After barely surviving his ordeal in the hilltop mansion, Jimmy Larson returns to his vehicle only to discover his companion Josephine Taylor has vanished without a trace—leaving only blood-stained pavement and a single ticket stub pointing toward the Puppet Theater. Desperate to find her, he makes his way on foot to the decrepit venue, where unsettling staff members and patrons greet him with an uncanny transformation: they've become living puppets themselves. To progress deeper into the theater's mysteries, Jimmy must navigate increasingly bizarre obstacles, including a cryptic card player in a feline mask who refuses passage unless he can triumph in a high-stakes game.