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00:00In 1993, Harold enters his basement and takes Polaroid pictures of the many creepy things he
00:05keeps there. He also says hi to his worms and adds new content to his very disturbing scrapbook.
00:10In the evening, someone rings the bell but when he opens the door there's nobody there.
00:14As Harold enters the house, the door closes behind him and lamps and books begin to fall.
00:18Suddenly the power goes out and Harold lights a candle to rush to the basement while the cuckoo
00:22clock goes off. As soon as he closes the door, something on the other side starts shaking it.
00:27Harold asks to be left alone but when he steps back, he trips and falls down the stairs.
00:31The candle falls too and the flames begin spreading through the basement until they explode.
00:35In 2023, Allison shows her boyfriend Isaiah and her friend James that someone altered the video
00:40invitation she made for her upcoming Halloween party. Meanwhile Nathan arrives at Harold's old
00:44house, which is being renovated. After startling Isaiah's father and builder Ben, Nathan explains
00:50he's inherited the house. When he says he wants to check out the basement, Ben informs him that
00:54the door is stuck. Nathan tries to pry the door open but ends up injuring his hand instead.
00:58While Ben takes him to another room to get stitches, Nathan's blood moves like a worm and
01:02enters the keyhole, finally opening the basement door. The next day during an important test,
01:07the principal's daughter Margot carefully leans away from her desk to let Isaiah copy the answers.
01:12After class, Allison tells them that her harasser sent the video invitation to her parents,
01:16who made her delete it to cancel the party. However Isaiah thinks they just need a new venue.
01:20That night, Isaiah, James, and Allison go to Harold's house. Since Ben always uses the same
01:26code at work, Isaiah can open the lock and they easily get inside. The friends try on their costumes
01:31and some lights, only for the power to go out. At that moment the basement door opens and the group
01:36is startled by a voice but it's only Margot at the front door. After explaining he invited her,
01:40Isaiah goes to the basement to look for the fuse box. As he looks around he's startled by a face,
01:45but it turns out to be just a mask. When Isaiah picks up Harold's camera,
01:49the basement door slams closed. The other teens panic but can't open it. Suddenly the door opens
01:54again and pushes James, causing him to hit his head against the cuckoo clock. The door closes again
01:59and the trio worries about the weird noises, gasping when something comes out. It's just Isaiah,
02:03who takes a picture with the old camera. At that moment the power comes back, however Isaiah admits
02:08he never found the fuse box. Moments later the party is in full swing. Lucas shows Margot some strange
02:14worms he found around and eats one. Allison is angry that Isaiah invited Margot and storms off.
02:19At that moment Nathan finally shows up and kicks them all out, threatening to call the cops if they
02:23don't leave. All the teens run away and some of them take a shortcut through the forest.
02:27Isaiah can't find Allison and tries calling her but he's sent to voicemail. In the woods,
02:32Allison is lost and asks a stranger in the shadows for directions, but there's no answer. Allison walks in
02:37the opposite direction only to find the stranger again, who starts chasing her. Near the house,
02:41Isaiah hears Allison scream and goes looking for her. In the forest Allison bumps against the figure,
02:46who turns out to be Harold. His body suddenly starts burning down and Allison steps back,
02:51only to trip and roll down the hill. At that moment Isaiah finds her and helps her go home,
02:55but he doesn't see Harold. The next day at school Nathan enters the cafeteria to return
02:59Isaiah's bag and announces he's the new English teacher. Isaiah gets nervous but Nathan tells him
03:04they can start over and forget about the party. Afterward Isaiah finds two pictures in his bag,
03:09one of scared Allison, and one of scared Margot. Meanwhile Margot is using the vending machine
03:14when she sees Harold in the hallway. The machine changes the snack choice and Margot eats it without
03:18checking while all the students leave their classrooms, causing her to lose sight of Harold.
03:22Suddenly Margot starts having an allergic reaction and Isaiah arrives just in time to take an EpiPen
03:27from her bag and inject her to save her. After the nurse arrives, Isaiah looks at the picture
03:31again and realizes it matches Margot. A terrified Isaiah runs to show the pictures to James,
03:36telling him that the camera is haunted. James doesn't believe it and takes a picture of his
03:39friend to prove it's harmless, but leaves without looking at it. When Isaiah looks at the picture,
03:44he sees himself in his uniform with a wound on his arm. Later Isaiah tries showing the picture to Margot,
03:49but the image disappears. He's convinced Margot and Allison were attacked by the curse and he's next.
03:54Margot is tired of Isaiah always talking about himself and leaves. A furious Isaiah goes home and
03:59smashes the camera before lighting it on fire. In the evening Isaiah's team is having a wonderful match.
04:04However during halftime Isaiah opens his locker and finds the camera. Getting scared, he asks his
04:09teammates to protect him. When the match continues, Isaiah hesitates to play and is shocked to see a
04:14player transforming into Harold. When he asks the referee for time, he discovers the man has also
04:19become Harold. The field catches on fire but nobody seems to notice except for Isaiah and Lucas' mother
04:24Nora. The hallucination makes Isaiah think the ball is melting in his hands while the crowd is confused
04:28to watch him stand there doing nothing. Soon Isaiah thinks all the players have become monsters and are
04:33chasing him, so he finally starts to run. Nora screams they should stop the game but she's ignored.
