在一座古老的阴森恐怖的坟场中，经常发生一些莫名其妙的惨案，令人百思不得其解。这天，麦克（A.麦克•鲍德温_A. Michael Baldwin 饰）最好的朋友不幸也在坟场中遇害了。伤心欲绝的麦克发誓一定要为朋友报仇，于是他决定深夜前往坟场找出朋友遇害的秘密。于是这天夜里，麦克偷偷潜进了坟场。半夜过后，麦克看到了令人毛骨悚然的一幕，这个古老的坟场里竟然居住着大量的丧尸，他们都以食人为乐！惊慌不已的麦克甚至以为自己看了幻象！Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.