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For more than 70 years the Exeter Packing House,
with its foreboding red brick structure, clock
tower and blackened smokestack, has stood alone
in ominous silence amidst the industrial squalor
of Derbytown -- its empty and decayed interior
hiding a horrific past with a deadly secret
that’s patiently awaiting the light of day. But
famed architect Alex Cantrell has a vision. His
ambitious dream is to transform the aged
slaughterhouse (abattoir) into a thing of beauty
– the most elegant, well-designed and appointed
lofts the city has ever seen. The vision becomes
a quest as he decides to go all in – foregoing
his partnership in a leading architectural firm,
leveraging his life savings, and risking
everything (including his vast reputation) -- to
meet this ultimate challenge. Soon, residents
begin to move into the building, renamed the
Exeter Lofts, anxious to begin their new lives
in this one-of-a-kind abode. However, despite
his best intentions, Cantrell’s dream will soon
unleash unspeakable horror, resulting in an
unforgettable nightmare. One by one, the
residents begin to experience oddities – strange
animal-like smells that come and go, clocks and
timing devices that suddenly stop and start, the
industrial whine of gears and chains in the dead
of night, the sound of knives being sharpened,
and fanning clouds of warm blood appearing on
ceilings. Worse, the building’s very structure
is somehow bringing the resident’s deepest,
darkest fears to the surface. Over it all, a
hidden presence is lurking somewhere within the
abattoir’s walls -- sensing, listening,
watching. Is it a haunting? Is it the residual
negative energy that dates back to the
building’s original purpose as a slaughterhouse?
Is it a manifestation of pure evil? Or is it
something much, much worse. . . ?
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