Miriam Kreisl
Background
Miriam Kresl is an elementary school teacher in Frankfurt, Germany. She has a pet rabbit named Rabbit and has a collection of Rabbit trinkets. Miriam also has pet fish. She went to school at a boarding school and never met her parents.
During the events of The Sect (1991) played by Kelly Curtis
Moebius Kelly gets off the bus and is almost hit by Miriam who swerves and crashes her car to avoid hitting him. A crowd gathers and Moebius gets up and Miriam offers to drive him to the hospital. While they are driving, Moebius tells her that he doesn't want to go to the hospital and she offers to let him rest at her house. They go inside and and Moebius tells her that he used to live in a house like hers. Miriam picks up Rabbit and tells Moebius that she lives alone. He tells her that she isn't ready and is psychologically unstable. He grabs her hand and tells her that she has to claim her birthright. He tells her that he doesn't want to die yet and asks her to take him to the bus stop. Kathryn calls Miriam and Miriam tells her that she has company. Miriam walks back into her living room and Moebius is sleeping. During the night, Moebius puts a beetle on her face while she is asleep, which then goes up her nostril. Miriam has a dream where she follows Rabbit to where a children's cry is coming from. She walks into a meadow where there is a large tree with wind chimes and a man tied to the tree. She starts to free him and is attacked by a Large Stork, which pecks at her neck.
Miriam wakes up and finds Moebius choking. She drives to Dr. Pernath's house and as she does, Moebius gets up and walks to the basement. When Miriam arrives at Dr. Pernath's house, Frank tells her that Dr. Pernath is not home, but he is also a doctor. They get into Miriam's car and drive back to her house. Miriam and Frank run into the house and when he starts sneezing, tells Miriam that he hates rabbits. They walk into the basement and Miriam tells Frank that she didn't know about the extent of her basement. They find Moebius' body and Frank shows Miriam the shroud Moebius had. An ambulance arrives and a Male nurse asks where Moebius is and removes Moebius' body. Frank flirts with Miriam before he leaves. In the morning, a blue stringy substance starts coming out of Miriam's pipes. Miriam follows Rabbit into the basement and finds the well and a woman in her basement. Miriam notices she is hiding something and pulls the shroud Moebius used from the woman.
During school, Miriam sees Claire Henri waving at her from the window. She tells Samantha that Claire is waiting to pick her up. Miriam looks at the drawing that Samantha is making and it looks like the beetle that climbed into Miriam's nose. At the end of school, Kathryn chastises Miriam for letting a stranger into her house. As they are talking, Miriam sees Samantha and Samantha tells her that Claire is gone. Miriam and Kathryn drop Samantha off at her house and Mr. Henri tells them that no one has seen Claire. He invites them into his house and Samantha calls Miriam into Claire's office, which is filled with drawings of the beetle that crawled up Miriam's nose. Mr. Henri tells Miriam that the beetle was Claire's latest find and Miriam suddenly collapses. Kathryn drops off Miriam at her house and invites her to come stay with her. Kathryn finds Moebius' shroud and it attaches itself to her face. Miriam helps her take it off and then goes to give Kathryn some water. She comes back and Kathryn drives away.
Miriam goes to look at her fish and finds it dead from the blue sticky water. She takes a blue water bath and hears a message from Moebius telling her that he left his journal. Frank calls Miriam and tells her to go the hospital. She goes and finds Dr. Pernath trying to stabilize Kathryn. Kathryn flatlines and when Miriam goes to look at her body, Kathryn tells her that it is all her fault and tries to strangle her and then slits her throat. Miriam tells Frank about the message Moebius left on her answering machine and Frank takes her to the hospital mortuary to prove Moebius is dead. Frank finds a coffin finds bits of human remains. They go back to Miriam's house and Frank gives her a sleeping pill.
Miriam wakes up and finds her bed full of larva. She runs to the door and Frank attacks her with a knife. She runs back into the house and starts growing a large growth on her neck. Miriam gets into her car and drives away and Frank jumps through the window and attacks her and the car crashes and starts leaking gasoline. She runs back to her house Moebius is in her living room. He tells her that the sect were the ones who take care of her when she was growing up and got her the teaching job and house. Dr. Pernath injects her with something and she wakes up in the basement. The Large Stork flies up from the well and proceeds to rape Miriam while puncturing her neck growth. Afterwards Dr. Pernath cleans Miriam's wound and tells her that she is about to give life. Moebius tells Miriam that the well under the house is a doorway to Hell. Miriam is lowered into the well and screams. First midwife and Second midwife help Miriam through the birth and she is given the option of joining the sect. Most of the sect leaves the house and Miriam pushed Dr. Pernath into the well, killing her. She takes the baby boy from Moebius and Damon rides after her and catches fire and explodes when he rides into the fire from the car accident. Miriam plunges her and the baby boy into the fire and Moebius jumps into the fire to stop her. The fire department arrives and puts out the fire and Miriam is miraculously unhurt, while Moebius and the baby are burnt to a crisp. She figures out her baby boy protected her from the flames and stares into the sky.
