Mia passes out and Olivia goes to retrieve the gun used to shoot David, only to be ambushed by a possessed Mia, who pins her to the floor, before vomiting blood all over her. As the group discuss what to do about their predicament, Mia enters the room and shoots David in the shoulder suddenly, an unseen force enters the cabin, as a demonic voice warns the party that they will all soon be dead. He brings her back to the cabin, where Olivia uses her knowledge as a nurse to care for Mia's burns. David attempts to drive her to a nearby hospital, but discovers the roads are inaccesible to due to the rain. Realizing Mia is responsible, he goes to confront her, but discovers her scalding herself in the shower. David later discovers his dog, Grandpa, has been killed, bludgeoned with a hammer. They bring her back to the cabin, where she relays her encounter with the demonic forces in the woods to David, who dismisses this as another hallucination brought on by her drug withdrawal. Moments later, Mia is discovered by her friends in a disoriented state. Her doppelganger appears once again, vomiting up a slimy appendage, which rapes Mia, effectively possessing her.
As she attempts to crawl to safety, the briers seemingly tighten around her body, preventing her from escaping. When she attempts to swim to safety an unseen presence emerges from the water and pursues her through the woods Mia becomes disoriented and tumbles into a brier patch. An agitated Mia manages to escape the cabin by climbing out a window and leaving in Eric's vehicle, but swerves upon seeing a supernatural figure in the road, crashing into a nearby marsh. Mia begs for them to leave the cabin, but the others refuse, largely due to the fact that they believe she is only suffering from withdrawals. Eric reads a passage from the book, conjuring up a malevolent force, which begins tormenting Mia, appearing as a demonic doppelganger of herself. Upon arrival, Mia dumps the last remnants of her heroin down an old well the group soon discovers rotting feline corpses, a shotgun, and a book, entitled the Naturom Demonto, wrapped in plastic and barbed wire. Mia begs to leave the cabin, but the others refuse, believing she is hallucinating due to withdrawal.Ī group of young adults: David Allen, his girlfriend, Natalie, childhood friends, Olivia and Eric, and David's younger sister, Mia, travel to an isolated cabin in the woods, once used by David and Mia's parents as a vacation spot, in order to help Mia quit her drug addiction.
Mia is revealed to be superstitious and believes in protection from supernatural forces, in contrast with her brother, who is more skeptical of such things.Įarly in the film, Mia is tormented by an unseen presence, which appears to her as a demonic doppelganger of herself, possibly a physical representation of her addiction. This caused a rift in their relationship and possibly fueled Mia's drug addiction. Dialogue between the group reveals that David had seemingly abandoned Mia, leaving her to care for the ailing mother, who mistook her for her brother just before she passed. In the screenplay, Mia is revealed to be twenty-six years old, having been born in 1987 to her unnamed parents.