2AM: The Smiling Man

A deadly smile.

At 2 AM, a man awakens to find a smiling stranger standing motionless at his bedside. What begins as a home invasion descends into something far more unsettling—a presence that defies rational explanation. This claustrophobic short plunges into the space between sleep and waking, where terror stems not from violence but from the incomprehensible and the unwanted witness to one's most vulnerable moment.