thank you.
(music box playing)
Oh my God.
Nope!
Buh-bye.
Oh, you guys, I just
cannot thank you enough.
Anytime, this place is awesome.
And let me know if you need a roommate.
- (laughs) Okay.
- No, really.
Hey, let me ax you a question.
What do you think this is doing here?
Oh, that's probably
what the last tenant used
to chop up his family before
he buried them in the garden.
Oh, that makes it less funny.
This place has a garden?
- Oliver, you're my hero.
- Anything to get out
of my own apartment.
Thanks, Hedy. Hey, now! Okay.
Hey, you guys,
there is a bag of trash
just outside the door.
Would you mind taking it down on your way?
- Sure.
- Thank you very much.
And seriously, if you wanna get rid
of some bowls or...
- Thanks, Oliver. We're good.
Where's that trash?
I don't know. Maybe Ben took it?
Hey, Ben, check this out.
Am I crazy or does this light
actually make the room darker?
Maybe it's straining
the current or something.
Hey, how come there's a step
to get into the guest room?
The whole floor, it's a foot higher.
You think there's something
buried under the floorboards?
Maybe.
Here's a white noise machine,
in case there's too much street noise.
We got a motion-activated nightlight
in case you gotta get up.
Hmm, well, thanks for putting
me in the freak show room.
I'll make sure not to wake you up
with my screaming nightmares.
Goodnight, Sis.
[Woman] Karen, oh my God.
You have got to try this new brunch place.
They have oat milk martinis.
- [Woman 2] Oh my God!
(young women hooting)
- [Woman 3] OMG, Karen!
Very funny, Ben.
What the hell?
You're gonna have to help me up here.
Push! Come on.
- Looks pretty high.
- Push!
Oh!
Oh, happy new home.
- Mm-hmm.
(clanking)
What the fuck was that?
Old pipes.
(pipes thumping)
(eerie music)
[voice] What did you do to me?
What did you do to me?
What did you do to me?
(scratching sound)
(Sis screaming)
- Oh shit.
Welcome to New York.
- What happened?
- Oh, it was just a roach.
It was as big as my thumb!
Oh, so it was a baby then.
- That's probably the mom.
- Oh God! Get it!
- Well, it's gone now.
- No, find it!
Please, I can't even find my cell phone.
I'm not gonna be able to find a bug
that's slightly smaller.
- Slightly?
Okay, no, I'm not staying here. Motel!
(mysterious music)
(shower running, whistling)
Well you're chipper this morning.
Hey, babe, I think we've got
some black mold up there.
We better take that seriously.
Morning. I got us some fresh milk.
(mysterious music)
Oh my God.
That's weird.
Hey, Ben?
Benny!
Cupcake?
Lollipop!
Ding-doing! Muffin! What the...?
What... Ben! What are you...? What?
Did you not hear me screaming
my lungs out for you in there?
- No, what's up?
- Did you come in
and take my paper towels?
(negative grunt)
What?
Hey, Lexi, please add paper
towels to my shopping list.
[Lexi] You have 13 items
on your shopping list.
What did you add?
Hey, Lexi, what's on my shopping list?
[Lexi] You have 13 items
on your shopping list.
Paper towels, fresh milk.
You should leave here, leave now,
leave now, leave now,
leave now, leave now,
leave now, leave now, leave now,
bananas, leave now, leave now.
You know, um...
I was trying to set an alert
to let me know when it was
time to leave for work.
I guess I just, I screwed it up.
I'm terrible with technology.
But you're a tech guy.
Isn't that literally your job?
Yeah, it's a problem.
(woman screaming)
(carnival music)
[Ben] This is the oldest
operating Ferris wheel
in the country.
[Sis] Well, that doesn't
make me feel safer.
Oh, it's great.
The Wonder Wheel opened up in 1920,
and it's the first Ferris
wheel to ever do this.
- What?
- Oh, you'll see.
(screaming)
Shh! No screaming.
You've gotta record
your audition tomorrow.
In that room?
Oh, I would be a nervous
wreck if I had to record
with all those sirens and party people
and weeping children next door.
Don't let nerves get the best of you.
Ask your doctor about Raehydu.
- What?
That's my audition. Wait, get this.
"Stop taking Raehydu if you
experience uncontrolled bleeding
from the mouth, nose,
or rectum, loss of hair
or fingernails or suicidal
thoughts or actions."
Let me just tell you something.
If I were bleeding from my
nose, mouth, and rectum,
losing my hair and fingernails,
I would definitely be having
some suicidal thoughts.
Whoo!
- Whoo!
Shh, no screaming, no screaming.
Oh, mama!
So I got this really cool
Ouija board back tattoo,
but I think I might've summoned Satan
when I was getting a massage.
- Uh-huh.
See my masseuse, she
just started talking
in Greek, like outta the blue.
- Is your masseuse Greek?
- How should I know?
Okay, fair.
[Alex] (laughs)
"Grandmother's Predictions."
All right, what's she
got to say about you?
"You are known for your generosity,
but sometimes friends
take advantage of you."
Huh, "A journey awaits
you with promise of riches."
You will return changed."
- Ooh.
I like it.
Okay, it's completely black.
- Spook-a-Rama!
- Ooh, Spook-a-Rama!
Don't you think that's weird?
