In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

New in town, a young woman receives strange phone calls from a voice telling her she is going to die. When she meets the source of the voice, she is convinced that the calls were a prank until she is proven wrong in the middle of the night.

A man moving to San Francisco finds himself dragged into conversation with his neighbor on the plane, a woman who is fleeing New Jersey after her affair with her sister's husband.

A young and beautiful girl left alone at home for a summer weekend is approached at her home by a much older stranger who menacingly demands she go with him on a joy ride.

An extended visit from a relative leaves a young boy terrified in his own home.

An adolescent girl jumps out of the fire and into the frying pan when she escapes bullies by entering the lorry of a mysterious man who seeks to play games with her.

At a going-away party for a friend on an isolated mountaintop, a man must avoid a mysterious man who is trying to kill all the guests.

A woman has dinner with her husband and stepchildren and is interrupted by a stranger at the door, which prompts her to reminiscence about her past—the houses, love, and drama.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

While hiking with his wife and mother-in-law, a man stumbles upon the wrong guys.