In a sleepy Texas town, the Orbit Drive-in’s All-Night Horror Show is interrupted when a comet–not just any comet, but a red one with “a mouthful of jagged, saw-blade teeth”–flies overhead, leaving the patrons trapped in a deadly, sludge-like force field. The horrors depicted in Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre quickly fade as the surviving movie-goers descend into anarchy, madness, and (eventually) cannibalism; this bleak new world takes another twist with the arrival of the Popcorn King, an amalgam of human flesh and snack bar treats.