04:38During the chase Isaiah falls to the ground and thinks the monsters are going to eat him,
04:42but the hallucination finally ends and he sees it's just his family and friends. His arm is broken so
04:47they take him to the hospital, where he learns recovery will take from around eight months.
04:50This means he'll miss the scholarship window. At that moment Nora shows up and tells Ben she saw Harold.
04:56She thinks he's come back to make them pay for what they did to him by attacking their children.
04:59When Isaiah is released, Margot visits him to apologize for the other day. She asks him what he
05:04saw on the field but Isaiah tells her to stay out of this. At Harold's house, the fireplace goes off
05:09and Nathan hears a door opening. Harold appears nearby and becomes smoked to enter Nathan's mouth,
05:14possessing him. Going back to the day of the party, Isabella spends her morning using a troll
05:18account to insult her classmates online. When she goes to school, she tries talking to a few people
05:23but even teachers ignore her. Lucas bumps into her while skating downstairs, saying he didn't even
05:28notice her. Tired of being treated like this Isabella uses her troll account to insult people
05:32online again. Allison also crashes against her and doesn't apologize, so when Isabella overhears her
05:38talking about a party, she sends the invitation to Allison's parents. Later at home Isabella sees a
05:43post on social media announcing the party has been moved and her brother Alan convinces her to go.
05:47During the party, she hears someone calling her from the basement. She goes downstairs and finds the mask,
05:52which tells her she deserves to be seen so she should put it on. Isabella does so and returns
05:57to the party feeling more confident. Everyone turns around to look at her and she even dares
06:01to get close to Isaiah. After the party Isabella goes home and panics when she can't take off the mask.
06:06Luckily she manages to do it after some pulling but doesn't notice that the mask changed its expression.
06:11The Monday after the big game, Isabella is getting ready for school and the mask tells her to take it.
06:15Nathan finally wakes up after being asleep the whole weekend and blames it on the alcohol,
06:19he also has trouble walking. When he realizes it's Monday, he rushes to the school. In the
06:24corridors he keeps crashing and falling because Harold wants control of his limbs. He tries hiding
06:29in the bathroom and sees Harold in the mirror asking him to find someone. Then Harold takes
06:33control of the body. Meanwhile Isaiah asks Isabella for her recording of the match. While Isaiah watches
06:38the game for clues, Isabella hears a commotion outside and rushes to find Lucas climbing the bleachers.
06:43He ignores her warnings as he jumps to hold on to her drone and ends up crashing on the ground.
06:48Afterward Principal Colin makes Lucas apologize to Isabella and the mask tells her he's a liar.
06:52Lucas offers to give them five bucks a week until the drone's paid for but the mask convinces Isabella
06:57not to accept the offer. She points out the drone is expensive and he'll never make that much money
07:01before getting aggressive and throwing some insults. When Colin tries to calm things down, Isabella tells
07:06him off too. At that moment she snaps out of it and apologizes for her attitude. She accepts the five
07:12bucks a week and storms off. Since Isaiah doesn't find anything weird in the video,
07:16he goes to the changing room to find the camera but it isn't there. Suddenly he's startled by Nathan
07:20blowing a whistle and claiming he's practicing to be a referee. He asks Isaiah a bunch of questions
07:25about Ben while acting very strangely. At the cafe Nora can't stop thinking about the incident during
07:30the big game. Nathan comes in and while making his order Nora learns he's living in Harold's house.
07:35When Nora turns around, Nathan disappears from behind the counter and reappears next to her,
07:39claiming he's just grabbing his food. That night Nora tries talking to Isaiah but Ben interrupts them
07:44and sends Isaiah to his room. Nora tells Ben that Harold's ghost broke Isaiah's arm but Ben doesn't
07:49believe her and sends her away. At that moment Margot walks by so Nora gives her a picture of
07:53Harold and asks her to check if Isaiah recognizes him. Minutes later Margot shows the photo to Isaiah,
07:58who recognizes the boy from the field and finally tells his friend what he saw. Margot explains she did
08:03some research and confirms that's Harold, the boy that died in the house fire. This means Nora knows
08:08something. Meanwhile Isabella's grounded for taking her father's drone without permission. Alan shows
08:13Isabella that Lucas has uploaded a video of his drone trick and the mask keeps offering his help
08:17in whispers only she can hear. Outside the cafe, Lucas is practicing his skating tricks and falls.
08:23Isabella shows up wearing the mask to throw the skateboard at him, making him fall again. Lucas grabs
08:28the skateboard to defend himself but Isabella breaks it and starts beating him with the resulting parts.
