Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.
Direction
Callahan builds dread through silence, not jump scares.
Practical Effects
Creature design that'll haunt your peripheral vision.
Cinematography
Joshua Tree becomes its own beautiful, hostile character.
Director
Elle Callahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Hisji creature was deliberately kept off marketing materials so audiences discovered it blind.
Callahan based the Hisji on Southwestern skinwalker legends, but made it contagious through witness — the more who see it, the stronger it becomes.
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