The Shaft

In David J. Schow's The Shaft, a low-level drug runner named Cruz is exiled from Miami to a decrepit Chicago rooming-house during a harsh winter. There, he encounters Jonathan, a heartbroken yuppie, and Jamaica, a prostitute entwined with a drug kingpin. After a tense incident involving cocaine and a police raid, the unsettling environment of the Kenilworth Arms reveals supernatural horrors, blending the gritty realities of drug-running with chilling, inexplicable phenomena that threaten their lives.