Chad Buckley is a horror enthusiast who also happens to be lonely. Chad spends his days bickering with Sam, the lone consistent customer at his floundering genre video store. As soon as an unsuspecting applicant walks through the door, Chad begins to educate him on the rules of horror and the operation of his video business in general, much to Sam's dismay. The onboarding process for Chad involves weaving in and out of various humorous horror shorts, each of which is targeted at a certain set of horror cliches. This new candidate begins to suspect Chad of being involved in something dark as he learns the ropes, but we soon discover that he may be hiding a secret of his own.