Three kids on a hunt to collect jack-o-lanterns are also trick or treating (same kids visiting Steven): Sara (Isabelle Deluce), dressed as an alien, Chip (Alberto Ghisi), a pirate, and the leader of the group, Macy (Britt McKillip) dressed as an angel. They stop at Mrs. Henderson's house, ring the door bell, and in unison say trick or treat.
Mrs. Henderson: [screams and laughs looking very tipsy with a house party behind her] Aren't you guys adorable?
Macy: Thanks, Mrs. Henderson. That's a great costume.
Mrs. Henderson: I know.
Mrs. Henderson gives them a spin in her kitty outfit.
Mrs. Henderson: Isn't it just purr-fect? You want a drink or something? [whispers] It'll be our little secret.
Sara: [smiles] Sure.
Macy: No, thanks. But, um...
Mrs. Henderson: All right, fine. I'll see what I got for you.
Mrs. Henderson walks away leaving the door open.
Macy: Actually, Mrs. Henderson, we were sort of wondering if you might...
Coach Taylor: [the kids look in and see in the distance a couple in costume mimicking sex] Oh yeah!
Macy: If you might...
Chip: [Chip raises his pirate eye patch] Holy shit.
Macy: ...Have a jack-o'-lantern... we could borrow.
Mrs. Henderson: Here you go. Now, be safe... and watch out for monsters.
Sara: [talking along the street] I don't even know what that was.
Chip: Coach Taylor was in a hot-dog costume butt-fucking a pig. I think. And then...
Macy: Chip, let's just not.
The kids continue their quest for jack-o-lanterns and are joined by Schrader (Jean-Luc Bilodeau).
Schrader: Trick or treat.
Macy: What'd you find? . . . That's it?
Schrader: Sorry, but some asshole went down the street smashing all of them. But we have three. Isn't this enough?
Macy: Almost.
They stop at the home of a peer named Rhonda (Samm Todd), dressed as a witch, whose yard is decorated with dozens of jack-o-lanterns.
Schrader: Macy, why didn't we just start here?
Macy: I didn't know she'd do this.
Sara: This is weird.
Chip: [points] Is that Rhonda the retard?
Macy: She's not a retard. She's an idiot savant.
Sara: Here she comes.
Macy: You're on Schrader.
The rest of the kids walk ahead.
Schrader: Did you carve all of these yourself?
Rhonda: Yeah. Made my costume too. Like it?
Schrader: [smiles] I do. I'm Schrader.
Rhonda: [smiles] Rhonda.
Macy leads them onward while Rhonda talks briefly with Chip.
Chip: You must really like Halloween.
Rhonda: You mean Samhain?
Chip: What?
Rhonda: Samhain, also known as All Hallows' Eve, also known as Halloween. Pre-dating Christianity, the Celtic holiday was celebrated on the one night between autumn and winter when the barrier between the living and the dead was thinnest and often involved rituals that included human sacrifice.
Awkward silence.
Rhonda: I like your eye patch.
Chip: Huh.
They arrive at an abandoned rock quarry.
Schrader: Great, a rock quarry. Nice way to celebrate Halloween, Macy.
Chip: Why are we here?
Macy: To pay our respects to the dead.
Chip: What happened? Did somebody die here?
Sara: Wait. Is this where - ? It is, isn't it? This is where that school...
Macy: Shut up, Sara.
Chip: The Halloween School Bus Massacre.
Macy: Just don't call it that.
Schrader: What's she talking about?
Sara: It's this awesome town legend. There's this bus full of...
Macy: Jesus, will you shut up and let me tell the damn story?
Rhonda: You said a bad word.
Macy rolls her eyes at Rhonda before telling the story.
Macy: It happened 30 years ago on a late Halloween afternoon. . . .
Macy: [narrating the flashback] A school bus was on its usual route. But this wasn't your typical school bus and they weren't your typical kids. There were eight of them and they were different. Troubled. Disturbed. Every day, parents put their dirty secrets on this bus to be driven to a school miles out of town.
We see the kids each in their creepy Halloween masks and costumes.
Vampire Kid: [we see the vampire kid (Richard Harmon) in his seat counting the addresses outside] 3260. 3264. 3266.
Macy: [continuing to narrate] But that day... the driver took a different route.
Vampire Kid: Wrong way. Wrong way. Wrong way.
Macy: And instead of taking the students home the bus driver takes a different direction.
As the driver takes them to a "new destination," they pass by Sam, poking a dead crow.
Macy: The bus driver took them to an abandoned rock quarry. This rock quarry. What the kids didn't know is that, over the years, their parents had become exhausted, and embarrassed. And they were willing to do anything to ease their burden. So one day, the parents approached the bus driver and made him an offer. With the money collected together, they asked him to do the unthinkable. It almost worked perfectly.
Vampire Kid: Wrong way. Wrong way. Home. Home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. Home. Home. Home. Home. I wanna go home. Home.
The bus driver (Gerald Paetz) quiets the kids and begins to walk down the bus checking that each chained down kid is correct, passing them each a piece of candy.
While the driver is double checking the restraints on the kids, the Vampire Kid is able to free himself and hijack the bus. Disturbed and confused as he is, the boy puts the bus in gear and drives it over the edge of the cliffside into the lake before the driver can stop him.
Macy: [narrating] The driver was never heard from again. As for the bus, some say it sank so deep that it couldn't be found. Others say the town just didn't want it to be found. For all we know, it's still down there and so are those kids.
