The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger sister.
When a group of escaped convicts come across and old looking inn they decide to hide out there. But the guests at this inn get a new kind of room service when a mysterious potion summons a demon and causes a bloodthirsty zombies to rise from their graves in search of live prey.