The story focuses on a theatre troupe Val,Jeff,Anya,Paul,Terry,Roy And Emmerson led by Alan (Alan Ormsby)And Anya (Anya Ormsby). He is a mean-spirited director, who travels with his girlfriend Anya and the others by boat to a small island for buried criminals to have a night of fun and games Six friends dig up a corpse named Orville They use it in a satanic ritual to make the dead rise from their graves. Once on the island Alan tells his group--he calls them his "children"--numerous stories relating to the island's history and buried inhabitants. At midnight using a grimoire, Alan begins a séance to raise the dead with a book he suppossedly bought after digging up the body of a man named Orville Dunworth (Seth Sklarey). Though the original intent of the ritual may have been solely as a jok