Jim Jepson

Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.

Samantha is a serious journalist, both for the school paper and for the yearbook, but she's just as serious about her friends, Nate, Gillian, and Rudy, all of whom are vying with her for a full-ride local scholarship to college.

After believing she has found the guy of her dreams, home renovator Melissa Davis soon learns that her dream man has a dark secret.

When her ex-husband walks back into her life, Josie becomes embroiled in the messy divorce from his estranged current wife, Laura, who seems determined to make life a living hell for her and all those around her.

A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads to disaster for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, along with an erratic photographer, his vindictively murderous fiancée, her secret lover, and a strung-out mall Santa.