Jesus!
- I am not riding alone.
Aw, then I have to ride by myself.
Wah! I gotta ride by myself.
They take your picture on this ride.
So if you scream like a baby,
I'm gonna post it for everyone to see.
(fun house music & noises)
Ooh-ho-ho.
[Alex] Hey guys? What just happened?
Hello?
Where's Alex?
(gasps) Look, there's our picture!
Hey guys?
(moaning)
Ah shit! Oh, my God! What the...?
Fuck! Oh my God!
Oh my God!
- What, hey?
- You guys,
that ride was way too scary.
- You all right?
Did you see that
freaky-ass man in there?
What, freaky-ass man like he was weird
or freaky ass-man like
he was into your butt?
'Cause there's guys like that.
- Yeah.
You guys, all I know,
you were in the car in front of me, right?
And then all of a sudden,
I dunno what happened
- Lorne!
- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
What the fuck?
- I'm sorry,
my husband is prone to fits.
Well, keep your hands off of my wife!
- Lorne...
- It's okay, it's okay.
Can we just go?
- What just happened?
You embarrassed yourself again.
That's a freaky-ass man.
- You okay?
- What the fuck?
You can't keep doing this.
Ned, they need our help.
Here comes that wave of ghosts
Rising up again
(woman screaming)
(suspenseful music on TV)
Is there some kind of draft in here?
You and your scented candles.
Man, it's the only way
to get any light in here.
You know what they really should make?
Fart-scented candles.
(Alex laughing)
That way, nobody'd think it was you.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
People would be like, "Did he just...?"
"Oh, it's the candle."
[Alex] What are you watching?
[Ben] Oh, some horror movie.
Oh, my God! Why does anyone
in a horror movie go down to the basement?
Because they don't know
they're in a horror movie.
No one should ever go down
to the basement, period.
(victim screaming)
See (laughs)?
Oh, hey, I'm sorry your
sister's too afraid to stay
with us on her last night.
- I mean, hey,
at least we got the place to ourselves.
Ooh, that's true.
Oh, my God, was that you?
- I think it was your candle.
- Oh my God (laughs).
(thumping outside)
Sounds like the neighbors are moving in.
At night?
- [Neighbor] No!
- Oh, my God.
Sounds like they need a hand.
Hello?
I must have just missed them.
So tomorrow let's go
say hello to them, okay?
- I'm turning it, I'm beat.
- Oh, okay.
I'll be in in a while.
(cartoon music on TV)
Yes?
Hon?
What are you...?
(door creaking)
Ben?
Ben?
Okay, if you open one more time,
I'm gonna be a little freaked out.
- What the fuck was that?
- I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
(glass breaking)
Aw...
Jesus!
Not funny, Ben!
Oh!
Ah, gross!
Alex, I'm gonna go see
my sister off before work.
Good luck with that submission today.
Thank you.
Oh, I'm gonna go upstairs
and meet our neighbors later.
- Nice.
Bye.
(suspenseful music)
(child coughing)
(carnival music)
Excuse me.
You sell pictures taken at
the "Spook-a-Rama," right?
- [Vendor] Yep.
- So a friend of mine
rode yesterday, and I'd
like to surprise her.
Is it possible to print out
some pictures from yesterday?
- Yeah.
- Great.
Ah, that's it! That's her. I'll take it.
- Okay, $7.
- Thank you.
Don't let nerves get the best of you.
Ask your doctor about Raehydu
and say goodbye to your life
long fears and anxieties.
Okay...
Is anxiety holding you
back from your dreams?
Ask your doctor about Raehydu,
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Side effects may include
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Stop taking Raehydu if you
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from the mouth, ears, or rectum,
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(scream and thud)
(muffled voices)
Is there anybody there?
Okay, I'm documenting this.
I came in the bathroom because
I heard some crazy sounds
from inside, but the
water was just running
in the sink all by itself.
That's fucked up.
(pipes clanking)
Gah!
(Alex gasping)
Whoa!
Oh my God, I think I'm gonna barf.
God!
Ugh! That was nasty!
Benny, Benny, Benny!
(phone ringing)
- [Ben on phone] Hey, toots!
- Hey.
- What's up?
- You owe me big time, bud.
Oh, yeah, why?
Because I just worked my ass off
cleaning all that black mold out of the
- Alex, you there?
- Oh my God.
What, what happened?
(phone beeping)
Alex?
- Ben, it's my agent,
hang on.
- What, what happened?
- Hello?
- [Agent] Alex,
what did you send me?
- Huh?
[Agent] Your voice over
submission, it's a total garble.
- What?
- [Agent] It's a total garble.
Oh... Oh my God, I'm so
sorry. I can rerecord it.
[Agent] No, no, no. It's too late.
Get your act together,
Alex, you embarrassed me.
I'm so sorry.
Ben, I don't know what's
going on here, man.
[Ben] What? What happened?
[Alex] I don't know what's going on.
[Ben] Alex, you're not making sense.
[Alex recording] Is
anxiety holding you back
(recording becomes distorted)
(recording screeching)
Raehydu.
[child's voice] Mom... Mom...
[Alex] Raehydu...
(backwards voice)
[Alex] Raehydu...
- [child] Mom.
- [Alex] Raehydu.
- [child] Mom.
