Master (2022)

Gail Bishop becomes the newly appointed and first Black master of Ancaster, an elite university in New England. The school is rumored to be cursed by the ghost of Margaret Millett, who was accused of witchcraft and hanged nearby. African American student Jasmine Moore moves in as a freshman and is assigned to room 302 along with her white roommate, Amelia. Their room was once occupied in 1965 by Louisa Weeks, Ancaster's first Black undergraduate, who committed suicide by hanging in her dorm.

Jasmine initially makes friends with Amelia's clique of wealthy, white students, although they ask her to clean up spilled drinks and don't pay her back for a pizza she orders. She also experiences various microagressions from staff and students. At a party, Amelia's crush kisses Jasmine and Amelia sees them. Amelia whispers to Jasmine that she hates her despite the roommates telling Gail everything is fine between them. Gail's new residence develops a maggot infestation.

Jasmine starts having nightmares in which she is attacked by a presence and believes that her English professor, Liv Beckman, is purposely giving her bad grades. She files a dispute, which impacts Liv's application for tenure. Jasmine receives racist threats by an unknown person, including a noose being placed on her door and a cross burning on campus. Her nightmares intensify, and she begins researching Louisa Weeks and discovers that she, too, was being tormented by a presence prior to her suicide.

One night, Gail discovers Amelia crying outside after two unseen guys run off abruptly. Amelia suggests she may have been sexually assaulted by a student but refuses to go to a hospital or speak out. She also becomes increasingly disturbed by Jasmine's nightmares, as well as the ominous atmosphere at school, and eventually drops outs.

Jasmine is chased by a figure in a black cloak, causing her to fall out of a window and be hospitalized. She tells Gail about the presence and expresses her desire to leave Ancaster; however, Gail rejects the notion of a supernatural presence and believes she is being harassed by a racist student. Jasmine returns to school and is found a few days later dead in her room, hanged.

Gail is contacted by Liv's mother, Esther Bickert, an Amish woman, who informs her that Liv was actually born white and named Elizabeth. But Liv left the community, changed her name, and began to present herself as Black. Esther implies it must have been a possession by the devil to make her do this. When confronted at a faculty party, Liv denies these claims and tells Gail that she was actually the daughter of a Black man, leaving it to the audience to decide what is the truth. Liv eventually leaves, putting on a black cloak that resembles the figure that was terrorizing Jasmine.

Gail criticizes the all-white faculty for enabling the covertly racist culture at Ancaster and realizes that she was not truly the school's master, but rather the "maid" who was meant to clean up the school's diversity problems. Gail notices that history has repeated itself, with no changes to Ancaster's diversity, and she resigns from her position.