08:32Then she throws Lucas against some trash cans before the mask takes over her head to become
08:36a full goblin. Suddenly the creature is hit by Isaiah and Margot, so it runs away. In the middle
08:41of the night Alan hears some noises and goes downstairs to find the goblin trashing the kitchen.
08:45He grabs the phone to call his sister for help, only to hear the phone ringing in the goblin's
08:49pocket. When he says Isabella's name, the goblin hears him and starts chasing him, so Alan hides in
08:54the playhouse outside. The goblin searches the area to no avail and Alan thinks he's safe, but then the
08:59creature breaks the window to try to grab him. Alan keeps begging his sister for mercy and using her name,
09:04allowing her to fight against the goblin magic and finally remove the mask. The siblings share a hug
09:09and go to the river to throw the mask into the water. After they're gone, Nathan shows up to look
09:13at the same spot. The next day Ben gathers the other parents so they can have a talk with Nora,
09:18who insists Harold is back and he's coming after their kids. However nobody believes her. Meanwhile
09:23Isabella plays pool with James and accidentally hits him with a ball, causing him to explode like a slime.
09:28The story then shows the night of the party again. After hitting his head against the cuckoo clock,
09:32James keeps feeling pain, but he refuses to go to the hospital. During the party he tries flirting
09:37with Sam but it doesn't go well, so he decides to leave. When he crosses the door, he walks through
09:42an invisible field that sends him back to the moment he hits his head. He can predict what his friends
09:46are about to say and concludes he's in a time loop, but the others don't believe him. James tries leaving
09:51the house through every door and every window, but he's always sent back to the same moment. Eventually
09:55he gives up and sits to accept his fate. He's approached by Sam, who offers some comforting words.
10:00This time James asks him about his favorite soccer team and searches for information online before
10:05time restarts. During the next loop, James impresses Sam with his soccer knowledge and they end up
10:10kissing. Sam invites him to go somewhere more private but before leaving, James stops the cuckoo clock.
10:16On his way out, he's happy to notice there's no force field and time keeps passing normally.
10:20The next morning James is grabbing breakfast when he's suddenly surrounded by dozens of copies of
10:24himself. It turns out that every time he used the portal, a clone was born. When James tries to run
10:29away,
10:30the copies cover his head with a bag and drag him to the old mine. At school, a clone tells
10:35Allison that there may be something between Isaiah and Margot. Then he misses a date with Sam,
10:39which triggers a fight. Later during the pool match Isabella screams at the goo explosion and
10:44all the adults rush in to check on them. Isabella tells them James exploded, but another clone has
10:48appeared on the same spot and pretends the goo was a prank. A terrified Isabella says this isn't James
10:53and gets ready to defend herself but her mother takes her away. That night Isabella sees a clone in her
10:58garden asking her to keep the secret. The next day after class Isaiah and Margot call James out for
11:03not returning their texts. They try to tell him about the goblin and the camera but clone James
11:07pretends he doesn't believe them and says Isaiah invented the camera story to cover he's bad at
11:11football. Suddenly this James explodes like slime because Isabella hits him with a bat.
11:16Afterward the three teens share their stories and Isabella even confesses she was the goblin.
11:20Since both the camera and the mask came from Harold's house, they think that what's happening to
11:24James is connected to that place too. Meanwhile the real James wakes up in a dark pit and finds some
11:28abandoned tools. He moves some pieces of wood to create a ladder but when he tries to climb it,
11:33it crumbles and he falls. At Harold's house, Nathan is tidying up while dancing to some music.
11:38It's revealed he's retrieved the mask and that he eats worms for breakfast. When the CD starts
11:42skipping, he destroys the music player with a stick. At that moment Colin rings the bell because he's
11:47heard some ruckus, but Nathan swears he's fine and invites him in. They discuss the kids that broke in
11:52to throw that party and Nathan uses the chance to ask more questions about their parents. Isabella,
11:57Margo, and Isaiah wait outside James' house until a clone comes out and they follow him to the mine.
12:01They also follow him into the tunnel only for the clone to turn around and announce it's a trap.
12:06A mine cart starts chasing after them so the trio runs to the entrance, where a bunch of clones are
12:10waiting. Another James appears behind them claiming to be the real one to guide them into another room,
12:15where one more James shows up to tell them their guide is also a clone. The boys argue over who
12:19is the
12:19real one and Isaiah decides to hit the guide with a piece of wood, which kills the slime.
12:24However the other James admits he isn't real either before more clones show up.
12:27The trio tries to run away but Isaiah is captured with a bag and thrown into the pit. James is
12:32happy
12:32to see him until Isaiah hits him in the head with a rock to confirm he's the real one.
12:36An argument ensues because James can't believe Isaiah can't tell his real friend from a copy.
12:41The fight is interrupted when the girls arrive through another tunnel. Now the friends can escape
12:45together, but as they run out a door closes and splits the group again. Six clones immediately
12:50surround them so Isaiah and James work together like the old times and fight the copies,
12:54making them explode one by one. Afterward the four friends go to the cafe to feed James.
