In order to impress his friends at a backyard campout, a young boy and his father struggle to avoid corny horror tropes as they narrate and develop the scariest camp fire story of all time.

But then their campout becomes a real horror scene when kids die horribly and then the father dies in front of his son, and then the son needs to run away and just barely makes it out alive after outwitting the killer by telling knock-knock jokes, only to succumb to cancer when he turns 50, right?

Seriously, though, inventing a story can’t be the only thing you want to show the audience? You need a structure to the story and events that must be overcome otherwise, what’s the point?