After the bloody experience at Windsor College, Sidney (Neve Campbell) has decided to move to California and winds up in show business – taking a job on a horror film entitled “Stab 3,” of all things. But once members of the cast and crew start getting shish kabobed by some unknown killer, she begins to wonder if she made the right choice. TV reporter Gale (Courtney Cox) and incompetent investigator Dewey (David Arquette) show up to help solve the crimes.