Skeleton Crew

In the 1970s, a mental institution near the Finland–Russia border is ruled by Doctor Andersson, who begins filming himself torturing patients to death. When the crimes are uncovered, most of his snuff films are confiscated and the asylum is shut down. The rooms where those films were developed and screened are never found.

Around thirty years later, the abandoned asylum is repurposed as the set for Silent Creek, a movie based on the murders that occurred there. The production crews move in to shoot, using the derelict wards and corridors as their location. The atmosphere tightens as the site still carries the echo of Andersson's horrors.

During filming, two soundmen hear disembodied voices echoing through the empty building. Their search leads them to a hidden room that seems sealed off from the rest of the site.

Inside the hidden chamber, they uncover Andersson's undiscovered work and snuff materials. The bulk of the cast and crew are repulsed, yet they decide not to call the police because reporting it would shut down production.

Steven, the director of Silent Creek, becomes obsessed with Andersson's films and starts behaving erratically. He insists Silent Creek is 'not real enough' and begins to imitate the killer's aura in his own actions.

Steven finds Andersson's camera among the snuff films and tricks Bruce (the actor playing Andersson) into killing an actress with a drill, claiming it was merely a prop. He films the act, further blurring the line between fiction and reality.

The next day, a note on Andersson's projector orders the team to switch it on. When they do, the projector shows Steven dressed as Andersson disemboweling Mari while ranting about being The Auteur.

Steven then cuts a restrained Bruce in half with a chainsaw, which plays on a television in the break room. With telephones and vehicles failing, the remaining crew members decide to flee and search for Mike.

During the search, Klasu is seized after drinking drugged liquor.

In the sealed attic, the survivors discover a Moviola showing Skeleton Crew up to that moment, as if reality has become the film. The machinery also reveals Klasu in a pit with Mike, blurring the lines between film and real danger.

Steven throws two spiked clubs into the pit and has Klasu and Mike fight for their lives. Klasu wins, but Steven breaks his word and burns Klasu to death with spotlights.

Erno is locked in the attic and bombarded with sound, causing a fatal aneurysm. The others grow more desperate as the boundary between film and reality continues to fray.

Darius is captured, strung up, and impaled by a spear attached to a camera dolly. Steven then takes Anna, severing her right arm and left leg, and leaves her for Lisa to find.

Steven confronts Lisa as Anna's fate intensifies the ordeal. Lisa shoots Steven multiple times with a dead crew member's gun, but he survives due to the asylum's supernatural presence. Realizing she cannot end the nightmare through ordinary means, Lisa shoots herself in the mouth to ruin his film, then wakes tied to a chair as Steven looms with a blowtorch.

In a post-credits scene, Steven is shown watching Skeleton Crew in a theatre. A viewer loudly critiques the film, saying, 'Weren't even any tits!' underscoring the film’s meta-fictional blurring of cinema and horror.