Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33077235-20190912051836/@comment-9041013-20190912233444

It's a typical "haunted object" story. It's not scary but rather predictable and silly. It's also filled with weird and unnecessary details (like a guy and a girl sharing a dorm at what I assume is a college dormitory.)

If you want this to potentially work, give the USB drive some supernaturally defined spin. Something along the lines of the Acetate from the Constantine series. They vinyl contains a recording of the Devil's voice from when he came to collect a soul of a musician. The vinyl thus has supernatural properties as freezing everything in it's vicinity and making anyone who listen to the recording on it go mad with rage that eventually leads to them commiting suicide because of how awful the voice of the devil is.

Something along those lines.