A group of friends return home with Hunter Killian to support him as he shares a family secret only to learn that sometimes older secrets are more deadly. Hunter was childhood friends with Ben Holister but rumors of horrid abuse made Hunter's parents force him to stop playing with Ben. Hunter was Ben's only connection to reality and the ever-evading hope that he could one day lead a normal life. This disconnect combined with his deep isolation into the dreary world of abuse force him into creating a false view of pain, love, and the world of acceptance around him. Ben returns from this world pitted deeply with anger and terrorizes the friends with the lessons he's learned.
On Halloween eve, local outcast, Jacob Atkins, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond carnie named Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands, bringing Jacob back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.