Carver

In the fall of 2008, John Carver's older brother, Owen, goes missing. He is found dead a few days later, his body torn apart by the local wildlife. Despite reports of strange noises heard at the time of Owen's disappearance, the police rule the tragedy as "a death by misadventure." Fast forward to the summer of 2009. To cope with his brother's passing, John dives into the art of filmmaking. Armed with a camcorder and his two closest friends, Ali and Becca, he begins work on a horror movie with the hopes of winning the local Harvest Festival Short Film Contest and a prize of a thousand dollars.

In 2009, John Carver faced and defeated the creature that had taken his older brother's life. Yet, his path to recovery hasn't been easy. Now in his twenties, living alone in Pennsylvania, John navigates a maze of dead-end, low-paying jobs to scrape by, until he stumbles upon Reels, a local movie rental store on the brink of collapse. Here, he discovers a sense of belonging, forming unexpected friendships.

Join John Carver, now a new recruit of the monster-hunting organization the Order of the Octopus, as he dives deeper into the world of the supernatural. To earn his initiation Tentacle tattoo, John, alongside two fellow recruits, must embark on a mission to a small West Virginian town plagued by a recent string of grisly murders and inexplicable injuries that have left local law enforcement baffled. Racing against time to prevent more deaths, John, Harry, and Annette will have to confront an ancient evil threatening to engulf the world as we know it.