Character Relationship Map: Scare Package

Characters

• Chad Buckley (played by Jeremy King) — protagonist

  Horror aficionado and struggling video store owner who hosts the anthology.

• Sam (played by Byron Brown) — protagonist

  Obnoxious regular customer desperate to work at the store and survive the traps.

• Hawn (played by Hawn Tran) — supporting

  Video store regular and sequel guest who navigates the deadly traps.

• Mike Myers (played by Jon Michael Simpson) — supporting

  Store regular and funeral guest who relies on horror tropes to survive.

• Hannah (played by Luxy Banner) — supporting

  Funeral attendee who must solve puzzles to escape the deadly traps.

• Marked Man (played by Aaron D. Alexander) — minor

  Antagonist figure in one of the anthology's short horror films.

• Wife (played by Jocelyn DeBoer) — minor

  Character featured in one of the anthology's horror short films.

• Franchesca (played by Toni Trucks) — supporting

  Video store regular and short film character in the anthology.

• Husband (played by Noah Segan) — supporting

  Video store patron navigating the anthology's horror shorts.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Husband → Wife (Family Husband And Wife) — Their marriage is strained by arguments about responsibility, masculinity, and family life.

  The Husband argues with his wife about his lack of effort toward the family and later returns home to a party she has organized.

• Chad Buckley → Hawn (Professional Employer And Employee) — Chad initially acts as Hawn's employer and trainer before Hawn betrays him.

  Hawn applies for the store position and Chad instantly hires Hawn. Chad later trains Hawn at the video store.

• Chad Buckley → Sam (Professional Employer Applicant) — Sam wants to work for Chad, while Chad repeatedly refuses to employ him.

  Sam repeatedly tries to persuade Chad to hire him, but Chad rejects his latest employment request at the video store.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Mike Myers → Hannah (Conflict Antagonist And Victim) — Mike's attempted horror setup places Hannah in immediate danger.

  Mike cuts the power to the house where Hannah is babysitting, and Hannah attacks him with wire cutters before accidentally falling onto them.

• Marked Man → Franchesca (Conflict Body Possessor) — The Marked Man invades Franchesca's body and becomes her supernatural opponent.

  The Marked Man tells Franchesca that he has her body, and they physically fight over control of it.

• Chad Buckley → Mike Myers (Social Driver And Hitchhiker) — Chad gives Mike transportation and listens to his horror-movie pitch.

  After the opening short, Mike is shown describing the short as a horror movie pitch to Chad, who picked him up as a hitchhiker.

Story Analysis

An anthology of horror stories is framed by a video-store narrative that gradually becomes a self-aware survival horror film.

Plot Progression

1. Horror Behind the Counter — Mike's cold open establishes the anthology's self-aware horror logic. Chad opens his struggling video store, rejects Sam, and hires Hawn.
2. Stories Through Rentals — The store becomes a gateway for multiple short horror stories. The Husband's marital frustration leads him toward M.I.S.T.E.R. and a violent werewolf encounter.
3. The Employee's Betrayal — Hawn's employment is exposed as part of a scientific experiment beneath the store. Chad is imprisoned and recognizes the horror stereotypes surrounding him.
4. The Killer's Underground Escape — The experimental killer escapes control, forcing Chad and the prisoners through a dangerous facility. Security systems obstruct their route to freedom, and Chad is killed.
5. The Body That Came Back — The Marked Man returns as smoke and confronts Franchesca over possession of her body. Franchesca defeats him but leaves under an ominous pursuit.