12:58Margot calls her mother Sarah to ask if she knows anything about Harold. Sarah tells her not
13:03to talk to anyone about that and hangs up. Meanwhile Nathan is in the basement crossing off
13:07pictures on the old notebook. At that moment another clone brings him a mysterious suitcase,
13:11but when Nathan opens it he sees it's empty. A furious Nathan then destroys the James copy.
13:16The next morning Nora wakes up next to Colin and admits she feels guilty for getting naughty with
13:20a married man. In the meantime Lucas wants to make a special trick with a bike to honor his father's
13:25memory, but in the end he doesn't dare to. When he returns home, he leaves the bike in the garage
13:29and finds a weird toy eye. On his way out he sees Colin dropping Nora off and kissing her,
13:34so he records them. At school Colin calls Nathan to his office because he's taken too many sick days off.
13:39Nathan tells him a friend of his has been missing for a while and blames his behavior on his bad
13:43mental state. On his way back to the classroom, Nathan notices Lucas using the toy eyeball as a
13:48keychain and tries to grab it, but Lucas dodges him and rushes to class. The reflection of the vending
13:53machine shows Harold controlling Nathan. After school Lucas invites Margot to his house and shows
13:58her the video of their parents kissing. Margot gets really upset so Lucas shows her all the worms
14:03he's brought from Harold's house. When he tries to eat one, the worm enters his nose and he almost chokes,
14:07but he makes an effort until he swallows it anyway. That night the worms escape from the
14:11tank and enter Lucas' body through every available hole. The next morning Lucas grabs his daily
14:16breakfast burrito but today he can't stand the taste. Instead he ends up eating trash from the
14:20cafe's bins. At school, Lucas is accidentally pushed down the stairs by three boys. However he quickly
14:26recovers without any pain or wounds at all. Afterward he punches his locker and even gets his fingers
14:31smashed, but he still doesn't feel any pain as his broken bones heal themselves. This is noticed by
14:36Nathan watching him from behind a door. Meanwhile Allison refuses to talk about what happened in
14:40the forest and argues with Isaiah over Margot again. She refuses to listen and goes to talk to
14:45Colin instead. On his way back Isaiah sees Lucas pushing his bike through the halls. The group
14:50discusses Lucas' weird behavior and Margot remembers the worms, which could be considered another weird
14:55item from Harold's house. Their conversation is interrupted when Colin calls Margot to his office.
15:00It turns out Allison told him about Isaiah using his daughter to cheat so now he tries to scold her.
15:04Margot says she learned it from her father and reveals she knows about his affair. At that moment
15:09they hear a noise and look out the window to discover Lucas on the roof of the school with his
15:12bike.
15:13He makes a big jump and lands on top of Colin's car, wrecking it. When Colin tries to scold him,
15:18Lucas asks him to stop seeing his mom. When Lucas tries to leave, Margot follows him and notices he has
15:24a dislocated shoulder, however Lucas just pops it back. Now Margot can see the worms living under his skin.
15:29Before leaving he mentions something about the Booms of Doom. Afterward Margot goes to Nora and tells her
15:34everything. Nora recognizes Booms of Doom as the place where her husband died doing a bike trick.
15:39They rush to the mountains and stop Lucas before he does the jump. When he says he wants to finish
15:44the trick his father couldn't complete, Nora reveals her husband did this dangerous jump knowing he
15:48wouldn't make it, which she knows because she found his note. She never told Lucas because she didn't
15:52write to ruin the image he had of his father. All these overwhelming feelings cause Lucas to get off the
15:57bike
15:57and throw up every single worm. While mother and son hug, the worms pile up to create a big monster.
16:03Lucas sends the women to the car before jumping on his bike to make the worms chase after him.
16:07He rides through the forest and soon reaches the road, where the women are speeding up in the car
16:11to dodge an attack as the worms jump out of the water. Eventually the group reaches the sawmill
16:15and locks the door, but the worms are sneaking in through the cracks. Lucas tells Margot and Nora to
16:20start the chipper while he gets on the bike again to buy time. As the worms chase after Lucas,
16:24the women turn on the chipper but it stops working after a machinery piece fails. Nora runs downstairs
16:29to fix it only to be knocked down by the monster. Margot runs to reach the chipper and turns it
16:34on
16:34just in time. The monster hits Lucas, who jumps off his bike before it lands into the chipper.
16:39The worms are caught by the blades too and they try to bring Lucas down with them,
16:42but they aren't strong enough and the machine kills them. Afterward the teens run away before the
16:46police arrive. Nora is tired of lying and tells them what truly happened, so she's sent to a mental hospital.
16:52They keep her fully medicated and she starts seeing Harold around the facility,
16:55saying he wants him back. Later Nathan visits the sawmill and picks up the toy eyeball that Lucas
17:00accidentally dropped. Nathan also goes to the mental hospital just to watch Nora go crazier by the
17:05second. While Nora is in the hospital, Lucas stays at Margot's house. One night Sarah comes back as a
17:10surprise, shocking everyone. She had been living in the city for work but she's ready to live with her
17:15family again. Needing to clear her head, Margot goes for a walk with Lucas and they end up kissing.
