Sinwood: Descent

Black Hollow used to be a mining hamlet. Now it’s fog, ash, and echoes—exactly what the final frame of a lost student film promised. Disgraced reporter Mara Ortega takes her hand-crank camera to finish their documentary, only to find the town re-shaped into seven concentric groves, each mirroring a deadly sin and a wound she refuses to face. An ash-coated figure—the Archivist—appears in flickering frames, urging Mara to record everything. Wallpaper breathes. Diners serve maggot-pies. Ledgers tally human debts. Sawmill blades sing without power. A church inverts. And at the frozen heart waits a bark-bound grimoire that wants our world spliced to something older and crueler. Shot through with scratch-etch textures, high-contrast monochrome, and micro-bursts of arterial red, Sinwood: Descent blends analog occult, folk horror, and psychological dread into a ritual of image and guilt. Finish the reel—or be edited out.

Dystopian Murder Mythical Occult Psychological Supernatural Teenagers (13-18)
Adults (18+)
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