Subscribe to ALTER on YouTube: goo.gl/LnXRC3 In 19th-century Vermont, a young woman's parents drink sleeping tea to survive the harsh winter, but an early thaw leads to horrifying results. The Thaw by Sean Temple & Sarah Wisner Starring Emily Bennett #ALTER #horror #shortfilm Connect with the Filmmakers: homebodypictures.com instagram.com/seantemplefilm instagram.com/homebody.sarah More About "The Thaw": THE THAW is set in the late 19th century in the challenging Vermont hills. Ruth and her aging parents, Alma and Timothy, struggle to subsist on a failing farm after Ruth is abandoned by her unfaithful husband. They turn to a remedy as old as the hills, a sleeping tea that allows the elderly and infirm to sleep out the winter months while frozen and packed in snow, to be safely revived in the spring. But when a storm blows in an early thaw, the ritual is broken and the sleepers wake too soon – to horrifying results. "The Thaw" Cr...