Family adventure loosely based on the novel by Jack London. Christopher Lloyd stars as Bill Hale, a recently widowed man living in Montana who has his nine-year-old granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) to stay for several weeks while her parents go abroad. When Ryann finds a wounded wild dog on the back porch one night, she names him 'Buck' and dreams of taking him back to the city as a pet. But her grandfather knows that the animal will eventually have to return to the wild, and to help her understand this he starts reading Jack London's 'Call of the Wild' aloud to her each night. However, Ryann has hatched a plan of her own, and enlists the help of a local boy to train Buck up as a sled dog champion.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directs this sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. 66 years after the town of Texarkana was hit by a series of unexplained murders by a suspect known only as The Phantom, the small town is having its annual drive-in screening of the film 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'. While watching the film, teenagers Jami (Addison Timlin) and Corey (Spencer Treat Clark) realise they could be having more fun on their own. As they drive to a secluded area and start to get intimate, Jami spots a mysterious figure lurking outside the car window. After witnessing Corey's brutal murder, Jami recounts her story to the town's police who fear they have a copycat murderer on their hands. Is it simply an impressionable person admiring the work of The Phantom or could there be more to this reappearance of the infamous killer?