Shelter Skelter

            Late ‘60s, the height of the Cold War.  An eccentric billionaire collects his closest friends, including a few proponents of his occult religious beliefs into his luxurious estate, which he has fortified to become an automated bomb shelter in the event of a nuclear strike.  The group has just collected into the building when suddenly it locks down.

            40 years later, the abandoned mansion has been found with no signs of life within.  The city wants to rezone the estate as low-income housing, so a team of assessors, architects, city officials, and an expert on the original owner are sent in to examine the mansion.  As soon as they get inside, the place shuts down again.  Steel plates cut off cell reception and prevent escape of any kind.  Now the team must examine the records left by the previous occupants of the house in the hopes of finding a clue to what happened and a means of escaping.

            As the entrapment stretches beyond the first day, strange things start happening.  Members of the team are attacked and killed in the dark.  Spirits or someone still living in the house?  Sounds emanate from the basement.  The swimming pool, still alarmingly well maintained, seems to contain a powerful hallucinogen.  As the team is driven more and more insane, they must consider the spiritual implications of the haunting, and also the possibility that a nuclear strike may really have occurred.