- [Alex] Raehydu.
[Backwards Alex Voice] We die here.
[child] Mom?
[Alex backwards] We die here.
[child] Mom?
[Alex backwards] We die here.
[child] Help me!
Lorne, what do you want for lunch?
Mm, I'm really in the mood
for that Mongolian place.
- They don't deliver.
- Yeah.
I'm really in the mood
for that Mongolian place.
Well, I guess it's
dead. I could use a walk.
See you in a bit.
- Bye.
Where are you?
Now, where are you?
Where are you?
[Echoey Lorne] Where are you?
- Hey, I'm home.
- Oh my God! Ben,
you have got to come and listen to this.
Okay, wait, wait, wait,
I've got to take a piss.
What the fuck happened in here?
It's the mold.
- You said you cleaned it!
- I did.
Well, what did you use, Miracle Grow?
Listen to me!
I recorded my voice over
audition earlier today,
and then when I played it backwards.
Okay... Whoa... No! No
rational conversation
ever followed the words,
"when I played it backwards."
Listen to me!
(intercom buzzing)
- Are you expecting somebody?
- No.
Hello?
(garbled voices)
That's weird.
- Ben, we gotta move out.
What are you talking about?
We just moved in. We were just talking
about having a house warning party.
I know, this place is bad.
I mean, can't you feel it?
- Where would we even go?
- I don't know.
A hotel maybe?
- We can't afford that.
- Just for one night then.
- No, look
(intercom buzzing)
Hello?
(garbled voices)
(buzzing door)
New neighbors
probably locked themselves out.
Look, you were the one
who was afraid this place
might be haunted.
- No, I was afraid you
would freak out.
Let's not pretend that
you don't have a history
(pounding on door)
Hello?
Don't open that door!
It's the door. I'm gonna open it.
Hello?
Hello?
There's nobody there.
Oh, that was nobody, practically
breaking the door down.
It's probably somebody who's
looking for the neighbors.
What sense does that even make?
Ben, there is something seriously
fucked up going on here.
Read the writing on the wall.
I don't know what you're talking about.
What?
There's nothing there.
Come on, let's go.
- You can't see that?
Let's go. Let's just go in here.
- You can't see that there?
- There's nothing there.
Look at me. Look, look.
I think it's time when we
go see Dr. McMichaels again.
Come on, let's sit down.
(pop music)
I don't care what Ben and my shrink say,
there is something wrong
with that apartment.
But you did see a shrink, right?
Oh, yeah. You'll never
guess what she prescribed
for me: Raehydu. It's the drug
that I just auditioned for.
You supposed to be
drinking while taking that?
No.
You're just under a lot of stress.
God, Hedy, you're worse than them.
- Worse than they.
- That can't be right.
Trust me, I was captain of
the high school grammar team.
Which you never let me forget.
Oh God, you must've been so cool.
Anyways, you had to overextend yourself
to get this apartment.
Now that you're in a situation
where you can't afford
to move again, your brain is punishing you
by creating scenarios where you'd have to.
Damn, girl, you are
better than my shrink.
Psychological insight, killer bod.
Why'd you ever leave me?
Uh, I think it was because
of all the screaming fights.
[TV Host] After
reviewing all our footage,
our paranormal investigation team has come
to a conclusion about the
strange phenomena in your home.
[Home Owner] Is it a ghost?
[Host] No, it's a squatter
living in your crawl space.
[Home Owner] So then
it's not supernatural?
[Host] That's right,
it's just the result
of a nationwide affordable
housing crisis combined
with decades of underinvestment
in mental health.
(intercom beeping)
- [Home Owner] Oh, thank God!
Who is it?
(unintelligible)
I'm sorry, did you say "murderer"?
[Delivery Person] Burger.
You ordered a burger
from Sidney's Five.
- Oh, "burger."
Yeah, that makes more sense.
(buzzing door)
(oven rattling)
Hello?
Ben! Oh my God! What...
(Ben's head banging)
Ben, Ben, Ben!
Shit! You scared me.
I scared you? What were you doing?
Something's written
on the back of the oven.
I was trying to read it.
Well, what did it say?
It said, "Don't stick your head in here."
This apartment is driving you
to do self-destructive things.
I have always done
self-destructive things.
Don't tell me you don't feel it.
Dear God, you won't even go into the room
with the typewriter in it.
It's on my list.
You just get these weird
ideas about the paranormal,
like after we saw "Hamilton,"
and then you went to the Aaron Burr house
to try and harass his ghost.
You're a real jerk, Aaron Burr.
Ma'am, please leave.
Anyway, I just found out
I've gotta go to a conference.
Oh my God, are you kidding me?
[TV ad] ...anxiety. Side
effects may include nausea,
dry mouth, abnormal ejaculation...
Motherfucker.
Is this the ad you tried out for?
Yes.
[TV ad] ...explosive diarrhea
that may be difficult to predict.
Stop taking Raehydu if you
experience uncontrolled bleeding
from the mouth, nose or rectum...
Sorry, babe.
[TV ad] ...or suicidal
thoughts or actions.
Please don't have suicidal
thoughts or actions.
Don't worry. I'm only
having homicidal thoughts.
[TV ad] Don't take
Raehydu if you are allergic
to Raehydu or its ingredients.
