Appointment with Fear

A mysterious man in a white Ford van stabs his wife on the portico of a house. Before she dies, she entrusts her infant son to Heather, urging her to keep him safe because his father will try to kill him. The sudden murder sets off the central mystery of a vulnerable child targeted by a vengeful force.

Detective Kowalski arrives at the crime scene with his peculiar, seedy demeanor, following the trail of eerie clues. He begins to suspect a supernatural thread behind the husband’s murder and the infant’s protection. The investigation will pull him into a dangerous confrontation with a cursed force.

Kowalski learns that the killer is confined to a state mental facility yet can leave his body as a spirit. An Ancient Egyptian curse drives the killer to murder his own son in a bid to become King of the Forest for another year. The revelation reframes the case as a supernatural threat rather than a typical murder.

Kowalski seeks guidance from a specialist on how to confront the vengeful spirit and its curse. The session outlines uneasy possibilities for battling a supernatural force that operates beyond ordinary crime-fighting. The plan blends forensic insight with the occult.

Carol notices the white van stalking her in her pickup, increasing the tension around the baby’s safety. She informs her love interest, Bobby, who responds with skepticism and even sabotages the threat by puncturing the van’s tire. The chase tightens as the killer’s reach appears wider.

Heather takes the baby to a luxury mansion where she and Carol look after him, trying to keep him safe from the killer. Heather experiences a nightmare-vision predicting the infant’s murder, which heightens her anxiety and sense of danger. The house becomes a focal point for the creeping threat.

In the wilderness, the killer’s spirit hijacks Kowalski’s car and blows it up, taking the chase into a deadly, surreal confrontation. The detective’s vehicle is destroyed, intensifying the peril for everyone connected to the baby. The stormy chase underscores the supernatural scale of the threat.

The killer learns the infant’s whereabouts and kills an old vagrant who lives in the back of Heather’s truck at the house. The body count rises as the supernatural killer shows no mercy. The danger now directly threatens those around Heather and Carol.

The killer murders Samantha, one of Carol’s friends, in the house’s jacuzzi, further closing in on Heather and the baby. The poolside murder heightens the sense that no one is safe. Carol’s friends become casualties in the supernatural affair.

Carol bursts outside and fires at the white van, only to find the killer absent. The attempt shows her resolve to protect the infant, while Bobby is forced into action to safeguard Heather. The confrontation shifts to a direct effort to end the threat at the house.

Bobby discovers Heather is missing and the baby is alone, prompting him to ride off on his bike with a sidecar to find Kowalski and get help. The search escalates as each character scrambles to locate the infant before the killer returns. Tension spikes as the family unit is split and endangered.

The killer breaks in through a window and Carol sets him on fire, igniting the spirit-binding inferno. The burning body seems to activate the spirit, which briefly leaves and then reforms, returning the fight to its dark origins. The scene marks a dramatic turning point toward the final confrontation.

As the final standoff unfolds, Carol pierces the killer with a nearby pole, delivering a decisive blow. A cutaway flash to the killer’s body in the mental ward explodes, followed by a strong wind where the spirit had been. The ritual violence suggests the curse is breaking.

Bobby returns the infant to Heather, who holds him and asks, ‘Isn’t he beautiful?’ Supernatural green lights shimmer in the baby’s eyes as the credits roll, signaling that the curse may still be watching. The scene closes on the eerie, unresolved note of the newborn’s gaze.