17:21Meanwhile Isaiah tells James that he broke up with Allison. At the same time, Nathan is still
17:25controlled by Harold and decides it's time to reveal the truth, so he grabs the old scrapbook.
17:30That afternoon Sarah visits Nora at the hospital and hears about Harold looking for him. After the
17:34visit is over, Sarah is surprised to bump into Colin, who takes her home to have a serious talk.
17:39He confesses the affair so it's finally time for them to break up. A crying Sarah takes a moment to
17:44have a breakdown in the car before visiting Nora again to tell her she's not crazy,
17:48they're just giving her medicine to make her think so. She advises Nora to stop taking that
17:52medicine and swears she believes her. After Sarah leaves a nurse brings Nora her medication,
17:57so Nora only pretends to swallow it. At school Nathan gives Margot the scrapbook,
18:01saying he randomly found it in the basement and her mother may be interested in it.
18:04As Margot looks at its contents, she finds old pictures of parents during their school days and
18:09has a vision of Harold taking photos of a young Ben and Sarah. After she snaps out of it,
18:13she notices a page that says in the dark room and rushes there. She has another vision showing
18:17her that Harold and Sarah used to be friends. Margot gathers her friends at the school stage
18:22to show them the scrapbook and the visions. They start to argue about whether it's too dangerous
18:26to use it since all the items they got from Harold's house so far have equaled trouble.
18:30Lucas thinks it should be Margot's decision, so she opens the scrapbook to have another vision.
18:34Young Harold is telling Sarah that he's scared because someone's trying to hurt him but he can't explain how.
18:38When Sarah tries to leave, Harold grabs her hand and tries to force her to stay, which terrifies
18:44her into running away. Suddenly the Harold in the vision looks at Margot and says she can't leave
18:48either. The book's pages move on their own and Margot's friends freak out when they notice her eyes
18:52changing. Since Margot won't react to their words, Isabella slaps her but it doesn't work either.
18:57They notice the book now shows Harold's house and conclude Margot needs the right location to leave
19:02the vision. The group pushes her through the corridors to get to the car. In the vision,
19:06a burnt Harold drags Margot to his house to watch the night of the fire. Ben, Sarah,
19:11and the other parents appear outside the basement after Harold locks himself up. Suddenly Margot takes
19:15Harold's place on the stairs, so she falls and causes the fire. The smoke is starting to get her
19:20but at that moment her friends show up in the vision to save her. They all run outside and watch
19:24their parents coming out of the house with a mysterious suitcase. Before they can go back to
19:28save Harold, the explosion happens. The parents wonder if they should call the police but they agree they
19:33would blame for this so they leave with the case. The teens then return to reality and wonder if
19:37their parents are killers. Nathan interrupts them to invite them in, promising to tell them everything.
19:42When the group goes inside, they notice Nathan has the suitcase so he begins telling the story.
19:47In 1925 in New York City, Nathan's grandfather Ephraim is failing to impress the audience with his
19:52magic tricks. He decides to buy something new and hears a voice at the store telling him to get an
19:56old
19:56suitcase. When he gets home, he shows his wife the contents of the suitcase, it's a puppet named Slappy.
20:02Inside the toy's clothes he finds a card with six weird words that he reads aloud.
20:06After Ephraim turns around, Slappy moves on his own. The first time Ephraim acts with Slappy,
20:12the audience hates it at first. However Slappy starts talking with his own voice and insults
20:16Ephraim, which makes everyone laugh. The act becomes a success and soon there are big crowds
20:20in theaters to watch it. Ephraim's wife says he doesn't spend time with his family anymore,
20:25but Ephraim says he chooses Slappy. Thirty-five years later their shows aren't successful anymore.
20:30The theater owner recommends booking a clown as an opening act, but Ephraim refuses. After the man
20:35leaves, Slappy orders Ephraim to deal with him. When the owner comes back, Slappy tells Ephraim to
20:40use the spell. Ephraim repeats the words from the card and kills the man by transforming him into a
20:45puppet. Sometime later Ephraim pays two men to steal a coffin that says Kandu from a mausoleum. He finds a
20:51card inside and reads it, which shows him a vision of a building burning down. Ephraim realizes Slappy has
20:56been using him to commit crimes, so he locks him up inside the case. Two weeks later Ephraim moves
21:01to the house and hides the suitcase in a hole in a wall. In 1993 Ephraim dies, so his granddaughter
21:07moves in with her husband and her son Harold, who can hear a voice through the basement wall.
21:11On Harold's first day of school, his dad gifts him a camera. At school he joins the photography club
21:16and meets members Nora and Sarah. Every day he works with them, his crush on Sarah works. One day,
21:21Harold is invited to a party by Sarah at Ben's place. Harold is excited about it, but in the end
21:26he is too shy to go. A frustrated Harold throws an object at the wall and accidentally breaks an old
21:31brick, allowing him to find the suitcase. He also finds the card in the puppet's clothes and reads
21:36them before leaving, unaware of the puppet's eyes moving. At school Harold tries to join the drama
21:40club with his Slappy act. It doesn't go well at first, but when Slappy starts talking and insulting,
21:46everyone loves it. One afternoon Nora finds Slappy telling Harold that he can't trust Sarah.
