Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween, Devil's Night, a production of My
Speaker 1: Heart three D audio, Blumhouse Television and Grim and Mild
Speaker 1: from Aaron Mackey. Headphones. Recommended listener discretion advised. Errow errow,
Speaker 1: where are you? Errow errow? Come back to me, boy, please? Well?
Speaker 1: Oh what's you're running from? Son? Devil's out after you? No?
Speaker 1: I I was looking for my dog. Er Well, you
Speaker 1: know what time it is, young man. The wolves would
Speaker 1: make a fine dinner of you this late at night.
Speaker 1: Have you seen a dog gone through here? Sorry? Son,
Speaker 1: not tonight. Say you're all right? You look at tad
Speaker 1: worn out, like your spirit could use a lift. I'm
Speaker 1: the pastor of the church here, as it happens, we're
Speaker 1: having a little party tonight. Maybe you could come in,
Speaker 1: get out of the elements, get your breath. No, I
Speaker 1: how old are you? About? Thirteen or so? Yeah? No, sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm really going to keep going nonsense. As the
Speaker 1: only truly God fearing house in town, it is our
Speaker 1: civic duty to keep you youngsters safe on a dangerous
Speaker 1: night such as this. No disrespect, but I have to
Speaker 1: find my dog and get home before my dear it all.
Speaker 1: Take a minute, young man, just come in. Come on,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, go with me, come on, stop being so fast,
Speaker 1: and my boy, look, it's us right there. Lovely church
Speaker 1: is me. It's the community center. Well it used to be,
Speaker 1: but it's ours now. I'm Pastor d Aquila, and that
Speaker 1: there is the Church of Revelation. We are a small
Speaker 1: but mighty congregation. Say, young man, are you a believer?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you look like a follower to me, son.
Speaker 1: We always welcome new members, and tonight is a special night.
Speaker 1: It's all about the children, you see. What better way
Speaker 1: to keep them out of mischief than with a little
Speaker 1: fun of games. It so happens that we're one short
Speaker 1: for tonight's festivities, and I think you'll make a perfect
Speaker 1: addition to the party. Everyone gather around this here is Say,
Speaker 1: I didn't get your name, young man Max Max. Yes,
Speaker 1: this here is Max, and he'll be joining our little
Speaker 1: party tonight. Uh Hi, Happy Halloween. Oh my, what a
Speaker 1: handsome young man. Goodness, you have such strong shoulders. You
Speaker 1: must be quite a bit of physical labor. Say how
Speaker 1: old are you? Max? This is my wife, Helen, Helen,
Speaker 1: This is Max. He'll be joining us tonight, and I
Speaker 1: think he's about Yeah, close enough, Listen. I never said
Speaker 1: I was going to any party. Oh, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he's perfect. Welcome to the Church of Revelation. Max. I've
Speaker 1: got such a nice party plan for tonight. We've already
Speaker 1: started bobbing for apples and Calvin did the funny the Calvin. Yes,
Speaker 1: Miss Helen, this is Calvin. Look what an amusing ghost
Speaker 1: costume he's made. You'll be able to make your own
Speaker 1: costume to Max. Isn't that fun? So fun? And Calvin
Speaker 1: will help you. I don't want to make a costume, Chigen.
Speaker 1: This is Max. He'll be joining our little party tonight.
Speaker 1: Everyone show him how to play the games. Calvin, you
Speaker 1: first show Max how to look like a ghost. Yes,
Speaker 1: miss Helen. Miss Helen said I should cut up these
Speaker 1: bed sheets. Miss Helen gave me this knife. Miss Helen
Speaker 1: said it would be scary to cut holes in the sheets.
Speaker 1: Miss Helen, Treasures is very fun. Please Max, make yourself
Speaker 1: comfortable for there's nowhere to sit. You don't have any furniture.