Fatal incidents have occurred.
Hey!
What?
[TV ad] Ask your doctor about Raehydu
and say goodbye to your
lifelong fears and anxieties.
Stop taking Raehydu if some
other bitch gets the job.
(glass shattering)
Shit!
Hello?
(bowl shattering)
What are you doing?
Please don't do this, you don't want to.
(bowl shattering)
Can you hear me?
If you're in there, please don't
You don't belong here!
(Lorne gasping)
- It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. I've got you. You're okay.
What the hell are you doing?
I don't know.
You're smashing all our stuff?
I must have been sleepwalking.
That's a side effect of the drug.
- Jesus!
- Well, you're the one
who wanted me to see a shrink.
Well, we got people
coming over in a week.
What are we gonna serve 'em stuff in?
Well, you always said
we have too many bowls!
If I were crazy
I'd write your name across my head
In purple crayon with big Crayola
I'd never wash it
I wouldn't have to
If I were crazy
The voices wouldn't let me be
They'd talk in Spanish,
talk in German,
I'd never get a word in edgewise
If I were crazy
(music playing on phone)
(music playing through stereo)
- You look great.
- Thank you.
- Feeling okay?
- Yeah.
Oh yes, you do.
(ceiling rattling)
- [Neighbor] Oh my God!
- Did you invite them?
- They're never home.
I slid a note under the door though,
so maybe they'll show up.
Well, clearly they're home now.
(suspenseful music)
- Tonight's gonna be fun.
- Yeah.
We finally got the
place all put together.
We got the mold under control.
You're feeling more settled.
Things are looking up.
- [Alex] Oh!
- [Ben] What the fuck?
[Inhuman Voice] Stay out!
[Ben] I think the fuses
are in the basement.
- I'll go.
- Oh, I thought you
were never going to the basement.
(door creaking)
(suspenseful music)
(Alex gasping)
Oh, shit!
Oh, it's funny.
Oh God.
Oh, what's this?
Oh, cool.
(upbeat music)
(intercom buzzing)
(music playing through stereo)
You should see all the crazy
shit that's down there.
Plus there's a secret exit
out the back of the building.
Oh, that's cool. Uh,
people are already arriving.
Oh. Oh, Oliver, thanks for coming!
[Ben] Lemme make you a drink?
- Thanks.
- Come on in.
Hey, I'm Oliver.
- Lisa, I live here.
- Oh, the neighbor.
You moved in last month, right?
I guess. I've kind
of lost track of time.
There's something wrong
with this building.
It's better than mine.
There are all these strange noises.
Marco says it's the plumbing.
At least you have plumbing.
The landlord turned mine off.
He's trying to drive me out
so he can raise the rent.
But I don't have anything saved to move.
My whole retirement plan
is hoping I die early.
There are all these banging noises.
Mine too, they're gutting
the apartment next to mine.
And blood runs down the walls.
Okay...
My apartment doesn't do that.
Marco doesn't believe
me. He never believes me.
He deserves what I did to him.
Olive?
You're the first one here.
So this isn't just a housewarming.
It's actually a sendoff party as well
because Ben's gotta go to
some huge conference tomorrow
and leave me...
Are you okay? Oliver?
Oliver?!
Oh my God! Ben, call 911!
Ben! He's choking, choking, choking!
Here, here, here, here!
Where's my phone? Where's my phone?
Where's your phone?
- I don't know, in my pocket.
I don't know.
- Oh, God! No it's not!
Well go get somebody! Go
get the neighbors, or the...
Just get somebody!
Come on, man, breathe!
(ribs breaking)
[Paramedic 1] Jesus, these stairs!
- Up here, hurry!
- [Paramedic 2] Sorry, ma'am,
we're responding to an
emergency in Apartment Two.
Yeah, this is Apartment Two!
That's the third floor.
Yes, Apartment Two
is on the third floor.
That doesn't make any sense.
Must be like in France.
- Hurry, please!
- We're coming.
More stairs!
Ugh, I need a minute.
My friend has choked on
something and he's not breathing.
Ma'am, one second.
Vic, you okay?
It's just a lot of stairs.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
You have got to come and help us!
Ma'am, please, I'm dealing
with an emergency here.
Well, my friend is not breathing!
Hang in there, buddy. We're
gonna get you to the hospital.
No, no, no, no, no,
I don't have insurance.
- We've been doing CPR.
- Do you know CPR?
I've seen it on TV.
Amateurs!
How's his pulse?
- He doesn't have one!
- How long?
- I don't know!
Like 15, 20 minutes?
Yeah, he's dead.
Drink this.
Ma'am, please! I'll be there in a minute!
- Lorne.
- Oh, so rude!
Where the hell have you been?
- I went out walking.
- After midnight?
- Out in the moonlight.
- What is going on?
You've been distant, you
disappear for hours. Are...
Are you seeing someone?
No, no, no!
Okay, you're not going to like this, but
I could use your help on some research.
We did everything we could.
At least that
paramedic is okay.
You can't still say
that there is nothing crazy
happening inside this apartment.
Oliver wasn't killed by a ghost.
He was killed by an olive.
Where was my phone?
I can't keep track of your phone!
I gotta pack.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You are not going.
I can't just not go to the conference.
Have you given any thought
to my responsibilities?
