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The Finality of the Infinite
Psychological Techno-Horror Feature
After losing his job before Christmas, an exhausted architect accepts a lucrative contract at an experimental wellness company whose immersive therapy restores the version of himself his family has been missing. But as the treatment awakens buried memories of his vanished father, he uncovers an ancient machine hidden beneath the facility that follows love, watchfulness, and inherited trauma from one generation to the next.
The Finality of the Infinite follows an exhausted father who accepts contract work at HausMoon, an experimental wellness company promising restoration through immersive therapy. As the treatments begin repairing the parts of himself his family has missed, he uncovers a hidden system built upon inherited memory, impossible architecture, and an ancient machine that quietly shapes those who enter it. What begins as corporate psychological horror gradually unfolds into a story about grief, fatherhood, and the quiet ways people disappear while trying to provide for the ones they love.
A contained psychological techno-horror feature exploring the quiet systems that shape who we become.
Burnout
Fatherhood
Grief
Corporate Systems
Impossible Architecture
Memory
Inherited Trauma
ABOUT
Nick Etie is a Texas-based writer and designer whose work explores psychological horror, technology, memory, and family through emotionally driven genre storytelling. Drawing from a background in civil structural design and music performance and production, his work combines intimate human relationships with ambitious speculative ideas, often using sound, structure, and systems as narrative tools. The Finality of the Infinite is his debut feature screenplay and serves as the foundation of a broader slate of original work currently in development.