Antlers (2021)

Some methheads cook meth in an abandoned mine, which seems like a pretty clever idea, except that it's Built On An Indian Burial Ground™.

One of them gets infested with evil spirits, so his 12-year-old son keeps him locked in a broom closet and feeds him rodents and skunks. He keeps his brother in the closet, too, because maybe also demons?

The director of cinematography is having a grand ol' time with his remarkably high quality camera equipment and the gorgeous views of small-town Pacific Northwest. The screenplay writer is frantically reading "Writing a Screenplay for Dummies" between shoots and incorporating every suggestion immediately.

The local school teacher thinks it's odd that the boy, dressed in tatters, keeps drawing fantastically creepy demons in his demon notebook. She begins stalking the young child.

She also gets her brother, the local sheriff, in on the stalking. In between bickering about which one of them was more psychologically traumatized by violent childhood abuse, that is.

The school's principal finally agrees that the boy's demonic artistry is somewhat off-putting, and heads on over to the crackden to check what's locked in the broom closet.

Surging with the blood of the innocent, the methhead splits open like a molting cicada and releases a vaguely deer-shaped horned demon on the town. It does some antler stabbing on the local townsfolk, wounding the important ones and slaughtering the others.

The little boy has been taking care of his demonic father and brother for quite a while, and doing everything in his power to protect them, but the school teacher talks him into stabbing them to death pretty easily.

The only Native American in town warned them that deer-demons don't die, they only jump to new hosts and hibernate. Thankfully, nobody pretends to be surprised when this happens. Now we're nicely setup for The Antlers Trilogy.