I think under the circumstances
they would understand.
Do you understand how
much pressure I'm under
from everybody else at work?
From these kids? And we need this job!
I mean, it's not like
you've been booking a lot
of voiceovers lately.
Get out.
Okay, okay. To be clear,
you're mad I'm leaving,
so you want me to leave sooner?
Just fucking go!
Hey, how you doing?
(footsteps upstairs)
(phone ringing)
Hello?
[Hedy on phone] Alex, you okay?
Hedy?
We were gonna meet for drinks at 6:00.
It's almost 7:00.
Yeah, six o'clock at
night. I know I'm a wreck,
but I'm not a drinking
in the morning wreck
yet.
- It is night.
I slept all day?
Wow, well, after what you
went through last night,
it totally makes sense.
- No, it doesn't.
(child laughing)
Hedy?
- Yeah?
I hear sounds coming from the next room.
Will you stay on the line?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Hedy, there's a door in this room.
Yeah, well, most rooms have doors.
No, another door.
I walked through one door,
and now there's another door.
Is this some kind of
philosophical statement?
I'm gonna call you back.
(phone ringing)
[Hedy on phone] Hello?
Hedy, our apartment
has another secret room.
Alex, it's 4:00 in the morning.
What did you say?
It's 4:00 in the morning.
Please, you need to sleep.
I promise, this is gonna look
better in the morning, okay?
- Sleep.
- Yes, okay.
Yeah, okay.
[Alex recorded] Is
anxiety holding you back
from your dreams? Ask
your doctor about Raehydu,
a prescription medication for
moderate to severe anxiety.
Side effects may include
nausea, dry mouth,
abnormal ejaculation, hallucinations,
irreversible change in skin
color, sleep paralysis,
sleep paralysis, sleep
paralysis, sleep paralysis...
These are known side effects.
These are just known side effects.
(child laughing)
Oh my God!
Stop taking Raehydu if
you experience bleeding.
That does it!
Oh, you think you're so bad?
I have had way worse roommates than you!
And I will not be bullied
out of my dream apartment!
I've had a roommate with
a serious gas problem!
I've had a roommate
take a shit in the sink!
I've had a roommate
fuck a dog on the couch,
and I have had a roommate that composted!
So I am definitely not afraid of you!
I will sage the fuck outta this place!
My God, you don't even have a body!
Look at me! I've got arms and legs
(phone ringing)
[Hedy on phone] Hey, what's up?
Heddy, I need your help.
I got you, babe. What do you need?
Pants, I need fucking pants!
Shit was just like being thrown at me.
I mean like a lamp was thrown at me.
Maybe the apartment was built
on an Indian burial ground or something.
Isn't all of a Manhattan built
on an Indian burial ground?
I don't know. Look, if
there's an answer to be found,
it's probably from this guy.
Hi, is this the Miraculous Mr.
Moon's Fortune Consultation?
That's my grandfather. I
do the consultations now.
Well, here's the thing, I
have ghosts in my apartment.
Is this like a Halloween attraction?
No, actual ghosts, like
shit flying off shelves.
- Could it be a draft?
- Um, that's what I said.
No, I have real ghosts,
and I need real mystical guidance
from the Miraculous Mr. Moon.
Oh, I see.
A book falls off your shelf,
and you come down to Chinatown
and find an old man with all the answers.
What kind of racist '80s B movie
do you think you're living in?
Aren't you a fortune teller?
Fortune consultant, we
help you make a fortune.
It's business seminars, not mystical shit.
All right, well, what's with all this
Miraculous Mr. Moon business then?
Okay, my grandfather came here
without a cent in his
pocket or a word of English
and became a successful textile importer.
That's pretty fucking miraculous.
It is.
So unless you've got a business idea,
get the fuck outta my office.
Puppies on demand.
- What?
- You rent 'em by the hour.
It's like an escort service,
only for puppy cuddling.
- Huh.
- Oh my God!
We'll talk.
(upbeat music)
Oh my God, I cannot go
back to that apartment again.
You can stay with me until Ben's back.
Are you sure?
That's asking a lot?
- What are exes for?
I can't tell you what it was like.
When shit started flying
through the air coming at me,
I was so scared, I literally shit myself.
I hope you didn't literally,
"literally shit" yourself.
I came close, grammar
captain, my captain, very close.
(phone buzzing)
Ben, I just cannot right now.
What am I gonna tell
him, that I'm too scared
to go back to our apartment?
He's gonna think I'm fucking crazy.
So what if you call that guy on TV
who talks to dead people?
Oh, no, no, no, he had
a Me Too issue, I think.
What about this guy?
Televangelist says he
can drive out demons.
Uh, I'm pretty sure that he
had a sexual harassment
claim against him as well.
Look, Hedy, I have ghosts in my apartment.
I'm not gonna invite a sex
monster in on top of it.
Well, maybe just a regular
priest can do an exorcism.
(coughs) The Catholic church?
Are you even listening to me?
- Mm, how about this one?
They sound like "The Conjuring" couple,
only gay.
- Aw.
Seems safe, right?
(determined music)
Oh dear.
You!
I've been expecting you.
You're the guy who grabbed me.
- I can explain that.
- He can. I promise.
He's not creepy.
- So, I've been following you
and I found out where you live.
- Uh, how is that not creepy?
