The slaughter shack

In the rural town of Maple Hollow, 39-year-old Matteo Bourbon runs the Bourbon Slaughter Shack, a butcher shop as storied and worn as the oak tree in the square. Matteo is a rugged man of discipline and routine, raising his imaginative nine-year-old daughter, Yasmine, in the aftermath of his wife Clarisse's mysterious death.
One day, a nervous stranger arrives with a strange cooler and an even stranger request: store the "animal" inside for three months no questions asked. Against his better judgment, Matteo agrees. When the cooler is opened, it reveals something beyond comprehension: a semi-sentient, speaking creature, something like a jellyfish or a squid, it's scared.
As Matteo hides the creature in the cellar, life above continues with increasing tension. Yasmine is drawn to the creature's loneliness, sneaking into the cellar and forming a bond. When the creature reveals it once knew Clarisse-and that she hid it before her death-old wounds reopen. Clarisse had found the alien and tried to protect it, and her silence cost her life.
As Matteo investigates Clarisse's past, he uncovers journals, maps, and a trail of missing people-all pointing to a local man named Dale Carter. Clarisse had tracked Carter's grotesque experiments and human disappearances, and it becomes clear she died trying to stop something evil. The alien watched it all-and now, so does Matteo.
Driven by grief and rage, Matteo confronts Dale, only to discover Clarisse's severed finger-still wearing her ring-kept like a trophy. In a blind fury, Matteo murders and butchers Dale in his own cabin, returning to the shop to dispose of the evidence the only way he knows how: the meat goes to market, fed to the very community that ignored Clarisse's warnings.
The act is both horrifying and purifying.
But it's not over.