Welcome to Creep's Cost.

I'm an employee at a strange movie theater.

We don't open screen zero to the public.

Written by, It Darkly Gathers.

The movie theater that I work at is a pretty standard one.

Large lobby, popcorn, and candy stands and film posters everywhere that you look.

Numerous screens with row after row of seeds and soft, if a little dusty red fabric.

We have 12 screens in total, officially. They're pretty

obviously laid out. You grab your ticket and had passed the attendant in the little roped

off gate. Down you go through one of the wide scarlet corridors of the complex, passed large,

faintly glowing white signs with enormous numbers

printed across their faces.

Screens 1 to 5 on the left, screens 7 to 12 on the right, screen 6 straight ahead, screens

9 and onwards require you to head around the corner at the far end, and for screen

12, another still.

There's a bunch of stuff back there, a large supply closet, a vending machine, restrooms,

employee-only areas that lead you to some of the screens backstages.

It's not as exciting as you might think.

And there's something else as well.

We don't really know much about it. The big boss has forbidden us from heading down, but he's never actually here. So naturally, we ignore this rule pretty frequently. My immediate supervisor loves going down. When there's a few of us off

shift, we'll typically sneak off as a little squad. Head down with a few boxes of popcorn and watch for like an

hour or more. It's always fascinating and it's always different. Screen Zero.

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