Speaker 1: What's the star painted on the floor? Oh, don't cross
Speaker 1: it now, that's for later. Just settle on in and
Speaker 1: I'll be right back to check on you. Oh isn't
Speaker 1: she something? Well, Max, this here is our humble house
Speaker 1: of worship. I bet you wonder now it all came
Speaker 1: to be. I really wasn't well. I always wanted to
Speaker 1: be a preacher man, you know, even when I was
Speaker 1: your age seminary school by fourteen in the pulpit soon
Speaker 1: after that, from prayer, breakfast to tent revivals. I knew
Speaker 1: the Gospels by heart, Matthew Mark Thomas facilities. And yet
Speaker 1: it seemed to me that something was missing. God wasn't
Speaker 1: speaking to me, Max, or maybe I wasn't ready to listen.
Speaker 1: And then everything changed on one very special mission trip.
Speaker 1: You know, Max, there are places in this world that
Speaker 1: are not aren't any man names. I could say that
Speaker 1: you would never recognize. I could tell you where, but
Speaker 1: you wouldn't believed me if I did not. So terribly
Speaker 1: far away, minds you, And yet a world apart from
Speaker 1: this one. It was to one of these strange and
Speaker 1: wild lands that I soldier. And you know what I found.
Speaker 1: I can't say I do. Not a Bible in the library,
Speaker 1: not a crucifix in sight. Terribly godless, I thought at first,
Speaker 1: But how wrong I was. It was there, away from
Speaker 1: everything I thought I knew that I met the people.
Speaker 1: You might think of them as some ancient tribe, but
Speaker 1: they are much more than that, those still in touch
Speaker 1: in direct communication with higher power, power of consequence. I
Speaker 1: gave up everything I had, everything I thought I knew,
Speaker 1: to live among them, to sing the songs, practiced their rights,
Speaker 1: uncover their mysteries. And I came to learn that they
Speaker 1: doing fat to have a god, though not quite like
Speaker 1: the one we worship here. The old God is a
Speaker 1: vicious one, but also a given one, a god who
Speaker 1: enjoys a good game. What kind of games? Why? Games
Speaker 1: for children? Of course. Now gather round, children, It's time
Speaker 1: for the first game of the evening. Come now, children,
Speaker 1: this way, Max, towards these crates. Now you all know
Speaker 1: this town, this state, this country to be a brown
Speaker 1: wasteland growing nothing but weeds. But imagine, in your agile
Speaker 1: minds are thriving forest of yellow stocks, and find before
Speaker 1: you the bountiful harvest of our prosperous fields corn rock horn. Yes, Max,
Speaker 1: our success depends on it. The game is simple. Each
Speaker 1: of you must shock twenty stocks, and the last finish
Speaker 1: is our up fern, up fern. It just means looser,
Speaker 1: get ready, everybody, Cliff, stop the music? Yes, faster? Which
Speaker 1: song was it again? Come on, Cliff, it's the last
Speaker 1: one we looked at. Uh here it is already. Off
Speaker 1: we go. Good luck kids again. Chuck chuck, chuck, shuck, shuck,
Speaker 1: shuck shuck. It's horn is so tough. Use your thuns.
Speaker 1: Acts like your life depends on it. Haven't you have
Speaker 1: a shucked corn before? Yes? But there's something wrong with
Speaker 1: this corn, Madison. How are you having any problems with
Speaker 1: your corn? Now? Miss Allen? How about you calling well
Speaker 1: miss Helen? Well, then perhaps you just got a tough
Speaker 1: bat J Mack. Great job, children, Yes, we will offer
Speaker 1: this corn up to our God in hopes of a
Speaker 1: prosperous harvest in the new year. Sorry, Max, looks like
Speaker 1: you're one step toward being the up. And what what
Speaker 1: is that game two? Bring in the wall? Well? What? Look?
Speaker 1: I really need to get home before my mom worries. Nonsense, Max,
Speaker 1: We really love having you here. Confidentially, may I ask
Speaker 1: you something? Uh? Okay, tell me do you wish to
Speaker 1: be saved? I'm not sure you know we're talking about
Speaker 1: of course not. We were all once blind to our
Speaker 1: God's holy plan. Let me put it another way, Max,
Speaker 1: Do you feel alone in this world? No? Do you
Speaker 1: feel trapped in here? I do? Well. We can help you,
Speaker 1: Max in a way we already have. Now reach into
Speaker 1: this sack of wool. Uh Is this another game? Yes? Lad,
Speaker 1: we have cleansed the flora and now must make the
Speaker 1: faun of pure for the lord of harvest and field.
