Feature/96 pages
Second Service
MediumLogline
A night paramedic starts getting calls from patients she already pronounced.
Synopsis
After a bad winter, medic Anya Petrov answers a dispatch to a house she cleared three nights ago. The family is awake. The patient is not. A folk practice in the building’s basement is trying to finish a service she already ended.
Comparable titles
Pitch shorthand: Weapons meets Midsommar
- Median budget
- $9.0M
- Median worldwide gross
- $48M
- Median multiple
- 5.4x
- 3 of 3 comps report both
- Newest comp
- 2025
| Title | Rating | Budget | Gross | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Weapons 2025 Matched on folk horror, ritual When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. | 7.3 4k votes | $38M | $270M | 7.1x |
 Midsommar 2019 Matched on folk horror, ritual Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities. | 7.1 9k votes | $9.0M | $48M | 5.4x |
 The Ritual 2017 Matched on folk horror, grief A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them. | 6.3 4k votes | $1.0M | $1.8M | 1.8x |
Comps average 6.9 across about 5k TMDB votes. Budgets and grosses are TMDB figures and leave out marketing.
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Pages on file
The story takes place in a night shift in a housing block that keeps a basement chapel. The protagonist is Anya Petrov, a paramedic who is being called back to her own pronouncements. The family has set a place for the woman Anya pronounced on Tuesday. The radio crackles with that same address, in the dead woman’s voice.
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Writer
Mara Ellison
Writes crime, horror, and performance stories. Staff writer on Harbor Desk for three seasons. A TMDB person id on a profile is a claim Tycoon stores. It is not an identity check.
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