Sixteen-year-old Ginger and her younger sister Bridget love making horror movies with their video camera, using up huge amounts of red paint without a second thought. One night during one of their late-night outings, Ginger is attacked by some kind of monster. Bridget helps hide the bite marks from their parents. To the sisters’ surprise, the wounds heal quickly, but when strange changes begin to happen to Ginger, the girls realize that their problems are just beginning.

Bobby Bowfinger is a cool guy! It doesn’t matter that he’s a completely clueless director and the biggest con artist in Hollywood. Bobby has decided to make a real action movie. And not just any action movie, but a blockbuster that will bring in huge box office receipts and lasting fame. What will it take to make that happen? First of all, a good script! Bobby has a script. And what a script! In it, sinister alien creatures descend to Earth in raindrops and attack people. Second, he needs to land a superstar for his movie! And not just any superstar, but Kit Ramsey himself—a true action hero. Then, to see their idol in Bobby’s movie, legions of obsessed fans will rush to the theaters, waving their fat wallets. And then he can sit back, rest on his laurels, and sign autographs. There’s just one small problem: Kit Ramsey has no intention of starring in Bobby’s film. And so the “unsinkable” Bowfinger finds a way out. He’ll film Kit Ramsey with a “hidden” camera, creating situations that fit the script.

George Miller, an unsuccessful artist, decides to take his own life on Halloween night. But after jumping off the roof, he somehow doesn’t die, even though it’s impossible to survive such a fall. After leaving the hospital, he begins to be haunted by nightmares in which he kills strangers, and it later turns out that these murders actually took place. George and his friends try to figure out what is really happening to him, and it gradually becomes clear that George isn’t always George. From time to time, his body is taken over by someone else possessing a terrifying, sinister power. Someone who brought George back from the dead for some unknown purpose.