Den unge, amerikanske balletdanserinde Susie flytter til Berlin i 1970'erne for at danse i et berømt kompagni. Kort forinden er en aldrende psykolog, dr. Klemperer, blevet opsøgt af en pige fra samme ballettrup, som hævder, at der er okkulte kræfter løs på danseskolen. Pigen er siden forsvundet under mystiske omstændigheder, og det mørke, som huserer på skolen, truer nu også med at opsluge Suzy.
En lille gruppe af militært personale og nogle overlevende bor i en underjordisk bunker, mens de forsøger at finde en kur i en verden, der er overtaget af zombier.
De levende døde hærger nu over hele kloden, og kun en lille gruppe af mennesker er sluppet i sikkerhed i en forladt missilsilo. Gruppen består af soldater og videnskabsmænd, der leder efter andre overlevende. Samtidig prøver de at finde et middel til at få kontrol over de kødædende zombier. Men sammenholdet begynder at slå revner, og situationen, der efterhånden bliver mere og mere anspændt, fører til en åben konfrontation mellem videnskabsmændene og den psykotiske officer. Disse indre konflikter underminerer sikkerheden i tilflugtsstedet, og til sidst oversvømmer de levende døde også menneskehedens sidste bastion...
Sam vågner op i sin lejlighed dagen efter en vild fest. Men han er nu helt alene, og de levende døde har invaderet gaderne i Paris. Han vælger derfor at barrikadere sig i bygningen for at overleve. Men er han virkelig den eneste overlevende?
Fem skumle episoder fra livets mørke, okkulte og hyggelige sider. En far vender tilbage fra de døde for at konfrontere datteren, der myrdede ham. En mystisk meteor lander i en landmands have, og en hanrej begraver konen og hendes elsker op til halsen i sand. Derudover bor der et skummelt væsen under trappen på gymnasiet, og en rigmand får sig et alvorligt problem med kakerlakker.
A group of teenagers who, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up releasing a horde of blood thirsty zombies.
Da fader Thomas hænger sig i et træ på Dunwich-kirkegården begår han en utilgivelig dødssynd. Langt derfra er Mary Woodhouse i dyb trance. Det unge medium ser præstens død som et varsel og spår, at jorden snart vil udspy horder af de levende døde. Præstens død har åbnet en port til det hinsides, og den må absolut lukkes inden Alle Helgens Dag få dage senere, da alle Helvedes onde ånder ellers vil blive sluppet løs...
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dume, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus and bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.
A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Four strippers take a vacation and wind up at a Spanish resort complex that, despite the hotel receptionist's claims of it being fully booked, appears to be completely empty. After one of the girls mysteriously vanishes and another ends up dead in the pool, both accompanied by the tolling bell from a nearby monastery, Candy and Caty must try to solve the mystery that seems to involve the Spanish Inquisition.
Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Desperately grasping for some semblance of normalcy in a post-apocalyptic existence, a small island of people face an unimaginable terror that threatens everything it means to be human.
An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.