Vicious

Polly is a directionless woman in her 30s who is stuck in a dead-end job and fretting over starting at school again. She lives alone in a house she rents from her sister Lainie whose daughter, Aly, Polly dotes over. As Polly prepares for an important interview, she is visited by an elderly woman. The woman gifts her a small wooden box and hourglass and claims that Polly is going to die that night. Unnerved, Polly escorts the woman out of her house and throws away the box. A malevolent entity impersonating her mother tells Polly that she will die unless she gives the box, which has reappeared in her house, something she hates, something she needs and something she loves. Polly attempts to get help from her neighbor across the street, asking her to call the police. The entity possesses the neighbor, forcing the neighbor to stab herself to death in retaliation for Polly telling others of the box. Polly uses a key she has vomited up after the box rejected her first sacrifice to unlock a closet filled with her deceased father's belongings. She retrieves a cross necklace and gives it to the box, having resented religion after losing her father to cancer, which it accepts. Lainie calls, claiming to have received several strange and threatening phone calls from Polly. Lainie ends the phone call claiming to see Polly outside despite her sister's warnings. Polly decides to cut off her pinky toe but the box is not satisfied. When Polly also cuts off her index finger and gives it to the box, it is satisfied. The house door unlocks and Polly rushes to Lainie's house but discovers her sister and family all dead inside. Polly decides to cut off a lock of Aly's hair and give it to the box which it accepts. Polly's family reawakens and all seems well until a violent apparition of Aly attacks Polly and stabs her. Polly awakens with the hourglass still running. She realizes she needs to pass the box on and visits Lainie's neighbor Tara, forcing the box upon her. Returning home, Polly is attacked by the old woman who initially gave her the box. Polly manages to kill the woman, who muses about the evil nature of the box. Polly emerges from her house to find the box is gone and her neighbor is still alive. Polly reunites with Lainie and Aly before going to check on Tara. Tara claims to not recognize Polly or know about the box but it is revealed she has killed her parents as well as cut off several fingers to please it.