Pyewacket 2018

Leah Reyes is a teenager drawn to black magic and occult practices. After the death of her father, her grieving mother, Mrs. Reyes, decides to move the family to a remote woodland house for a fresh start, forcing Leah to leave her school friends behind and join her.

After a fierce argument with her mother, Leah wishes death on her and performs an occult ritual in the forest from one of her books to summon the demon Pyewacket to kill her mother. However, Leah bonds with her mother shortly afterward, and she soon regrets her actions.

Strange occurrences begin to creep in: noises from the attic and piles of dirt on the floors unsettling the new home. One night, Pyewacket appears as a shadowy entity in Leah’s bedroom and drags her into the forest. Waking up the next day, Leah is covered in blood and turns to her school friends for help, with her best friend Janice agreeing to stay at Leah’s house overnight to help lift the curse. Yet the following morning, Leah and her mother find Janice cowering in the car, too terrified to speak.

Seeking guidance, Leah contacts paranormalist Rowan Dove, who explains that the only way to stop the demon is to perform the same summoning ritual in the same place, but in reverse. He also warns that Pyewacket is a devious shape-shifter and that Leah must not trust anyone until the curse is lifted.

Leah returns to the forest and begins the reverse ritual, but she stops when she sees her mother lying dead nearby, and then hears her mother calling out. In a panic, Leah dials 911, and then Aaron to pick her up. Back at the house, Pyewacket confronts Leah, first taking the form of Leah’s mother, then a monstrous hag. Leah hides in the attic, and when her mother returns home, she believes the illusion is over, so that night she douses her mother with gasoline and sets her on fire, convinced she is burning the demon. This act sets the house ablaze, and when Aaron arrives, he finds Leah unconscious outside as the building burns down.

Leah is later interviewed by a police detective about her mother’s death. After playing a recording of Leah’s 911 call in which she said her mother’s body was in the woods, the detective reveals that the only body the police found was a burned one in the ruins of the house.