Wither (2012)

Ida and Albin head to an abandoned cabin with a group of friends. Albin’s father works for the power company so he can turn the power back on for their weekend trip.  Oddly enough they don’t have a key to the house but luckily Albin knows how to pick a lock.

One of the guys decides it would be funny to scare everyone and hoists a girl up through an unlocked window. Instead of positioning herself for a scare, she wanders around the room, finds a candle, and discovers a trap door to the basement.

Unadvisedly she climbs down the ladder into the basement and wanders around. The basement appears to a series of small rooms and when she finds a light on, surprisingly she is not alarmed.  Her fate is sealed when the sound of shuffling doesn’t send her running, but instead prompts her to walk toward the darkness and ask if any one is there. It’s not pretty.

When the group manages to get inside, she’s standing there with a dumb look on her face.  But she never mentions that she went into the basement or that there is a scary creature down there.  Instead she becomes a wet blanket who doesn’t feel good and doesn’t want to do anything.  Later that night she starts bleeding, collapses in the bathroom and the next time we see her, she’s looking sort of dead. Let the carnage begin.

This is essentially a Swedish version of Evil Dead. There’s no back story about what the creature is or how it got there. There’s no incantations or books that start it. It’s literally a creature in the basement of an abandoned house. So if you stay out of the basement, you’ll most likely be okay.  People are way to willing to go into a trap door in the floor of a creepy old house. Sure it’s fun to explore, but trap doors are a sign you should be wary.

One thing that is frustrating is when a man they saw in the woods comes into the house and tells them what is going on, they don’t believe him. While what he says seems ridiculous, they may want to be less skeptical since they just tied up one of their friends who seems insane because she just bit part of another girls face off.  Plus she looks like there’s something seriously wrong with her.  The man says if you get bitten, scratched or blood on you, you’re in trouble.  One of the girls was bitten and another had blood spit on her. But they don’t mention it at all and say they’re fine.