Madame (Sean Young) has left Darling (Lauren Ashley Carter) alone in a vast New York City building where she’ll be the caretaker. As you expect with possession movies, she’s told to never enter one closed room. She also finds an upside-down cross, and the last girl in her position threw herself off the balcony as if she were Holly flinging herself into the void at a birthday party.

Soon, Darling is seeing visions and crawls out onto the balcony herself, where she finds the words “Abyssus abyssum invocat,” which means “the deep calls to the deep.” A man Darling saw earlier, who recognized her as he picked up her new necklace, follows her home and explains how a ritual in the house once conjured a demon. She stabs him, claiming that Henry Sullivan must be punished.

By the end, Darling has confessed to Madame, “I think I’ll become one of your ghost stories now.” She also jumps off the balcony and the cycle repeats.

Shot in monochromatic grays, this feels like Polanski — Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, Repulsion — yet never feels like a slave to those inspirations. That said, I’ve been reading lots of reviews that hated this. It hit right for me, all black mascara and freakouts, a perfect thing to watch in the middle of a gray and rainy Pittsburgh day.

You can watch this on Tubi.