- You are making it sound
a little creepy, hon.
Okay, it sounds creepy, I admit it.
Lorne's a little creepy, but
he has a good heart. I'm Ned.
- I'm Alex.
- Tell her what you found out.
I consulted this book of dark secrets.
What is that, the Necronomicon?
It's a history of Manhattan real estate.
Now your building was erected in 1851
as a single family residence.
(Lorne laughing)
You said erected.
(phone ringing)
I'm sorry, go on.
Three workers died in the construction.
The first owners were Ephraim
and Fanny Wigglesworth.
- Sorry, seriously?
- [Lorne] Funny names, huh?
They are, they really are.
They suffered horrible deaths.
Their three-year-old
daughter got a hold of a gun.
See now, if they had also had guns,
they would've been able
to defend themselves.
The only thing that can stop
a bad toddler with a gun...
Anyway, the girl shot off
their knees and their genitals.
(gun shots, screaming)
They slowly bled to death,
and the girl starved
and died in her own filth.
(snorts) Fanny (laughs).
(Alex laughing)
They were all found in
the third floor parlor.
- Which is now our apartment.
- Right. After that,
it was home to a civil war surgeon
who came home and dismembered his family,
some circus folk who died in
a knife-throwing accident,
a mad artist who mixed her
own blood with the paint
until she didn't have any left.
- Gross.
- There have been
193 homicides,
117 suicides,
37 heart attacks,
three autoerotic asphyxiations,
one death by
peanut allergy,
42 fatal falls down the stairs,
eight deaths by fire,
one tenant eaten by his own dog.
I wish they had told
me they allowed dogs.
We've been really wanting to get one.
- Aw.
- The point is,
every time someone new has
signed a lease on your unit,
three people have died, exactly three.
The number three came
up on my television set.
And then right after my
friend died, it said two.
Right. The apartment's
going to kill two more people.
Now, the building's
had a number of owners.
In 1989, it was purchased
by a shell company
owned by a holding company owned by an LLC
with a PO box in Romania.
So we have no idea who the real owner is,
but the lease holder on
your unit is Reena Baker.
Now, since you're not
actually on the lease...
No, technically we're subletting.
Yes, so I think Reena Baker is using you
to get the three deaths outta the way
so she can move back in.
Ah! Okay, well then, how come the ghosts
are coming after me sometimes
when I'm not even in the apartment?
And why aren't they going after her?
Well, how the hell should I know?
You think there's a rule book on all this?
- No, I just...
- Excuse me, I know
how disappointing it must be
that I've only been able
to unravel 170 years
of well hidden history,
cross-reference hundreds
of coroners' reports,
and derive a pattern,
the understanding of which
may save your very life.
- Thank you.
- I'm sorry that I'm not
also able to fully explain the realm
beyond this mortal coil.
- I am very grateful.
What do I do?
I don't know.
You could probably Airbnb it,
let someone else take the hit.
I'm not gonna invite
people to be killed.
It's gonna happen one way or the other.
Even if you move out, it's
just gonna get somebody else.
Isn't there a way to drive
the evil out of the apartment?
- Yes.
- No.
Someone with a stronger psychic force
could drive the evil out.
- Stronger than what?
This apartment feeds on
souls. It's already eaten 500.
It's stronger than you can imagine.
It's going to take two more souls soon,
and it's not gonna be ours. I'm sorry.
There's gotta be somebody.
This guy gave me his card once.
He claims he's a psychic.
He's probably full of shit.
Most of them are.
I don't know what else to tell you.
What about this Baker
woman? Where is she?
Oh, you don't wanna go looking for her.
Trust me.
She lives on Staten Island.
(ferry horn)
Oh, I am going to lay into her so hard.
Yeah, but you said she was an old lady.
I don't care.
She used us as ghost bait.
You better hold me back,
or I'm gonna turn her into a ghost.
God!
(ominous music)
(phone ringing)
Oh my God, could Ben have worse timing?
Hey Alex, are you sure
this is the right place?
It looks like a storage facility.
I know, right? Well,
they've got a unit number.
Oh, hello.
- Ms. Baker?
- Please come in.
All right, you old bat,
you have some serious explaining to do.
Ms. Baker, do you live in here?
It's all I can afford.
Uh-uh, don't gimme some pity party
while you're literally trying
to kill my husband and I.
- My husband and me.
- Not now, Hedy.
I'm sorry. I didn't
know what else to do.
And we pay you two grand a month.
I mean, that's not a lot.
But come on, you can do better
than a storage unit on Staten Island.
That's barely enough
to cover my medications.
You don't know me.
When my husband died, I lost the house.
Our son OD'd.
I didn't have anyone to help me.
I thought I was going to be homeless.
And then I found what looked
like the perfect apartment
at a price I could actually afford.
I didn't know its history.
After I moved in, things
started happening.
When I found out the
truth about the place,
I was scared.
I didn't know what to do.
It was trying to kill me.
I know. I am so sorry for your losses.
I guess you were just doing
what you thought you had to do.
Look,
maybe there's a way that we
could drive the ghost out,
and then you could move back in.
Do you think that's possible?
Honey, two days ago,
I didn't think any of this
was possible, so who knows?
But listen, what you did was still wrong.
I know. I just didn't know what to do.