21:50She storms out to find Sarah and tell her what she saw. The next morning Harold's parents say they
21:55heard him talking to his doll all night and want him to leave it at home. Harold snaps and yells
21:59at
21:59them so his father takes the suitcase from him before sending him to school. Then the couple
22:03throws Slappy into the fire, but the puppet won't burn. Harold catches them red-handed and freaks out,
22:08so they have to hold him down. Slappy tells him to use the spell thus Harold repeats the mysterious
22:13words, transforming his parents into puppets. During the school talent show, Harold and Slappy try their
22:18new act. Slappy starts insulting his friends using all their secrets, so the teacher has to get them
22:23off the stage. The friends confront him after the show but Harold just tells them they don't
22:27understand the plan that is in motion. After Harold leaves, Nora points out it's the puppet's fault and
22:32they agree to steal it. On the night of the fire, the group creates all the distractions that make
22:36Harold think something weird is happening. Ben steals Slappy and the puppet insults him as the power
22:40goes out. The group tries to get Harold out of the basement but the door is stuck and the smoke
22:44is
22:44starting to come out, so they have to leave the house. Outside Slappy forces the suitcase open
22:49and tells them it's not over. Ben immediately breaks it into pieces and locks him in the suitcase
22:53again. Nora can sense the puppet won't burn so they agree to bury him and never talk about this again.
22:58In the present the teens ask Nathan how he knows all this and his body changes to reveal he's Harold
23:03possessing Nathan. Suddenly he disappears and the group runs to the door, which is locked. Isaiah and
23:08Lucas force it open only to find an empty abyss on the other side. It turns out the real teens
23:12are sitting on the couch with black eyes because they're trapped in the scrapbook.
23:16Nathan is using their phones to text their parents saying they'll spend the night at a friend's
23:19house. At the mental hospital Nora goes to see Victoria, who is the boss here and Isabella's
23:24mother. Nora reveals she hasn't taken the medicine and her mind is clear now, so they can't keep her
23:29locked up any longer without her consent. After Nora leaves Victoria texts someone to tell them about
23:33it. In the elevator Nora finds Nathan and notices Harold's reflection on the doors. He demands to know
23:39where Slappy is, but at that moment the elevator stops on another floor and Nora runs away. Later
23:44at home Nora searches the bag where she keeps Slappy. Colin finds her and wants to hang out but Nora
23:48leaves
23:49alone in her car, unaware someone is following her. Feeling confused, Colin goes to ask Ben for
23:54relationship advice and mentions the bag with the doll, which shocks Ben and causes him to rush out
23:58of the house. At Harold's house the teens try all the doors and windows to no avail. Suddenly they hear
24:03some
24:03steps and think it's a monster, so they get ready to defend themselves. However it's the real Nathan,
24:08who is stuck in the scrapbook as well. At that moment Isabella notices a light coming from under a
24:13door. They take a peek and find the same infinite abyss, but this one has a light in the middle.
24:18Using some drapes, they make a rope long enough to send Isabella down to reach the light.
24:22She's surprised to discover the light is their high school in the 90s and follows the sound of creepy
24:26laughter to the stage. The public is all puppets laughing, so a terrified Isabella runs back to the rope.
24:31The group starts pulling her out at the same time Harold rips off the school page from the scrapbook,
24:36causing the school setting to crumble. As the group keeps on pulling, they accidentally slip
24:40and Nathan hits his head against the wall, allowing him to return to his body. Harold quickly catches
24:45on and sends him back to the scrapbook, where the drapes are about to break. Thankfully the teenagers
24:49are strong enough to save Isabella just in time. Meanwhile Ben and James' mother Eliza go to the old
24:54mine. Ben descends into the pit and confirms Slappy is gone. At that moment a James clone appears and
25:00drops the rope so Ben can't climb out. Next the clone goes after Eliza and she notices this isn't
25:05her real son. When he tries to attack her, Ben appears behind him to stop him, but the clone
25:09is stronger and starts choking him. Eliza grabs a piece of wood and hits the fake James on the head,
25:14making it explode into slime. In the sketchbook Nathan asks the teens to punch him, which effectively
25:19sends him back into his body. After Harold sends him back, the group comes up with a plan,
25:23Nathan must recover his body long enough to write their escape on the scrapbook. Nathan gets punched again
25:28and discovers he's been following Nora, but when he tries to talk to her Harold stops him and sends
25:32him back again. During the next try Nathan manages to grab the scrapbook and Harold fights him for
25:37control, so they accidentally throw the scrapbook into a puddle. The house in the book starts melting
25:41and the teens are sent to different pages. When they reach the basement, they find Harold's parents
25:46trapped there too. Nathan continues to fight Harold over the body and after lots of struggle,
25:50Nathan manages to win. He draws an exit on the page and the teenagers can finally leave both the
25:55scrapbook and the real house. Unfortunately Nathan is sent back to the illusion when Harold regains
25:59control. Eventually Nora makes it to a cabin in the mountains and seals Slappy's mouth with tape
26:04to shut him up. When the teens arrive at the mountains too they're shocked to find Nathan's car
26:08in the middle of the road and footprints on the snow. Lucas, Isaiah, and Margot follow the footprints
26:13while James and Isabella stay in the car. Harold makes it to the cabin and sees Nora leaving,
26:18so he starts chasing her. She immediately gets in her car and Harold begins breaking the windows.
