Dive Bar at the End of the Road

A car swerves on a forested road just before midnight to avoid a figure standing in the rain, and hits a fallen tree. Four more cars pile in behind it in the dark, with lightning the only light. The road is slick and nobody can stop in time.

Five strangers climb out of the wreckage, soaked and hurt, and make their way to a backwoods dive bar. They intend to wait for daybreak and hope for a cell signal.

The storm keeps up outside, and tempers fray inside. Time seems to move strangely in the bar. Anyone who steps out, whether to help another accident victim or to hike for help, learns fast that it is a very bad idea.

Something unnatural is in the woods. The figure in the road may have been a warning, or something worse. This supernatural horror keeps its cast in one confined room through a single night, and the strangers have to cooperate to work out what is happening if they want to see morning.