Denise Crosby is Leslie, recently widowed, has moved her family cross-country to a small California town. She has bought a local mortuary (right next to a graveyard). The Mortuary has a past and there is a lot of legend regarding the land it is built on.
As the tale goes, the first owner was a farmer who found nothing would grow on the land. It was as if the ground was cursed. Eventually, they built the mortuary and cemetery. The last owners had a dark history and a handicapped son. They hid the son away, and then when he got older, as the story goes, he killed his parents and hid beneath the cemetery.
Of course, something evil lives in the mortuary and it possesses people, turning them in zombies. It is up to her son Jonathan (Cougertown’s Dan Byrd) to stop the evil (with the help of his girlfriend) and save his little sister from the sinister force.
The plot is kind of a mess. What exactly are the evil force’s goals? Why is salt a perfect weapon? Is it some sort of slug? Why is it a terrible look digital monster? The characters are the under-developed stock character type and the film lacks any scares. This is pretty much a failure on every level.
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