leave the cabin and hike out of the area. Immediately they are separated and Scott runs into a duplicate of Penny who urges him to return the doll that he stole. Another Penny tells him that she never returned to the cabin and that Mr. Jones is gone. She wants him to forget about the doll and just leave. Scott ends up back in Mr. Jones' house and in the sub-basement where he is chased by hooded figures. He returns the doll and relights the candles in its eyes. He then puts on the mask he was left with earlier and pulls up his hood, making him look quite strange and bizarre. In the final scene we see Scott kissing Penny goodbye. A voice over suggests that he has become Mr. Jones. Apparently Mr. Jones was a shaman that guarded the borderline between a dream world and the waking world. Somehow Scott and Penny disturbed the balance between those worlds, so now Scott must protect it. Cast Jon Foster as Scott Sarah Jones as Penny Mark Steger as Mr. Jones Faran Tahir as The Anthropologist Stanley B. Herman as The Old Journalist Ethan Sawyer as Alleged Scarecrow Recipient Jordan Byrne as Peter Cavagnaro David Clennon as The Curator Jessica Dowdeswell as Penny Diane Neal as The Scholar Rachel O'Meara as The Skeptic Production Filming took place near Santa Clarita, California, at a movie ranch that had several derelict houses on it, as well as an abandoned mineshaft of which Mueller took advantage for some scenes that were supposed to have taken place in caverns. While filming, Mueller was inspired by director David Lynch and the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and wanted to design the film's soundtrack to "make it feel like you’re under water, or in somebody’s head and they have a bad cold." He was also inspired by the memory of a neighbor of his during childhood in Minnesota, as the man had lived in a "primitive shack of a cabin with no running water, trapped animals, and hung them up around the woods. He had lots of bizarre farming equipment overgrown by weeds around his house. He was the boogieman we made up stories about to scare ourselves at night." Reception Critical reception for Mr. Jones has been predominantly negative and the movie holds a rating of 50% on Rotten Tomatoes (based on ten reviews)