A struggling, unlucky reporter, Raymond Hughson, comes up with the idea of spending a night in a wax-figure museum among exhibits of serial killers in order to later make a unique report about it. The manager gives Hughson the go-ahead and leaves him alone among the grim wax statues. When a coffin-like silence falls in the hall, it starts to seem to Hughson that the figures move when you’re not looking at them…