A woman in a yellow oilskin coat faces a fog-covered sea from which the drowned rise.

ROYAL NAVY — COASTAL COMMAND  ·  ORDER 11/4

Area
Port Ashby, pop. 2,140
Status
Causeway sealed. No exit.
Release
October 2027 — Only in theaters
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R  ·  A film by Ren Ashworth  ·  Blackwater Pictures

TIDE LOG — SEVEN NIGHTS

Every night at low tide,
the bell rings.

Kept by Mara Voss, Ashby Head Lighthouse. Times are local low tide.

  1. NIGHT 1Low tide 23:41

    The Saint Bride ran aground twelve days ago. Tonight the power went, then the radio, then the road. The lamp is still lit. I have four nights of oil.

  2. NIGHT 2Low tide 00:28

    Something on the shingle at Harbor Street. Nets. Barnacles. They stood up. They do not run. I counted forty before I stopped counting.

  3. NIGHT 3Low tide 01:15

    Elias reached me on channel 16. The Navy sealed the causeway at dawn. No boats. He says he recognises them. He pulled six of them out last winter.

  4. NIGHT 4Low tide 02:03

    They came up the lighthouse stair. I lit a flare and they stopped, all at once, like a held breath. Light works. Fire works. I have three rounds left.

  5. NIGHT 5Low tide 02:52

    Imogen found it in the fish first. A passenger. She says they are not coming for us. They are being called.

  6. NIGHT 6Low tide 03:40

    The bell at St. Brendan's. Every night, at the lowest water. I know who is pulling the rope. I don't know why he smiles.

  7. NIGHT 7Low tide 04:29

    The harbor went out further than it ever has. Something is standing up in it, wearing the Saint Bride like a shell. One night of oil. One flare. One bell.

RESIDENTS — LAST SEEN

Four people. One town.
No way out.

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FIELD NOTES — DR. I. HALE

They don’t run.
They don’t have to.

A waterlogged figure emerging from the surf.
SPECIMEN 01 — CLASS I

The Drowned

Every soul this town lost to the sea, returned at once. Salt-cured skin, lungs full of brine, eyes gone to pearl. Walking pace. They follow the bell and nothing else.

  • Weak to fire and light
  • Indifferent to cold, water, blunt trauma
  • Sighted: 1,300+
A colossal amalgam of drowned bodies rising from the harbor.
SPECIMEN 02 — CLASS IV

The Tidewarden

Two hundred crewmen bound by net and rope and something older, wearing the hull of the Saint Bride like a shell. Rises only at the lowest water. Never seen in full.

  • Weak to: the bell
  • Resists: everything you have
  • Sighted: 1

“It isn’t a virus. It’s a passenger. And it wants to go home.” — I.H.

RADIO — CHANNEL 16

Station 4, calling anyone.

RECCH 16 — 156.800 MHzNIGHT 3 — 01:15

Transcript reconstructed from Coast Guard Station 4 recordings. Teaser “Low Tide” releases with the full audio.

THE CAUSEWAY

One road out. Sealed.

Ashby Head — the lamp Harbor Street — first sighting St. Brendan’s — the bell Station 4 — channel 16 Causeway — sealed at dawn Saint Bride — aground
Title
HOLLOW TIDE
Director
Ren Ashworth
Written by
Ren Ashworth & Dalia Merrow
Starring
Saoirse Lindqvist, Tomas Reyes, Helen Achterberg, Barnaby Cole
Release
October 2027 — Only in theaters
Runtime / Rating
1h 52m — R

  • Tide log opened. Ledger open.

  • Teaser “Low Tide” — radio transcript released.

  • Father Silas Orme added to the wanted board.

  • Halloween screening of the first 12 minutes. Details soon.

THE LEDGER

Sign, and be told
when the tide turns.

Release dates, ticket pre-sales and the full trailer, first. Every name in the ledger gets the Port Ashby quarantine map as a 4K wallpaper.

SIGNED.

Keep your lamp lit. We write at low tide.