Maya stumbled backward. Leo grabbed the tape. The moment his skin touched it, the film glitched into a ’80s slasher—and the killer waved at him.

The movie started: a black-and-white noir. The detective on screen looked up. Directly at Maya.

In a dying Midwest town, the last surviving video store—The Big Heap—holds a legendary “junk pile” of unlabeled VHS tapes. When two broke film students discover the pile contains movies that change depending on who watches them, they trigger a battle against a corporate streamer that wants to erase every physical copy forever.

“Pick one,” Krall said. “But the Heap chooses you. Not the other way around.”

“The pile?” Leo asked.