The Damned Thing plot
24 years after a family trauma in which his father shot and mysteriously killed his mother, traumatized Kevin is the sheriff of the Texas town of Cloverdale. He knows that the town was violently depopulated in the 1950s by a sudden frenzy. His marriage is under strain, and he lives separately from his wife and son, who are housed in a dilapidated caravan. Kevin himself lives as a hermit in the family's house, which he has loaded with security cameras and telecommunications equipment. But autumn is upon us again, and the frenzy that Kevin has feared all his life seems to be spreading again.