Silence as the kids look down into the rock quarry.
Sara: You are so full of shit.
Macy: Really? Well, then I guess you won't mind being first.
Sara: First what?
Macy: Eight victims, eight jack-o'-lanterns, each one representing a lost soul. So we're going to leave them by the side of the lake as an offering to those who died.
Chip: Oh.
They walk to a rickety elevator and Schrader notices the pumpkin Rhonda is holding.
Schrader: Is that one of yours?
Rhonda: Yes.
Schrader: It's very pretty.
Rhonda: Thank you.
Macy, Sara, and Schrader get in with their pumpkins to go down to the lake, but shuts the door, leaving Chip and Rhonda out.
Macy: It can only hold 3 safely. I'll send the keys back up. You guys bring the rest.
Chip: Uh.... Okay.
Chip and Rhonda wait for the elevator to come back for them when they hear distant howling.
Rhonda: [whispers] Werewolves.
Chip: Very funny.
The elevator arrives. Chip and Rhonda ride down while listening to the other kids' conversation. They can also see their lit pumpkins.
Macy: That bus is around here somewhere. I think it's over here.
Schrader: Over where? I can't see shit in this fog. Think I found a dead retard.
Sara: That's me asshole.
Schrader: Like I said.
Macy: Both of you shut up and keep looking.
Schrader: There's something moving by that rock.
Macy: I can't see.
Sara: Jesus, what is that? [screams] Help me!
Chip and Rhonda hear the panicked cries and screams of the other three and watch as the lights of their jack-o-lanterns go out in the mist.
Macy: Sara! Where's Sara? Run!
Schrader: There's nowhere to go!
Chip: [whimpering] Up! I wanna go back up! . . . . . Macy? Schrader? Sara?
Rhonda cautiously exits the elevator, then turns to Chip, who has no intention of leaving the elevator.
Rhonda: Aren't you coming? . . . . . Okay, stay here. Don't let the candles go out and they'll protect you, okay?
Rhonda goes to investigate. Walking through the mist, she eventually comes to the wreckage of the half submerged school bus and sees the masks of the others floating in the water.
She is suddenly attacked by two water-drenched figures covered in chains and runs to see a third disemboweling Chip. As they chase her, Rhonda drops her glasses before tripping and hitting her head on a rock, blacking out.
When she comes to, she sees the figures standing over her and screams in fear. Rhonda crawls away hurriedly, but stops when one of them calls her name. They remove their masks, revealing Schrader, Macy, and Sara.
Macy: And it was all going so well.
Rhonda: [sobbing, muttering] You're all dead!
Schrader: Rhonda, calm down. It was all just a trick. Look, none of this is real. It was just a trick. A bad joke.
Macy: I'd say it was a pretty good one.
Schrader: Shut up.
Rhonda whimpering and touching her head injury.
Schrader: Here, let me see. Does it hurt?
Rhonda sobs.
Schrader: Go pack everything up. We're leaving.
Macy: Says who?
Schrader: Macy, she's scared out of her mind. What else do you want?
Macy: Let's go.
Chip: This one's still lit.
Macy is unremorseful and kicks a still lit jack-o-lantern.
Chip: If this was all a trick, then how did the school bus get here?
Macy: That part's true.
Chip: What happened to the bus driver?
Macy: I don't know, Chip.
From the lake, whispers and giggles suddenly echo out of the mist.
Macy: What?
Chip: I didn't say anything.
Macy: I'm not in the mood.
Chip: It wasn't me.
Whispers and giggles continue.
Sara: What is that?
Schrader is comforting Rhonda when they hear the other kids screaming.
Macy: Schrader!
Schrader: Not again.
Macy: Over here!
Schrader: [to Rhonda] Wait here.
Sara: Help us!
Schrader goes back for the other kids when he hears screams in the distance, leaving Rhonda alone by the old gate elevator.
Macy: [runs into Schrader] Schrader!
Schrader: What the hell?
Macy: We have to go. We have to get out of here.
Schrader: Macy, calm down.
Macy: We have to go!
Schrader: Look! Macy.
Macy: Listen to me! We heard voices. There are other people here.
The kids begin to hear voices giggling.
Schrader: What is that?
Voices mumble and giggle as the kids see the eight dead school bus massacre children still bound in their chains, rise out of the lake and walking toward them from the fog, the kids scream for their life. They run for the elevator though Sara is caught by a strand of chains and dragged away.
Sara: Help me! Help me!
Schrader: No. Run.
The kids make it to the elevator to see Rhonda locked inside with the rest of the jack-o-lanterns, looking sullen but calm.
Schrader: Rhonda, open the gate.
Chip: Let us in, please!
Macy: Open the gate!
Schrader: Open the gate, please. Come on.
Macy: Open the gate.
Schrader: No! Rhonda, look at me.
Rhonda, seemingly in a daze, presses the button to go up and leaves the others to their fate as the ghost children surround them.
Macy: What are you doing?
Schrader: It's not a trick, it's real. . . . Come back!
Chip: Where is she going?
Schrader: Rhonda!
Chip: No, no!
Schrader: It's not a trick!
Rhonda reaches the top, exits the elevator, and hears: kids screaming, flesh tearing, groaning, more screaming, and creatures grunting.
Chip: Help me, please!
Rhonda then hears the last scream in the distance. She leaves the quarry, towing her pumpkins in her red wagon. She briefly looks at and passes Sam, standing inside a cement pipe.
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