Filmmaker Curtis Dupre seems to have everything he could want on the set of his second film: studio backing, a professional crew, and an actress he's admired for years in the starring role. But people begin to vanish from the set, and from the memories of everybody except Curtis. A strange visitor is eliminating those close to the young director, and there's no telling who is next. To save his friends, to save himself, Curtis Dupre will have to look into himself and discover what it truly means to be The Beginner."

The Climax Studios Festival of Fear is a Halloween tradition, but with monsters roaming the theme park and a monster movie filming on the adjacent film lot, what hell will break loose when a real zombie surfaces and starts biting? When you can't tell who's alive and who's undead, can a stuntman, a makeup artist, a sleaze-slinging blogger and a pair of former cops stop the end of the world from sneaking off the studio lot and infecting all of California?