Two working class youtubers ‘in the making’ enter an abandoned mansion to get their basketball back, and get lost inside while pranking each other. They record their ‘quick adventure’ with their phones for their audience, and tweak it with a fake phantom appearance to attract more followers to their YouTube channel. When uploaded the video goes viral, so they start a challenge: if the video reaches a certain number of views, they will enter the house again, at night, alone, totally unprotected. As fans react positively, they will do as promised, not only to discover and unveil the true nature of the place and their inhabitants, but to realize they might not be among the living anymore. Which opens a question - how far would you go to be famous?
Direction
Cardozo weaponizes phone cameras—vertical horror that mocks AND terrifies.
Writing
The twist recontextualizes every smug bro moment into tragedy.
Production
The mansion breathes; rooms loop, time fractures, architecture becomes antagonist.
Director
Hugo Cardozo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paraguayan director Hugo Cardozo uses the found footage format to excavate Stroessner dictatorship trauma—the mansion literally embodies state violence buried by history.
The vertical phone aspect ratio wasn't just aesthetic choice—Cardozo wanted audiences to feel like they were doom-scrolling their own deaths.
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