The Elmwood Strain is a psychedelic horror podcast and limited audio drama series in eight parts, from writer Rachel Woolley. Biological horror with Lovecraftian roots, set in the wreckage of a small American town.
Paige escaped Elmwood ten years ago. She thought she got out. Then word arrives that one of the three best friends she abandoned has died under mysterious circumstances, and Paige finds herself driving back to the dying hometown she swore she would never see again. She finds the town being slowly swallowed by the forest, and what remains of it is in the grip of a strange new psychosis, lorded over by the friends she left behind. Crystal. Lucas. Jed. The people who knew her before. The people who knew everything.
They have been waiting a long time for Paige to come home. And they have plans for her reunion.
Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Written by Rachel Woolley. A Violet Hour Media production.
For fans of I Saw the TV Glow, Color Out of Space, The Invitation, Yellowjackets, The Last of Us, Annihilation, Hereditary, and Midsommar.
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