Blood Song

In 1955 in Portland, Oregon, a businessman discovers his wife with another man and kills them both before taking his own life. His young son Paul witnesses the brutal scene, leaving him traumatized by the violence. The event establishes the first lasting exposure to death that haunts him.

Twenty-five years after the fateful night, Paul is incarcerated at a psychiatric institution near Stanford Bay on the Oregon Coast. He remains under guard as his violent impulses are managed. The seemingly endless diagnosis and confinement set the stage for his later escape.

One day, Paul murders an orderly inside the institution to facilitate his escape and seizes a wooden flute given by his father. He then slips away into the surrounding countryside, taking the flute with him. The escape marks a return to violence and freedom that will intertwine with Marion's fate.

Marion, a Stanford Bay teenager who survived a disabling car accident, lives with an abusive father and a fragile family life. She uses a leg brace to help her walk and dreams of moving away when her fisherman boyfriend Joey lands a job in Portland. Her ambitions are overshadowed by her current struggles at home.

Paul hitches a ride with a truck driver, and when the driver grows annoyed by his flute playing, Paul bludgeons him with a hatchet and kills him to steal the vehicle. He then picks up a female hitchhiker and brings her to a Stanford Bay motel. The danger escalates as his attempt to charm with the flute fails, leading to further violence.

At the motel, Paul strangles the hitchhiker after failing to charm her with the flute and proceeds to dismember her body. The gruesome act deepens the connection between Paul's violence and Marion's forthcoming visions. The community remains unaware of the killer's identity.

Marion experiences increasingly vivid dreams and visions of the murders, which she slowly realizes are not random but premonitions. The sense that she is seeing through time grows stronger as more events unfold. Her gifts begin to blur the line between fear and forewarning.

Marion's visions lead her to a rural beach where she witnesses Paul disposing of the dismembered hitchhiker's corpse. She understands that she has become his next target, heightening the danger surrounding her. The encounter cements a chilling link between her abilities and his actions.

Paul infiltrates Marion's home and kills her father, a violent intrusion that drives Marion to flee. She seeks safety at a nearby sawmill, hoping to escape him once and for all. This act accelerates the pursuit that will culminate in a deadly chase.

During the pursuit, Paul impales a worker with a forklift and then crashes the forklift through a barrier into the bay. The violent chase leaves more bodies in the water and increases the sense of inevitability about Marion's fate. The police and witnesses remain unaware of Paul's true identity.

At the police station, Marion is questioned about her attacker, who she describes as the man she dreamed about. With no trace of Paul and only the worker's body found, authorities assume Marion is mentally ill and responsible for the broader murders. Her credibility is deeply shaken as she becomes a suspect in her own visions.

Marion experiences another vision of Paul hitching a ride with Joey, and she senses he will be killed next. Overwhelmed by fear, she is committed to the same psychiatric institution from which Paul escaped. The line between prophecy and madness becomes increasingly blurred.

While lying bound to a hospital bed, Paul enters Marion's room posing as a doctor. She awakens and screams in horror, realizing the danger has closed in around her yet again.