In 1979, a horror double bill at the Auburndale Drive-In turned into a real-life slaughter.

Fifteen years later, four horror-obsessed middle-schoolers have made the abandoned drive-in their clubhouse, unaware of the tragedy that occurred in their idyllic hometown.

Now Calbert, Ray, John and Denise have a wonderful summer plan: They are going to make their own movie, inspired by the VHS tapes they rent religiously from the local video store. But the kids don’t realize they are about to awaken something far scarier than anything they’ve seen in the pages of their monster magazines.

Soon their parents have gone missing, their lecherous principal is stalking them through the neighborhood, and the evil force behind the original massacre is drawing them to a final confrontation inside the labyrinth of Sidewalk Video.

As the town's darkest secret threatens to consume them, the kids must use everything they know about horror to survive The Video Store Massacre.