A young man named Zach Cooper, and his mother Gale move to a small town, where he meets a girl named Hannah, who has an overprotective father named Mr. Shivers, when Zach went to school the next day, there was an after school assembly, where his mother is the vice principle, and she announced about an upcoming fall dance, while there, makes friends with a boy named Champ. The next night, Zach hears a scream and calls the police to make sure that Hannah is okay, but when the police came, Shivers told them that the screen was coming from a horror movie that he was watching on his TV.