NOW ON TUBI! Prepare for a throat full of screams with the ultra-scary indie horror film Trinket Box, written and directed by Patrycja Kepa and Acorye White. It opens in present day, with a mysterious figure (Darian Fisher) cleaning up an empty house. On the mantle is a picture of a couple, where the husband is black, and the wife is white. We then see the figure dragging two bodies wrapped in plastic out of the house and into a van. A “For Sale” sign is then put in the front yard.
“The box has strange carvings on it, and inside there is a necklace.”
We flashback to the 30s, when little Mary Ann Davis (Zia Carlock) accidentally spies her big sister Gracie (Judith Davis) in bed with her boyfriend Abe (Joe Anthony Gordon). Gracie tells Abe about all the dead witches buried on the property, not knowing her little sister is peeking. They both get caught by Gracie’s father, James (Barry Ratcliffe), who goes berserk due to Abe being black while his daughter is white. Horrible things happen that day, and that night, Mary Ann finds a box with strange carvings and a necklace inside. When she puts on the necklace she is filled with a dark force that has a huge grin.
Jumping back to present day, we see Ava (Augie Duke) and Mike Wilson (Acorye White) moving into the house seen in the opening. Several days later, right after Mike has left, an elderly woman (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) comes knocking. She asks Ava if she should call the police on the dark man that had just left. Ava informs her that was her husband Mike. The elderly woman then gifts Ava with a trinket box as a welcome to the neighborhood. The box has strange carvings on it, and inside there is a necklace. When Ava puts the necklace on, very weird things start occurring.