26:22Nora retaliates by speeding up and turning the car to throw him off. After this trick her car won't
26:27move so she must continue on foot. Harold wants to follow her and ignores the pain in his injured
26:32leg to get moving. The chase continues through the woods and Nora hides behind a tree. When she can't
26:37see or hear Harold anymore she tries to leave, only for Harold to jump on her from his hiding spot.
26:42He tries to grab the bag so Nora kicks him off to run again. By the road, James and Isabella
26:47are
26:47surprised to see Eliza arrive with Victoria, Ben, and his wife. They agree to work together
26:52and join the search. Minutes later it starts to snow. Nora can hear Lucas calling for her and
26:57runs to his side, only to discover it's Harold imitating her son's voice. They fight over the
27:02bag again and this time Harold wins it while Nora falls down a ravine. Harold puts back the missing
27:06eye and removes the tape so Slappy can be active again. Meanwhile Lucas' team is having trouble
27:11moving since the snow makes it hard to see and they don't notice Isaiah is missing until it's too late.
27:15He's fallen off the edge of a cliff and is holding on to some roots. Lucas and Margot search for
27:20him
27:20and find an unconscious Nora instead. The bag is empty and Harold and Slappy aren't anywhere to be
27:25seen. At the cliff, Isaiah gathers enough strength to start climbing, only to find Slappy and Harold
27:30waiting for him. Harold grabs a rock to kill the teen but Lucas stops him. Nora also comes to remind
27:35Harold this isn't who he really is, but Slappy keeps manipulating him with his own sweet words.
27:40As the rest of the parents and teens arrive, Margot calls Harold hairbeer like his parents did and
27:44tells him they're waiting in the scrapbook world. Hearing the nickname makes Harold hesitate,
27:48so all the adults take the chance to apologize. Slappy tries dismissing them but this time Harold
27:53ignores him and rescues Isaiah. Then he throws Slappy into the cliff, which forces Harold's spirit
27:58to finally leave Nathan's body. Harold touches Sarah as a final goodbye and his appearance turns normal
28:03again. His parents' ghosts appear nearby and welcome him so they can finally move on. Nathan returns to his
28:09body and the adults are glad it's finally over. However Slappy is broken but still alive at the bottom of
28:13the
28:14cliff. Six months later Nathan decides to write a book about his adventure using fake names.
28:19Isaiah's arm is better so he's back on training, and Colin and Nora are now engaged. Lucas is dating
28:24Margot, who is worried because Sarah is planning to move back to the city. One day the teens decide
28:29to go on a road trip to Seattle. Nathan wants to come along but at that moment he receives a
28:33call from
28:33New York. A book agent is interested in his book and it may even become a series, but first he
28:38needs to
28:38change the ending. Nathan happily takes the deal, but now he's stuck in his house trying to think of
28:43a better ending. After picking up his dinner from a restaurant, Nathan drives home while listening to
28:47a podcast about creative writing that mentions having a twist. At the same time he sees the
28:52mountain signs and he remembers all that happened with Slappy, which gives him an idea. Nathan grabs a
28:56flashlight and searches the area until he finds the puppet pieces. In the morning Nathan returns home and
29:01dumps all the pieces on the floor. He takes the car from Slappy's pocket and reads the strange words,
29:06but nothing happens. Nathan's ready to give up when suddenly the pieces start moving to reassemble
29:10the puppet. As Slappy brings Nathan's embalmed childhood dog back to life, he promises to give
29:15Nathan the best ending. In Seattle Margot keeps trying to talk to Lucas about their relationship,
29:20since she's considering moving here with her mother. Lucas doesn't want to come with her since
29:24he loves their little hometown, meaning they have no choice but to break up. After Lucas decides to go
29:29home alone, Margot tries texting him but he ignores her. That night Nathan follows his dog to the
29:33forest and notices she's turning demoniac. Then he starts digging to retrieve a coffin that he brings
29:38home. Slappy convinces him to open it and take the card hidden inside. Nathan does so and when he
29:43reads the spell, he has a vision of a building burning. Suddenly a dark spirit comes out of the
29:48puppet and possesses the rotten body in the coffin. The skeleton begins healing his body to be the great
29:52magician Kandu. At that moment Ben enters the house and Kandu transforms him into a puppet before
29:57leaving with the dog. In 1879 Lieutenant Rupert is fighting in a war and gets shot by an enemy soldier.