Speaker 1: All right, children, Now for this game, we race to
Speaker 1: see who can pull nits and nuts from the wool
Speaker 1: of sheep. That's the worst game I've ever heard of.
Speaker 1: Just as well, children, you know only of this famished
Speaker 1: land livestock that is sick, feeble, unable to support the
Speaker 1: pharmer's who tend to it. But take up and little
Speaker 1: hands the finest coats of the fairest sheep, and cleanse
Speaker 1: it of imperfection. Yes, children, she she shame, share, share,
Speaker 1: share ship. What's the matter? Bat? You look like you've
Speaker 1: never done this before. I haven't, well, son, This wool
Speaker 1: here has given up an offering to our guy, who
Speaker 1: returns his blessings tinfold with healthy beasts the following season.
Speaker 1: Why is it all wet? Three? Two one? Put your
Speaker 1: wall down? Everyone, alright, kids, let's see who has the
Speaker 1: most wall clean and who's up for let's go around.
Speaker 1: Oh my, you shared quite a bit this go round.
Speaker 1: Calvin the Lord will be quite impressed. Good job, Clarence, Well,
Speaker 1: someone had trouble with his wall. I've never picked knits. Well,
Speaker 1: that sounds like something i'd offered. Would say, Oh dear,
Speaker 1: you've got him ntorist their poor little thing in a
Speaker 1: waste of perfectly good blood. Quick, let's get some eye
Speaker 1: dot on that this. Well, Cliff, slow going there, Amax?
Speaker 1: How is this a game? How is any of this connected? Well? Now,
Speaker 1: I'm hardly an expert on such things, but maybe you
Speaker 1: really can't find salvation pick advice from wool? Something here
Speaker 1: is off? What's wrong with these people? Which is kids?
Speaker 1: Hesitate to guess? But I can't stop them? You know, no, no,
Speaker 1: no more killing. You promised, and I will keep that promise.
Speaker 1: What did you want to play like that? You know?
Speaker 1: I was worried I couldn't pull it off, But I
Speaker 1: think I'm doing a bang up job, Max, giving up?
Speaker 1: So soon go along, play your part. I will not
Speaker 1: let them hurt you. And just what are you doing
Speaker 1: over here? Talking to old Cliff? Well? The boy wants
Speaker 1: to be an organist when he grows up, when he
Speaker 1: grows up? Right, right, come on down, Max, back to
Speaker 1: the game. Oh the door is locked. You gotta keep
Speaker 1: the unholy out. I don't want to play any more games. Okay,
Speaker 1: no more games? Then how about some punch? No, no more?
Speaker 1: I just want to go home. Clarence, you who will
Speaker 1: you serve? Max? Here? Some punch? Yes? Past? What is
Speaker 1: this stuff? It's kind of right? Ms? Allens? Does it
Speaker 1: taste very good? What does it taste like? I think
Speaker 1: it tastes like nothing? Lovely pastor? H What now, Cliff?
Speaker 1: I need you to look over this new music for tonight. Fine,
Speaker 1: just a moment now, just relax, Max, enjoy your punch.
Speaker 1: We'll be starting the ceremony soon. Hey, Clarence, what's fine?
Speaker 1: That door in the back? Ms Allens says we're not
Speaker 1: supposed to go in there? Only adults? Is there a
Speaker 1: way out? Ms? Allens has The only way out is belief? Right?
Speaker 1: Thanks for the hope. M hmm? What is this? Please?
Speaker 1: What are all of these glades? Who is it? Who
Speaker 1: goes there? Oh? It's marks. You're just in time, dear boy,
Speaker 1: by which I mean you're early. What which with all
Speaker 1: these knives, aren't they beautiful? The pastor brought these back
Speaker 1: from his visit with the people. Just another game, Max,
Speaker 1: Did the pastor tell you why we play these games?
