The Endless DVD

Living in poverty in a shared studio apartment in Los Angeles, two brothers (Justin and Aaron) receive a mysterious videotape in a box that seems to have been shipped through a hundred countries before arriving on their doorstep.

On it, a Heavens Gate-esque cult member talks about an impending Ascension. We learn that the brothers were raised in this cult, and fled from it a decade ago because Justin pulled Aaron out when he became aware of an impending mass suicide.

But this tape seems to say otherwise their old family is alive and well, which opens a crack in the brothers relationship: why did Justin pull Aaron away from the only family hes ever known, lie about their mass suicide, and have him live this destitute life?

On Aarons insistence, they go back to their homestead deep in the high desert forest of the southwest in order to get some closure. But when they arrive, they discover that the cult might not really be a cult at all, and theyre not certain just how welcome back they are.

And there seems to be a dark truth to the communes otherworldly beliefs that suggest the laws of the natural world may be very different than we assume, which propels THE ENDLESS into a Lovecraftian tale about brotherhood, giving up your personal autonomy, and historys weird, malevolent tendency to repeat itself.