West Mulholland

Each year on Halloween just before the harvest, the teenagers in a small farming community band together to try to stop Sawtooth Jack, a demon who rises from the cornfields and races to the town church killing anyone who gets in his way.

It’s there before the family even moves in. It witnesses the family’s most intimate uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed. It pays unusual attention to Chloe, the teenage girl who’s neither her mother’s nor her brother’s favorite. It wants — no, it needs — something. And as time goes on, the presence pieces together how it might accomplish its goal.