No One Gets Out Alive

In NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE, Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) has arrived in Cleveland from Mexico after the death of her mother to cancer. She's an undocumented immigrant who finds a job working a sewing machine in a sweatshop, but without an ID, her options for finding a place to live are extremely limited. After she must leave the motel where she has been staying, she sees an ad on the bulletin board where she works advertising a room in a rooming house. Upon arrival, she meets Red (Marc Menchaca), who says he has just recently bought the place, and is in the process of fixing it up. It's a dingy building, and the lights seem to be constantly flickering, but without other options, Ambar agrees to move in, and pays Red the first month's rent. As Ambar struggles to get a fake ID that will help her find a better job and tries to get used to the harsh Cleveland winters, she begins to hear in her room what sounds like the disturbing sounds of women screaming. She also has an unpleasant encounter with Red's brother Becker. She also starts having nightmares about those around her, her mother, and ghosts that seem to haunt the rooming house. Ambar meets others who live in the rooming house -- all immigrant women -- and as she snoops around Red's study, she discovers mysterious relics and begins to learn some disturbing truths about Red and Becker's father. As Ambar grows increasingly horrified by her living situation, she decides to move out, and demands to get her deposit back from Red, but when she returns to the boardinghouse, she soon begins to realize the extent of Becker's evil, Red's complicity in it, and the unholy terror that exists in the basement and its demand for sacrifice.