Laundry

MATT is a lonely, lost, young man who spends more time talking to his therapist than anyone else. We follow Matt as he heads to his local laundromat in the middle of the night to get his suit washed for a job interview. He makes himself at home at the empty laundromat, smoking and chatting away as his suit sloshes around in a washing machine. As his phone dies, Matt looks around for something to keep him preoccupied and finds a beautiful fur coat lying on a desk nearby. As Matt puts it on and contemplates taking it to go, he notices movement just outside the laundromat and turns to see a BLOODIED WOMAN dragging herself in his direction. Matt's panicked state only worsens as an unseen object strikes the woman and kills her, leaving Matt the only witness and in clear view of the murderer. Terrified, Matt heads for the only other door in the building: The janitor's closet. As he bursts into the pitch black room and eventually manages to lock the door, he hears a knocking, then a voice. An unknown person claiming to be the owner begs to be let in before the killer comes for him. Ultimately deciding to trust the unknown voice and the fear in it, Matt lets the man in and finds it to be the actual owner. As the owner turns on the lights and heads to call 911, Matt takes in the janitor's closet. Something is very wrong, the strange dried stains on the walls, the massive tubs of bleach everywhere and even worse, he realizes the owner isn't on the phone with emergency services. Matt darts for the emergency exit behind him, hoping to lose the suspected killer in his dust, only to find the emergency exit door leads into a twisted labyrinth built by the owner and his family. As Matt runs further into the maze to escape the owner, he stumbles across the owner's grandmother; A blind, old and fragile woman with a surprising proclivity for knife throwing and sensitive hearing. Using his wits to escape her room as well as sneak around a sickening human skin tanning and meat preserving room, Matt feels the cool night breeze behind one final door: His way out. Matt opens the door to find a prayer room, fitted with an altar and the body of the woman he had seen murdered outside the storefront window. Most importantly however, he finds a ceiling latch and ladder, the source of the fresh night air. But as Matt heads for the ladder, LEOPOLD, the owner who'd been chasing Matt this whole time, appears through a door on the other side and stands in the way of his escape. As Leopold approaches Matt, he talks of his family's god and tries to make Matt understand that his murder is meant to save him from loneliness. Leopold gets within a few feet of a resigned looking Matt and prepares to sacrifice him, when suddenly Matt springs into action, turning the tables on Leopold and killing him with the ritualistic knife Leopold intended to use on him. Bloodied and wounded, Matt hobbles up the ladder, out onto the roof and finally drops down onto the tarmac in front of the laundromat. Dazed but eyeing freedom, Matt spots a 24/7 convenience store on the other side of the road and dares to cross in front of the laundromat with freedom being so close. However, as he crosses by the storefront windows and hazards a glance inside, he finds another lone individual, holding a white fur coat, much like the bloodied one Matt himself is wearing now. As Matt looks down on himself then back up at the person in the laundromat who is staring back in horror, his eyes go wide as he realizes why this situation feels familiar. Matt starts limping towards the laundromat, focused on trying to warn the person inside, and unable to hear the sound of a blade, lightly scraping against the tarmac just a few feet behind him.