Concept for a netflix series
burglars break into a rich person's mansion, but the old man keeps saying he's excited to have roommates. the burglars don't really wanna be murderers, so they humor the old man.
at first, it's comedy and funny, and they're trying to lie like they applied for the lease and the burglars are doing the whole "ACT NATURAL" thing when the old man enters the room while they're doing thieving shit.
then things start to turn.
they can't find the front door.
none of the windows will open.
they try to escape through the backyard and almost starve to death because they got lost in it.
the paintings are watching them. the walls are rearranging behind them. there's always food that's ready for them to eat and they're starting to realize that it isn't the old man cooking the food.
they confront the old man, and he admits that playing along with them was to soften the blow and delay the inevitable; no one who enters the house can leave, and he doesn't know why. he and his own crew of burglars found that out the hard way, and he's the only one left alive.
now everyone's trying to escape, it's not even about stealing shit anymore, and the entire time the old man is just watching them with a sad, knowing expression. he and his own crew tried literally everything the new guys are trying, and none of it worked.
one of the guys starts to lose it, starts saying they're ants in a formicarium.
they realize they don't remember their names anymore.
one of them finds a room with a functional TV, and the news says it's been years since they tried to steal, but three days later they find another room with a different TV, and it says they're forty years in the past.
they realize they don't remember what they liked or disliked anymore.
one of them goes and weeds the garden out of desperation for something to do. the next morning he wakes up with a facial feature he always wanted but was impossible to get, like fangs or reflective eyes or something.
stuff happens, and they realize that this is a fae's den, and yes, they're in a terrarium for humans.
through a series of flashbacks you see them the day they decide to break into the house; the barista who didn't look quite right insisting on having their full names, only to write nicknames on their cups. nicknames they've been using this entire time. the rows of mushrooms they'd driven over to get to the mansion. all the times they ate the food in the mansion.
the scene cuts to the camera being dragged away, out the front door that's hidden behind four different walls, down the driveway, into a tree, and credits. Then the credits stop.
the barista is smiling at the camera.
"I'm sorry, but if you want to know how this ends, I'm going to need your full name please!"
lol idk i'm tired and this is what popped up