Speaker 1: He said, God likes games. Yes, yes he does, makes
Speaker 1: very very good. This country is falling upon war is
Speaker 1: constantly upon us. The economy is in shambles. There is
Speaker 1: no hope for a human kind on this earth. God's
Speaker 1: kingdom is the only salvation for our souls now. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, we shall not succumb to famine, disease, destitution.
Speaker 1: We will not let these port chill, durn suffer. It
Speaker 1: is our duty to care for the instant. Folks today
Speaker 1: know only how to take. But long ago the people
Speaker 1: knew that to receive, you have to be willing to give.
Speaker 1: We only need follow their example to play their games
Speaker 1: to ensure our survival. Full fields of corn, pastors teeming
Speaker 1: with livestock, and oceans of black goal below the ground.
Speaker 1: It's already been proven true, Max, And it's a bargain.
Speaker 1: Only one sacrifice a year. What kind of sacrifice, oh Max,
Speaker 1: Only the sacrifice of the Oxford. Oh Max, you didn't
Speaker 1: drink your punch, You probably regret that children tie him up. Children,
Speaker 1: all of you, well, blade cliff would you begin to him? Yes, fastor,
Speaker 1: our ancient Lord, Your holy oblation has given us life,
Speaker 1: and so we reflect it tonight in remembrance of you.
Speaker 1: When tempted by the other, inspire me to be taken
Speaker 1: as an unworthy sacrifice. When burdened by envy, let me
Speaker 1: become an instrument of your file, so that you may
Speaker 1: continue to bless us. We offer this young man as
Speaker 1: holy apt may his blood, along with these offerings of
Speaker 1: flora and fauna, please you and promise us another year
Speaker 1: of bounty. What is it, Clifford? What's round? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Pastor says, allow things to not shortires? Whose who can need?
Speaker 1: From the slower room? Agent? It is It is us, Yes, Lord,
Speaker 1: It is us, the lord of the field and forest
Speaker 1: and the rock and br which has brought the own
Speaker 1: of us, overs of shadow, and he who may not
Speaker 1: be made he bls the shadow. Yes, yes, Lord, And
Speaker 1: it is I Pastor d herts soul of man. You
Speaker 1: will be found my setuary with the un worthy sacrifice.
Speaker 1: What I forgive me? Father? I I don't understand. We
Speaker 1: thought he was perfect. It's perfect. Just like all the
Speaker 1: others will do as a command. This sucrifice is insulations. Yes, Father,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my Lord. We beg your forgiveness. Friends get gone,
Speaker 1: disgusting boy, the Lord finds you foul. Please forgive us, Father?
Speaker 1: What would appease you better? Force? Two would make wordy sacrifices?
Speaker 1: Only two you You will want us Lord a sacrifice? No,
Speaker 1: not again? Not again? Yes nor no yes Lord, Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: yes Lord. Thirteen Days of Halloween Devil's Night, starring Carter
Speaker 1: Rockwood and Clancy Brown. Episode eight, The Church, written by
Speaker 1: Trevor Young, Nicholas Takowski, and Alexander Williams. Editing and sound
Speaker 1: design by Trevor Young, featuring the voices of Clayton Ferris,
Speaker 1: Laura Shine, Gina Rikiki, and Lauren Vogelbaum. Directed by Alexander Williams,
Speaker 1: Script supervision by Nicolas Takowski. Casting by Sunday Bowling c
Speaker 1: s A and Meg Mormon c s A. Production coordinator
Speaker 1: Wayna Calderon. Production assistants Zoe Shay and Amber Ferris. Animal
Speaker 1: recording by Ben James, closing theme by Rose Azerti. Loyalty
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. Engineered by Gary Forbes and Jody Abbott.
Speaker 1: Executive producers Aaron Manky, Noah Finberg, Chris Dicky, Matt Frederick
Speaker 1: and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and Josh Than.
Speaker 1: Producers Jesse Funk and rima Il Kali. Thirteen Days of
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