PROTOCOL 731

The Premise: In the fading heat of the final night of summer, 1945, four friends-Danny, Mark, Zack, and Casey-gather for a simple night of cards to escape the looming shadow of the new school year. But as a violent storm lashes the small town of Mill Ridge, the "normal" world begins to fracture. It starts with flickering lights that hum with a mechanical drone and trees that vibrate with a rhythmic, unnatural intensity.

When the group splits up, the true horror of Protocol 731 begins to bleed into reality. While Danny is left alone in the dark with the shivering woods, Casey witnesses a chilling sight from her father's truck: a road lined with the silent, unblemished corpses of hundreds of animals.

As the town's authorities remain tight-lipped and the atmospheric pressure rises, the teenagers realize that something has been awakened in the woods-something born of science, kept in secret, and far more dangerous than the storm outside.