吸血鬼狂热爱好者查理•布莱维斯特（William Ragsdale 饰）最大的爱好就是在深夜看恐怖电影。某晚，他隔壁的空房子里来了两个不速之客，根据多年观看恐怖片的经验，查理断定这两个人一定是吸血鬼。然而无论是警察，还是好友女友，没有一个人相信他的说辞。万般无奈之下，查理只能请来恐怖电视节目“颤栗之夜”的主持人皮特•文森特（Roddy McDowell 饰）。虽然文森特质疑查理的说法，但看在钱的份上他还是前来调查。面对纠缠不休的查理，吸血鬼杰瑞（Chris Sarandon 饰）该如何对付呢？

Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart. Footage from The Langoliers (1995) is edited, printed and animated into a paper nightmare.