stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, frame-by-frame jerky movement...

stop-motion puppet animation, 12fps, Steve Burton claymation style, frame-by-frame jerky movement, cold blue and deep shadows, 1990s Soviet apartment CORRIDOR. NO GHOSTS, NO ORBS. CAMERA: static, facing entrance door from inside corridor. Girl in foreground on floor, door in background. No movement. CORRIDOR: Same wallpaper and linoleum as living room. Coat rack with coats, shoe rack, beige rotary telephone, framed embroidery. Entrance door — white wood, brass peephole, brass chain now TAUT and STRAINING, dark brown leatherette panel with vertical stitching, seams splitting. GIRL: EXACT SAME — warm beige skin, rosy cheeks, hazel-brown glass eyes (wide terror, pinpoint pupils), brown chin-length bob with straight bangs (disheveled), red barrette missing, NO white streak, burgundy cable-knit sweater (bunched), white blouse collar (askew), navy blue skirt (twisted), cream tights, right foot bare, left foot in dark blue slipper, chipped pale pink polish. HANDS EMPTY. ACTION: Girl lies on linoleum floor in foreground — fallen on her side, propped on one elbow. Her right arm raised toward door in WARDING GESTURE — index and pinky extended, middle and ring curled, thumb tucked. Her face is pure terror — mouth open in silent scream, eyes wide, tears on cheeks. THE ENTRANCE DOOR is partially open — held only by the straining brass chain. Through the gap, visible in the sliver of cold blue light: a DARK WOODEN COFFIN ON RUSTED IRON WHEELS. The coffin is vertical, pressed against the door. Dark aged oak with deep wood grain and small round wormholes. Heavy rusted wheels with bent nails and crude welding marks. Dark graveyard soil packed in crevices. The coffin LURCHES forward — one small, jerky movement, wheels squeaking. The door CREAKS open another centimeter. The chain LINKS STRETCH further — deforming from circles into ovals. Cold blue-white light POURS through the gap — thick, like liquid, flowing downward and pooling on the linoleum, spreading toward the girl. Through the brass peephole: a pinpoint of yellow light — something inside the coffin looking out. FINAL FRAMES: hold on girl on floor, arm raised in warding gesture, coffin visible through door gap, chain about to snap, cold light spreading toward her bare foot. Heavy film grain