In briarville, missori an ancient evil buried by his ancestors gets released accidentally while helping 3 kids construct the perfect haunted house now the ridiculous humorous idiot known as Ernest p worroll seeks help from the scariest woman in town to stop the troll and his plans to reconstruct his army by turning the kids of the town into little wooden dolls it's up to Ernest to finish what his ancestors couldn't and that's defeat the evil of the troll forever—Mike Garrett