I thought that that colored broker,
she might rent it to some coloreds
and then it wouldn't matter so much.
- I'm sorry, what?
- Or maybe some queers.
I mean, who's gonna miss them?
Or maybe the Japs. Those
slanty-eyed bastards
are taking over the neighborhood.
It's not good.
- Oh my God!
- What?
- Okay, we're going.
Are you fucking kidding me?
- Young lady, language.
- Oh my God!
We are gonna drive those ghosts out,
but you are never getting
that apartment back,
you racist, homophobic bitch!
- How dare you?
Don't engage. It was
really nice to meet you.
Make America great again!
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no!
Well, that could have gone worse.
I really don't see how.
Mm, she called you young lady.
Oh God, Hedy,
look, I still don't have any answers.
I have no money. I have
no career, effectively,
and I am about to be
homeless. I have nothing.
That is not true.
You have a beer.
- And that is a good thing.
- And you have a friend.
- Almost as good.
- What about that guy
that the couple from Coney
Island referred you to?
Well, I wouldn't exactly
call it a referral.
They gave me some guy's card
and said he's probably full of shit.
Hmm, beggars and choosers.
Hedy, I can't thank you enough.
I think you literally saved my life.
And I mean "literally" literally.
Just that you believed me.
Of course I believe
you, and I believe in you.
You will never have nothing
because I will always
be there if you need me.
I think I know something
that will cheer you up.
There is a show tune for every situation.
- Not haunted apartments.
- Yes.
Hey, do you have the karaoke tracks
for the Edgar Allan Poe musical?
Yes!
(music)
When I'm wakened in the night
By creaking footsteps in the hall
Or the crying of a cat
That I've bricked up inside the wall
I think of you and suddenly
I'm not scared of them at all
For the passion that you stir
Could make the House of Usher fall
Thoughts of you haunt me
Like evil spirits, they taunt me
And if you don't want me
I'll get drunk and
go die in the street
I can't be near you
My conscience tells me to fear you
With fettered words, my dear, you
Enchain me in this
prison that's so sweet
Even on a midnight dreary
I'll never get weary,
if it's yes to my query, my dearie,
let's elope on the double.
We'll make a castle out of a hovel.
I give you my heart till death do us part,
maybe longer if I can find a shovel.
Can a passion once entombed
Return to life when re-exhumed
Tell me that my hopes aren't doomed
And the love that I crave
won't get left in the grave
Ravens are singing
My heart's a pendulum swinging
Can't help it, I'm flinging
Myself into this dangerous new start
We can't be apart
So please don't break
My tell-tale heart
(audience applauding)
- Oh, Hedy.
- Oh wow.
I don't know how you always manage
to make me feel better.
I don't know how I
managed to let you go.
- Oh God.
- Sorry.
- I gotta go.
- Go where?
I can't stay with you anymore.
(ominous music)
Hello?
(phone ringing)
[Ben on phone] Alex?
Ben, hi, how are you?
I've been worried sick.
You haven't answered my
calls. Is everything okay?
Yeah, everything's fine.
I'm just here in our
apartment. Everything's normal.
Everything's clean and...
Everything's clean and tidy.
Oh yeah, great,
'cause I guess I'm not
around to mess stuff up, huh?
(typewriter clacks)
I gotta go.
Hold on, hold on. I
gotta tell you something.
- No, I'll call you back.
- I'm on my way home.
I left the conference early
'cause I was worried about you. Alex?
(typewriter clacks)
You shouldn't have come back!
(phone ringing)
[Voice on phone] Good evening.
Hi, uh, is this "The Great Manfredo?"
Why, yes.
Do you do emergency house calls?
(carnival music, fireworks)
- Oh no!
- What?
That apartment,
it's going to kill the last two people.
We've got to go!
- What, and be the two people?
You don't understand.
If you knew, deep down in your soul knew
somebody was going to be hurt,
you'd do everything you could to stop it.
That's why I'm trying to stop you.
Fine, let's go.
How can there be no cars available?
Subway.
- Subway.
Come on, come on, come
on, come on, come on.
- That doesn't help.
- Shut up.
- Don't tell me to shut up.
- Don't talk to me.
I have to warn you, this is
some pretty fucked up shit.
Since I was small child,
I have been in constant communication
with the spirits of the other side.
The phantom,
the wampyr,
the were vulva,
They frighten me not.
Okay, well, this is the place.
This is quite charming.
Oh, you say that now.
You have all this space to yourself?
Oh no, I share this with my husband.
And where is he now?
Oh, business trip.
Oh, how inconvenient.
All right, how do we
start? What do we do?
First, we must brew some tea.
Okay.
Eat-in kitchen... How much you pay?
Can we just stick to...?
Okay, well, I've got
Sleepy Time and chamomile.
There's some mint, and...
- I have brought my own.
It must be loose leaves for me to read.
Oh, okay, but we're not just gonna
have like a fortune telling thing, right?
We're gonna have a full-on
exorcism, right?
I was about 12 years old
when I performed my first exorcism.
You will have peace in this house tonight.
I swear upon my life.
Okay.
Make yourself at home.
[Announcer] Stand clear
of the closing doors.
- [Lorne] Finally.
- What stop is it?
- Um, 2nd Avenue.
- 24 stops away.
