Then, even spookier things begin happening. Trevor has another horrific night terror. Ellison is attacked by a huge Rottweiler. And behind him, we see five ghost children standing menacingly in a row. Tracy finally understands the urgency of the situation and wants to leave immediately, but Ellison desperately needs to figure out the story.
Ellison's begrudging acceptance of Deputy So-and-So's help comes with a heavy dose of condescension until the deputy informs him politely that he has a master's degree in criminology. The deputy also knows that Ellison is hiding something, so the writer shows him the snapshots of the monster at each crime scene.
Ellison might still think a man is responsible for this, and the missing children were kidnapped, but when the deputy sees certain occult symbols, he says he'll get in touch with local expert Professor Jonas Vincent D'Onofrio. In the meantime, Ellison watches the last video, "Lawn Mowing," where a family has been lined up on their lawn, and an invisible figure runs a turbo lawnmower over their heads. Ellison jumps at this level of brutality, and he can't even finish the tape. We thank him for that.
The next day, Professor Jonas video chats with Ellison about his theory that the entity in the tapes is a pagan deity Bughuul, the Eater of Children. According to lore, Bughuul lures the children, gets them to kill their families, and then devours their souls over time.
As a result, Jonas thinks these might be ritualistic murders as cult initiation, but Ellison is beginning to think otherwise. Ellison then locks up all the tapes, but in the middle of the night, he hears his projector whirring and the murder tree film playing.
He's completely freaked out, and so are we as we watch the five ghost children follow Ellison around his house, taunting him even though he can't see them. While the deputy is chuffed to be part of a project helmed by one of his favorite writers, he's growing increasingly concerned that Ellison's paranoia might be stemming from the bottles of whiskey around the house, as well as a lack of sleep.
He also points out that they're sleeping in an actual crime scene. This isn't a healthy place to be. But Ellison insists he doesn't believe in the supernatural, even though he clearly believes in the monster in the videos.
Tracy also finally finds out that their own house is the one Trevor drew in his school picture of the murder tree. And now, Ashley is also drawing these dead figures around the house. Tracy pleads with Ellison that his family and his children are his legacy, not these books, but Ellison won't be swayed away from his project. When he wakes up again in the middle of the night to hear his locked-up projector running in the attic, Ellison goes to investigate.
That's when the five ghost children, along with Bughuul, jump out at him, causing another huge fall from the attic. Ellison finally realizes this is all wrong, and the danger is real. He burns all the films in the backyard and wakes up his family, saying, "We have to leave here.
We have to leave now! They get pulled over by the sheriff, but when he finds out they're leaving permanently and that Ellison has scrapped his book entirely, he lets them go with a warning to never come back. They never will Back at their old home, an enormous mansion that's much nicer than the Stevensons' murder house, Ellison begins dismantling all his murder boards and tossing out his project research.
He gets an email from Professor Jonas with more information about Bughuul, including images of the deity's familiars, who come in the shape of a scorpion, snake, and large dog — all animals Ellison had been in contact with since his time in the murder house. Jonas tells Ellison that images are gateways for the children that Bughuul grooms and steals, and when Ellison asks what might happen if you destroy the images, Jonas' face is extremely concerned as he thinks Ellison might be having a psychotic break.
Ellison deletes all his files, including the digitized Super 8 films, and he thinks that his nightmare is over. How wrong he is. See, when he goes up to their attic, he finds that the box of film canisters has followed them, along with an extra film called "Extended Cut Endings. Before he can, Deputy So-and-So calls to tell him that each family was murdered after they moved, so Ellison may have just put himself in a new line of fire. With tears in his eyes and a steely resolve, Ellison watches the extended cuts of the terrible home movies.
He discovers that the missing children weren't kidnapped at all. In fact, each missing child was the one who murdered their whole family before joining Bughuul's demented cohort. Ellison suddenly feels sick, and we think it's because of what he saw on the tapes, but when he starts foaming at the mouth, we realize he's been poisoned Ashley goes on to dismember her family off-screen, painting the house walls with their blood in dramatic sweeps that only Dexter Morgan could appreciate.
Ashley adds the drawing of her murdered family to the lid of the film box, situating Mr. The film follows the Oswalt family after moving to a new home with a gruesome history. As the film unravels, two members of the family become entranced with the supernatural occurrences happening around them. Ellison Oswalt is a true crime horror writer who has discovered that a horrific murder has taken place in a home that is currently up for sale.
He discovers the entity behind the creation of these films is Bughuul , a Pagan deity. The further he investigates, the frights grow more intense and begins to impact the children, especially Ashley.
After she begins to see the spirits of the children who recorded the Super 8mm films, Ellison decides that its best for his family to leave the house and go back to their home. Later, he finds the stairway to his attic laid open and when climbs up, he finds all the missing kids from the tapes sitting there, watching the snuff films on a projector. This is when Bughuul first appears on the projector and then suddenly transcends into the real world, appearing right in front of Ellison.
Ellison, who was too blinded by his success all this while, realizes that moving into this home was a big mistake and burns all the footage. Without wasting any time, he moves to his old home with his family. This is when the Deputy relentlessly calls him but he simply ignores his calls. When he finally answers the call, the Deputy informs him that he has connected all the dots and was able to derive a very evident structure between all the murders.
All the families that were murdered previously lived in the homes of the other families who were killed right before them. This explains the vast difference between the timelines of each tape. All the other tapes that followed had a difference of almost ten years between them. The reason behind this is that every time someone is mysteriously murdered in a house, no one really wants to move there unless they are very desperate like Ellison.
In the final moments of the film, Ellison discovers some extra footage in the attic of his old home and when he plays these reels, he learns that all those murders were committed by the missing kids. After having a word with the Deputy about the timelines of the murders, he also realizes that moving out of that home was another blunder that he overlooked.
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