Christopher Cushing is an elderly British stage actor who is now retired and living in Wyrdham. These days, he is most remembered for playing the character "Het-Sem-Peckinpah" in a series of cheesy, low-budget monster movies. Het-Sem is a resurrected Egyptian mummy who fights crime, and Cushing doesn't really enjoy the role; he only accepted it because he needed the alimony money. But somebody out there loves these movies a little too much, since a serial killer is now pretending to be Chiroptera, Het-Sem's vampire arch-nemesis. This unidentified killer has left several corpses drained of blood in his wake, and Christopher Cushing is PISSED. So the old man puts on his mummy costume from the movies, turns his entire house into a do-it-yourself death trap, then lures the killer to his home by shining his "Ankh-Signal" from the back yard on Halloween. The killer takes this bait, and Cushing's final performance as "Het-Sem-Peckinpah" begins.
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