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Our hero, an armed security guard, who "has a loaded gun and knows how to use it", is left-handed, but carries his gun on his right hip, in a holster for a right-handed person. So, he knows how to USE a gun, he just doesn't know how to CARRY a gun. That's some crack, Special Forces type skill there. Yep. Fer share.

The premise is that this security guard, Frank Castillo, is assigned to guard and patrol an empty mansion for one night. He has two explicit instructions: 1.) do not fall asleep, and; 2.) do not go into the maid's quarters. Frank spends the first 15 minutes of the movie running around the mansion, repeatedly holstering and unholstering the "loaded gun that he knows how to use" but doesn't know how to effectively carry. He runs to answer the mansion's sole phone, a landline, several times between bouts of holstering and unholstering his sidearm. Eventually, despite the explicit instruction not to fall asleep, Frank does off several times, and he starts to have brief nightmares.

To calm his frazzled nerves, Frank calls his boss seeking reassurance, and in response, his boss belittles and castigates Frank for calling. He tells Frank to just do his job, and that he'd damned well better not call him again. Frank sheepishly apologizes and hangs up.

Frank then calls his girlfriend and leaves a message, saying the he needs to talk to her, but that she doesn't have to listen to his message, but if she does listen to his message, would she please call him. Frank then begins to hear guttural, spectral whispers about how there "will be life and death" and that "there is no salvation but through the master". Frank then begins to curse and shout at the house that he's not afraid, and that "this s**t is getting weak!".

Shortly after this, a woman knocks at the door, asking to be let in because "it's not safe out". Frank waffles about letting her in, as he isn't supposed to allow anyone into the house, but he eventually relents and allows her to come in.

Frank and the mystery woman hit it off, even after she rather cryptically asks him repeatedly if he trusts her. They make small talk and drink wine, and the woman gives Frank a story about having escaped from somewhere, and that he car broke down. That's how she ended up knocking at the door.

The mystery woman seduces Frank, and they have sex in the master bedroom. During vigorous sex, she slaps him across the face several times, which Frank endures without adverse reaction. They start to fool around again, and the woman tells Frank that she's figured out a way to prove to him who she is. We learn that her name is Carrie, and she darts out of the bedroom.

The phone rings, and it's the owner of the mansion, Bill. Frank tells Bill that Carrie is there; Carrie is supposedly Bill's daughter. Bill castigates and insults Frank, and tells him that thw woman can't be his daughter Carrie, as she died six years ago. Bill then calls Frank an irresponsible prick, and tells Frank that he's going to call Frank's boss.

Frank puts his uniform back on and starts searching the mansion for Carrie. He calls out to Carrie numerous times as he searches for her, but she doesn't respond. The movie then cuts to some spectral, evil figure, who says, "It's time, my followers; time to feed on this one's (Frank's) fears. After this, Frank begins to hear a female voice cackling, and he frets about calling his boss and asking for help. He was told by his boss not to call him again, and Frank is afraid that he'll be fired if he does.

Frank decides to call, but finds that the phone is dead. Frank prays to God to make the phone work so that he can call his boss, and the phone suddenly works. Frank calls his boss, and his boss denigrates and cusses him out for calling. Frank decides to flee, but hears the ghostly voice calling his name. He runs and hides in a closet, and Carrie shows up and begins to tease and torment him from outside of the closet. The "Master" shows up behind Carrie, and she begins cackling and screaming his name. Apparently, Frank has forgotten that he "has a loaded gun and knows how to use it".

Carrie asks Frank if he'd like to see her real face, and she presents him with a deformed, demonic countenance. The "Master" shows up and approaches Frank, with Carrie crawling next to him tethered by a dog leash and collar. The "Master" begins blathering on nonsensically about Frank now belonging to him. The "Master" tells Frank to "find peace in Hell", and to "burn in the fires of his God". The screen fades to black, and we hear Frank begin to scream. The End.

There is a brief blooper reel at the end of the movie, during the credits. This is not the stupidest horror movie that I've ever seen, but it is very, very close to it. It's short, only 65 minutes long, but that's about 64 minutes too long.

Another day, another indie horror film. This one's set in an empty mansion at night and follows a security guard as he wanders the building, checking on the security. The whole thing is shot with a blue filter which gives it quite an interesting look, but the lack of incident really hurts it and leads me to believe that it would have worked better as a short film. Towards the end there's an explicit sex scene and a twist ending which is suitably horrific, but despite some suspense and atmosphere it's just too slow to be a successful movie.