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==Plot==
Byron Orlok, an aged, embittered horror movie actor, abruptly announces his decision to retire from [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] and return to his native [[England]] to live out his final days. Orlok considers himself outdated because he believes that people are no longer frightened by old-fashioned horror, citing real-life news stories as more horrifying than anything in his films. However, after much persuasion, particularly from young director Sammy Michaels, Orlok agrees to make a final in-person promotional appearance at a [[Reseda, Los Angeles|Reseda]] [[drive-in theater]] before leaving Hollywood for good.

Bobby Thompson is a young, quiet, clean-cut insurance agent who lives in the suburban [[San Fernando Valley]] area with his wife and his parents. Thompson is also deeply disturbed and an obsessive gun collector, but his family takes little notice. One morning, after his father leaves for work, Thompson murders his wife, his mother, and a grocery delivery boy at his home. That afternoon, Thompson continues the killing spree, shooting people in passing cars from atop an oil storage tank that sits alongside a busy freeway. When an employee investigates the gunshots, Thompson shoots him as well. Leaving some of his guns and ammunition at the crime scene, Thompson flees to the same drive-in theater where Orlok is set to appear that evening.

After sunset, Thompson perches himself on the framing inside the screen tower. While the Orlok film is shown, Thompson kills the theater's projectionist and shoots at the patrons throughout the parking lot via a hole in the screen. After Thompson wounds Orlok's secretary, Jenny, Orlok confronts Thompson, who is disoriented by Orlok's simultaneous appearance before him and on the large movie screen behind him, allowing the actor to disarm Thompson using his walking cane. Looking at the defeated Thompson, a visibly shaken Orlok remarks, "Is ''that'' what I was afraid of?" Moments later, police officers arrive to arrest Thompson for the murders he has committed; as they lead him away, Thompson states with apparent satisfaction that he "hardly ever missed".