Cut to the present where there's a $25,000 reward to whoever can reopen the theater. Why? I don't know. A local theater owner buys the building and sends his three best teenage workers to fix it up. The theater has been closed for decades so it makes no sense that three teens could clean it and get it up to code.
One of the girls looks like Tommy Shaw from Styx. Her hair is like a big triangle on her head that looks worse and worse as the movie goes on.
Strange things start happening while they're doing the restoration. Seems the new owner has neglected to tell the teens about the previous deaths and the rumored haunting of the theater. A slow old man, who I guess is the spirit of the 1920s usher - so why has he aged? - takes up where he left off.
There is some humor in unexpected places, and things that are supposed to be funny usually fall flat. It's not much of a slasher, especially since the killer is an old man who can't move very fast. Even though it's not very good, I kind of liked it, but I can't figure out why. Mary Woronov plays the owners assistant.
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