Bogdanovich weaves together two separate plot lines that merge in the finale confrontation scene. In one story line Orlok disappoints sleazy low-budget producer Marshall Smith (Monty Landis) and ambitious young unrecognized director Sammy Michaels (Peter Bogdanovich) by telling the Hollywood people he’s quitting films, after making three cheapies for them, to go back to London for his retirement. Orlok, without reading the script Sammy gave him, refuses to make another picture. This also disappoints Orlok’s Chinese-American secretary Jenny (Nancy Hsueh), who is smitten with Sammy and wants to remain in the States to continue the budding romance. Orlok’s press agent (Arthur Peterson) arranges for one last publicity appearance for Orlok at a drive-in. In the second story, clean-cut Vietnam vet gun collector Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly), an ordinary insurance man who lives with his cheery wife Ilene and religiously devout parents, one morning just murders his wife, mother and delivery boy (who was at the wrong place at the wrong time); then he goes on the roof of an industrial gas site to shoot at cars on the freeway. After killing a few people, he dodges the cops by ducking into the same drive-in where Orlok appears for his publicity gig and the psychopath starts randomly mowing down the drive-in patrons with his high-powered rifle from the drive-in tower. With Karloff on the screen in The Terror, the Karloff playing Orlok climbs the stairs to the tower and confronts the sniper (confused at seeing two Karloffs and not sure which one is real) and gets him to surrender to the cops.