When Luther Watts was a child, she saw a circus geek (a person who bit off a live chicken head in a circus variety show) and was deeply influenced. After serving 20 years in prison, he finally obtained parole and threatened the residents of his hometown by making chicken calls, crowing like a rooster, and attacking others. He eventually arrived at a farm run by a woman and her daughter, where he captured them and began killing her neighbors. The mother realized that she and her daughter had to flee before he killed them.