An artist travels to Colombia to create.
He accidentally channels something dark.
He can't tell if it left.

Logline

An American artist in Medellín channels something into his music — and finds he may have done it too well. A dark figure appears on the stairs. Then a stranger appears at his door with the same darkness already inside her.

A true story.

A man becomes afraid that his creative channeling works.

During a lightning storm, he writes and performs songs inspired by ancient myths.

Within hours he encounters a series of events he still cannot explain.

An apparition.
A woman singing the same themes from the opposite direction.
An exorcist who seems to know things he shouldn't.

Medellín  ·  The night it happened

The Story

During a lightning storm in Medellín, he performs songs of temptation — "Hands loose on the wheel, let me take over."

That night something appears on the stairs.

Black.
Dog-like.
Humanoid hands.
Squatting.
Staring.

The next day a woman calls him out of nowhere. She plays him a song she recorded — dark themes, surrender, an invitation to something unnamed. A mirror of his own siren song. Two people who have never met, independently channeling the same thing from opposite directions.

When she leaves the room, she seems to glide across the floor without touching it. He sees the entity again — squatting in the hallway between them.

He stays up all night.

The next day she texts him:

"I'm super sick. You probably will be too."

He leaves the country.

Weeks later, at an artist's retreat, an exorcist approaches him unprompted. Says he has the most open energy he's seen in a long time. Rings bells across his body. Says he's cast out many of these. Then asks if the artist told the girl she had one attached to her. He didn't.

The night the events in Medellín began, the artist was writing a mythological rap opera based on ancient temptations. Both songs were performed during the lightning storm. Both recordings exist.

Siren Song

A voice promising love through possession.

I want you.
I want you.
Come to me.
You're not free.
You are all mine.
Mine for all time.
I'll train you.
I'll tame you.
I'll drain you.

Serpent Song

A voice promising salvation through surrender.

Hands loose on the wheel.
Let me take over.
We'll be great together.

Alone you'll go nowhere.
Let me guide your ship.
You'll be king of the sea.

The price? Just your soul.
An eternal vacation.

Both songs explore the same question:
What would tempt a person to surrender their free will?

Within twenty-four hours of the performance, he began to wonder whether he had merely written about temptation — or invited it into his life.

Across multiple traditions, artists, poets, and performers were believed to receive messages from unseen entities.

DAWG asks a simple question:

What if they're right?

Every event in the film has a rational explanation.
Every event in the film has a supernatural explanation.

The audience must choose.

DAWG

The djinn black dog.
He got that dawg in him... and he can't get it out.

It Follows

RADiUS · 2014

The transfer mechanic — something that passes from person to person, invisible to everyone else

A Ghost Story

A24 · 2017

A presence that cannot leave. Grief as architecture. Time as the real horror.

Stalker

Tarkovsky · 1979

A zone that responds to your inner state. What you find is what you brought with you.

Production Budget

$300K — $500K

Non-union production. Colombia crew rates. No stars required. The budget works because the story doesn't need anything it doesn't already have.

This actually happened.

Colombia

He never leaves Medellín. Somehow unable to.

He never sees the entity again. At first, this feels like victory.

Then strangers begin staring past him. People react to things standing where nothing should be. Children refuse to enter rooms he occupies.

Animals growl at him.

The exorcist explains: the entity is no longer following him.

It is attached to him.

Final image: an old man in the same neighborhood. A kid stops dead in his tracks and looks directly over his shoulder.

Bryan C. Watkins

Bryan C. Watkins

Inquiries

bryancwatkins@gmail.com

You can see it while it is coming for you.
You cannot see it once it attaches.
Others can.

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