The Hearse Bay — Loading Dock Night

8-second final-transport dread short, 16:9, security camera. A hospital loading dock at 2 AM: the camera watches a hearse arrive with no driver — its back doors opening onto an empty coffin, lid ajar.

0-3s: Rain on the concrete, a single sodium light buzzing. The hearse rolls in — headlights off, engine silent, gliding to the bay with no driver visible through the windshield. It stops. The back doors swing open on their own. Inside: a coffin, its lid ajar by an inch, blackness within. The dock's roller door begins to rise — uncommanded, the motor straining.

3-6s: From the coffin, a pale hand emerges — gripping the door frame — and the lid slides fully open. The sodium light dies. The security camera's night vision kicks in — green-black — and a figure unfolds from the coffin: too tall, joints bending wrong, stepping down onto the wet concrete with a sound like settling wood. It turns toward the camera. Its face is the spitting image of the security guard watching the monitors.

6-8s: The feed cuts — to static, the timestamp freezing. Rain on the concrete. The empty bay.

Craft: the hearse's driverless glide, the coffin's ajar lid and blackness, the roller's uncommanded rise; the figure's wrong joints and the guard's face, the night-vision green-black. Camera: static dock cam, timestamped, the night-vision switch, 28mm feel. Lighting: sodium amber to night-vision green, rain atmosphere. Atmosphere: final-transport dread, the watcher watched. Style: static dock cam, timestamped, rain atmosphere, desaturated grade, photorealistic, 30fps.