I must read your palm.
Is this really necessary?
Yes, yes indeed, it is.
Have no fear, my dear.
Uh, this is making me
really uncomfortable.
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
Oh, no, no, no, no, oh,
no, no, no, no, no! Oh no!
You look faint, my dear.
Perhaps the spirits have overcome you.
Oh no! Oh, no, no, no!
Stop it!
But you called me in
the middle of the night,
when your husband was
away, and I have come to
(door bursting)
Holy fuck, what was that?
Oh my God!
Ow!
Augh!
How did you do that?
Ah, oh!
I'm shitting myself. I'm
actually shitting myself.
Oh my God!
I'm still shitting!
Still think it's charming?
(neck snapping)
(dramatic music)
For Christ's sake,
I know you're just
walking slowly behind me
to scare the bejesus out of me.
Just fucking catch me
already and get it over with.
(dildo squeaking)
Really? The basement is the only option?
Motherfucker!
[Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
we are being held momentarily
by the train's dispatcher.
Thank you for your patience.
(old record playing)
Hello, Georgie, hello, George
(Alex screaming)
Are you sure you're all alone?
Oh, you've come to see my masterpiece!
Are you sure you're all alone?
Oh, oh!
(ghoul laughing)
(Alex screaming)
(whistle howling)
Oh my God.
You look like you could use a drink.
Yes, because I
survived. I am the victor.
I won, and I am never going
into that apartment again.
I don't care what Ben says.
I've had some apartments
like that myself.
Oh God! Hey, is there a place back there
where I could plug this in?
- Sure.
Thank you so much.
Oh, well, at least I have a few days
before I have to try to
explain things to Ben.
(messages chiming)
I guess you missed some messages.
Oh, God. What does it say?
Uh, Ben: "I am coming home,"
"I am at Grand Central."
- No, no, no, no.
- "Just got a cab."
"I'm almost home."
- Oh, no, no!
"Pulling up now."
Oh, no, no, no!
Come on, pick up!
(phone buzzing)
[Ben's voicemail]
Hey, you've reached Ben.
Don't leave a message
'cause it's really not a thing anymore.
(phone beeping)
- Ben, whatever you do,
do not go into that
apartment! Do not go upstairs!
The apartment is going to
kill one more person tonight,
and I am not fucking
around! Do not go upstairs!
That place sounds like a real shit hole.
Oh God, I gotta go!
(unholy howling)
Alex!
We just need one more.
- Don't go in.
- I have to.
- Don't go in.
- I have to.
- I can't lose you.
- You're not going to.
Ben!
Oh, I see you've met our roommates.
Oh, shit.
Stop!
They can't hurt us. I won't let them.
No, but you can hurt each other.
Ben! Ben!
Ben, Ben, Ben, what are you doing?
Ben, what are you doing?
I don't know.
What did I do?
What did I do?
(Lorne wheezing)
It's not his fault.
He can't be blamed.
I can't regret
doing good.
We were young back then,
But not too young to know
I wonder if you knew
How much I loved you so
Lost at sea, we were drifters there
Not headed for the coast
Memories of holding you
Waft right in like a ghost
(Alex knocking)
[Reena] I'm not here!
Okay, you win.
You were counting on the
apartment to kill three people,
and now you could go claim your reward.
I hope you feel just great about it.
That's kind of you.
You could've hidden it
and kept the apartment for yourself.
You think I still wanna live there?
Oh honey, please! Lemme
tell you something.
There is nothing in that apartment
that is as evil as you.
You flatter me.
Let's go.
Memories of lovin' you
- There's no place like home.
Enfold me like a ghost
That's when I miss you
Most of all
Hey!
I miss you most
- How is he?
- Seems like he'll be okay.
It's a miracle.
Ned, I'm so sorry.
- Can we see him?
- It's, uh, probably better
if you stay away for now.
Cops still have a lot of
questions about exactly how this
woodworking accident happened.
I'm so sorry.
(Reena panting)
(eerie music)
Home again, home again, jiggity jig!
Oh shit.
(Reena screaming)
(flesh tearing)
(thud)
(Christmas music)
Hey now!
Thank you.
I still think you're brave to stay.
Well, supposedly we're safe for now,
but if somebody else moves
in, they wouldn't be.
At least that's what Lorne
said when I asked him.
When you axed him?
- Not funny.
- What?
I thought, you two buried the hatchet.
Okay, don't...
Thank you.
So the old lady stays on the lease.
Yep. She's got no family.
So as long as we pay the rent,
apparently nobody knows she's gone.
(Ben knocking on wood)
(something knocking back)
(intercom buzzing)
(unearthly moaning)
Uh, think that's Lorne and Ned.
Hi, welcome! Wou're looking wonderful.
Hey, hey! Hey, welcome.
Could I get you a drink?
Oh no, thank you.
When I drink now it all dribbles
out the hole in the front.
(Lorne laughing)
May I make a toast please?
Here's to good friends
and an apartment big
enough to entertain them.
Seriously!
When is the last time you
saw a Manhattan apartment
with an eat-in kitchen?
Listen people, and listen well
I've got myself a little story to tell
The kind that make you sweat
Turn you into wreck
Make the hair stand up
on the back of your neck
Fucking ghosts!
All right, fine!
It was a little funny.
- See?