A group of friends—Kris, Colt, Troy, Evan, Ehren, Brodie, and Aurora—discover a locket hanging on the remains of a
fire tower, which Troy pockets. Moments later, the corpse of a serial killer, identified as Johnny, rises from the ground. Enraged, he roams the woods in search of the locket and hears an argument between a hunter and a park ranger. Johnny enters the hunter's house, where he sees a necklace that he mistakes for his locket, triggering a brief memory of his father. The homeowner returns and runs away at the sight of Johnny, but is caught and killed. Johnny approaches the group sitting around a campfire, drawn to their location by the sound of gunfire they made. Ehren recounts the legend of Johnny. Decades prior, Johnny, the developmentally delayed son of a local merchant, fell to his death from the firetower in a prank gone wrong. Despite attempts to cover it up, his father discovers the truth and is killed confronting one of the individuals involved. Subsequent murders were attributed to his vengeful spirit. Later that night, Ehren is killed by Johnny. He uses Ehren's corpse to break into and ransack a nearby
park ranger office for weapons and an antique
firefighter mask. The next day, Johnny kills Brodie in the water near a lake dock, and Aurora at an overlook. Later, Troy, Colt, Kris, and Evan argue about the circumstances of their friends' disappearances. As the argument escalates, Troy throws the car keys into the woods, which Johnny recovers. Colt walks into the woods to try to retrieve them, but instead finds Johnny's dropped axe. Colt picks up the axe and returns to the others, showing it to them while they continue arguing about the other strange things they've seen. While playing with the keychain, Johnny hears Troy make disparaging remarks toward Colt's deceased father. Enraged, he walks towards the group just as Colt and Kris ride off towards the
range station, and injures Troy with the axe. While inside the cabin, Evan notices this encounter, prompting him to exit and shoot Johnny before he can kill Troy. The pair run into the woods, but are both soon killed after Johnny regains consciousness and begins chasing them. After Colt and Kris arrive at the ranger station, a park ranger investigating the scene notices the locket around Kris's neck and explains that the locket is what keeps Johnny's soul at rest. At the same time, Johnny emerges from the woods and attacks the group and kills the park ranger with a gas-powdered log splitter while Colt and Kris escape. The two return to the firetower and attempt to trap Johnny, but Colt is killed in the process. Kris - too shocked to implement the plan - leaves the locket hanging on a gas canister and flees into the woods. Kris injures her leg and limps to a nearby road where a woman picks her up. The woman notices Kris' injury and insists on stopping to apply a
tourniquet. A panicked Kris pleads with her to keep driving, waiting for Johnny to appear from the nearby woods, but he does not. Back at the firetower, the gas canister is shown, missing Johnny's locket. ==Cast==