30:03Then an explosion sends him flying into a concealed cave. Rupert notices a trail of gunpowder and lights
30:08it up to discover a wall covered with spells. A particular one starts glowing so he reads it aloud
30:13and his wound immediately heals. Six years later in New York Rupert has become a famous magician under
30:18the name of Kandu. People think he uses tricks but he actually uses the real spells from the cave.
30:23One day he visits Franz the puppeteer and shows off a spell by making a dull move without touching it.
30:28Then Kandu asks Franz to build something for him in exchange for acting in his carnival.
30:31A year later Franz discovers that Kandu is transforming his audience into puppets for
30:36some ritual. It's too late to cancel the deal, so he finishes the puppet that would become Slappy.
30:41When he brings it to the magician in a suitcase, Franz begins reciting a spell he took from his
30:45friend and Kandu stabs him to stop him. However it's too late and the spell takes effect by sealing
30:50Kandu's soul inside Slappy. In the present Lucas makes it home and is shocked to find his father waiting.
30:55He explains he pretended to die because he was with the witness protection program.
30:59Nora comes in to confirm the story and Lucas rushes to reunite with his dad.
31:03However this turns out to be Kandu in disguise, who transforms Lucas into a puppet just like he did
31:08with Nora. When the other teens come back, Isaiah enters his home and Ben introduces him to a
31:13Washington University scout, who offers him a full football scholarship. Isaiah reluctantly agrees to
31:18sign but senses something is wrong. In the meantime James finds Sam making a grand gesture to invite him to
31:23prom. At the same time Margot discovers her parents have made up and want to live together as a family.
31:28When she's about to hug them, Isaiah bursts in and tells her it's not real. A closer look reveals Kandu
31:33is her mother and a puppet her father. The duo immediately runs out of the house and are picked
31:37up by James and Isabella, who were also almost tricked by puppets. The group goes to the cafe to
31:42look for Lucas and they see him leaving on his bike. They follow him across town until they make it
31:46to the
31:46school, where Lucas removes his helmet to confirm he's a puppet too. When he points at the car, all of
31:52the
31:52teens' parents show up to kidnap them. The entire town is going to the school's football field,
31:56where Kandu has set up tents and the tall building from the visions. The teens are left in a tent
32:01with
32:01Nathan, who explains Kandu is controlling every person in town by fulfilling their greatest wish.
32:06Then Kandu shows up and confirms he was manipulating Harold through Slappy's body all along. Using his
32:11magic, he shows them the flashback of the war in the cave. Through the years he's mastered all the spells
32:16on
32:16the wall except one, the ritual of the spire. The carving on the wall shows a thousand humans being burnt
32:21to death in exchange for freeing all the horrors of the world, which is Kandu's plan. On his way out,
32:26he orders Nathan's dog to kill the teens. Feeling guilty, Nathan grabs a quill and repeatedly stabs
32:31the dog to kill her. Then he apologizes to the teens, saying he didn't think Kandu would take things
32:36so far. Nathan tells them his great-great-grandfather was Franz but he has no idea how the man stopped
32:41Kandu last
32:42time. The only option they have is to revive Franz. Minutes later when Kandu is about to ignite the
32:47spire with all the people, he's shocked to find Franz behind him. The teens ask Franz to stop Kandu,
32:52but instead Franz announces he finally sees his friend's vision and grabs the torch to start the
32:57fire himself. Kandu stares at the screaming people but suddenly his face transforms into a puppet.
33:02It turns out Nathan has been pretending to be Franz with an illusion by using the spells from the magic
33:06book. As the teens discuss how to proceed, Kandu returns to normal because that spell doesn't work on
33:11him. Isaiah threatens to burn the spell book however Kandu has already memorized them all.
33:16He simply takes the torch from Isaiah's hand and begins reciting a spell that summons an earthquake.
33:20Dark energy comes out of the ground to capture them but when Isaiah hits it with the spell book,
33:25he makes it back off. He then frees Margo and gives her the book so she can free the others
33:29while
33:29he runs to stop Kandu. While Kandu and Isaiah fight on the ground, Margo checks the magic list and
33:34finds a reversal spell. She recites it and Kandu begins transforming back into Rupert, including the
33:40bullet wound. The spirits of soldiers come out of the ground to drag him down and a furious Rupert
33:44opens fire, intending to kill Margo. Isaiah jumps in the middle and gets shot instead. The spirits
33:49throw Rupert into hell and absorb all the magic from the puppets on the spire, who are now going
33:53back to normal. Everyone rushes to Isaiah's side, desperate to help. Sometime later at the hospital
33:59the doctor informs the group that Isaiah won't make it, so they have a few moments to say goodbye.
34:03Margo goes in first and cries as she shares a few words of affection. When the monitors start to flatline,
34:08she pulls out the spellbook and says a few words that bring Isaiah back to life.
34:13Meanwhile Nathan goes to the bathroom and is shocked to see Kandu in the mirror.
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