Professor Daniels believes he has found a way to raise the dead. He’s planning to build a legion of zombies to get revenge against the academics who shut him out for violating their code of ethics. But he needs someone with unsuppressed rage to make his experiment work.

Josh and Rana just want to get to Nashville to meet up with an old friend and reform their rockabilly band. When they take a scenic turnoff, their lives change forever.

The Professor finds what he needs in Josh.

In this harrowing tale of horror set in the 1980s, Josh has to confront the worst of himself as it comes after him in the form of a reanimated corpse bent on his destruction. Can he save the woman he loves? Or even himself?