Landon Dies

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***Landon Dies*** is a 2020 short horror film written and directed by Landon Stahmer and released by Crypt TV. It stars Landon Stahmer, Patrick Schmaltz, Caleb Phillips, and Lyssa Deehan.

The film was released on August 7th, 2020.

## Summary

Landon goes about his day again and again, only to realize after dying one too many times that something more sinister is at work.

## Plot

The film opens on a headless corpse in a small, darkened apartment room. The camera shows several rooms before panning up to the open attic door, and the corpse's head falls down from the open door. The title card appears.

Landon wakes up that morning and puts his clothes on for the day, having a rather humorous mishap when he gets out of his bed. He goes in to brush his teeth, but the faucets are not working. He checks the pipes, and hears a strange creaking sound. He slowly exits the bathroom and looks around the hall, only to find that the door to the attic is wide open. When he turns back to the living room, there is a strange hunched-over creature in a yellow cloak. The monster slowly turns to face Landon, and a pair of ghostly-white arms suddenly emerges from the hood. Terrified, Landon runs back into his bathroom and locks the door behind him. Inside the bathroom, he hears a strange voice whispering to him. The voice says that he is a friend, and he can help Landon. Landon tentatively opens the shower curtain, but there is nothing in the shower. Suddenly, the water in the bathtub and sink turns on, and Landon, now spooked enough to run, turns around and runs into a knife. He looks up, sees the creature from before, and he is pulled into the creature's hood.

The next morning, Landon wakes up to start his day, and, after a humorous mishap getting out of bed, puts his clothes on and goes into the kitchen. However, when he opens the refrigerator, he finds out that it's completely empty. He goes to open the blinds instead, only to see that the bird on the telephone lines outside has been frozen in place. As he looks out the window, the monster from before suddenly reaches out and bends his neck all the way backwards.

A montage plays of Landon waking up again and again and again, only to be killed by the monster each time with a different method -- severe burns, stabbing, blunt force, and even decapitation.

## Cast

 Patrick Schmaltz
 Caleb Phillips
 Lyssa Deehan | Lab Voice

## Crew

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## Trivia

* Due to the then-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the entire film was shot in Landon Stahmer's apartment, with the exception of the final CGI shot of the containment facility.
* Landon's bathroom contains a pair of Easter eggs for other shorts in the Crypt Monster Universe.
	+ There is a framed poster of The Look-See on the wall of the bathroom, likely a reference to Landon Stahmer also being the director of The Look-See's series.
	+ The deer skull on Landon's wall is similar of the skull from the Mordeo ritual site.
* The score for the film was been released on CryptTV's Soundcloud page, and is free to stream on Soundcloud.
* The group running the facility are reminiscent of the SCP Foundation, using advanced technology to contain and study monsters instead of destroy them. So far no further information on this organization has appeared though given their resources they are likely a major player within the universe.
	+ The final scene shows other containment units with the labels "M457" and "M458" which would imply the organization is in possession of or is aware of 455 other entities within the universe. This also relates to the SCP universe as creatures are referred to by numerical designation and not names.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1  Crypt TV. "LANDON DIES | Crypt TV Monster Universe | Short Film." YouTube, Crypt TV; August 7th, 2020.