在一场意外中，深夜芭芭拉（朱迪思·欧迪 Judith O'Dea 饰）和哥哥遭到了丧尸的袭击，深夜这些活死人个性凶残样貌可怖，在它们的脑袋里，只装了一件事情，那就是“吃”。受伤的哥哥不幸感染了病毒成为了丧尸中的一员，悲痛和恐惧之中，芭芭拉逃进了一间民宅内，在那里，她遇见了同样在此躲避丧尸的本（杜安·琼斯 Duane Jones 饰）。藏在这间屋子里的并不止芭芭拉和本两人，汤姆（Keith Wayne 饰）、朱迪（Judith Ridley 饰）、哈里（Karl Hardman 饰）和海伦（Kyra Schon 饰）等人纷纷加入了避难的队伍，面对屋外越来越多的丧尸，众人知道，如果不能主动出击，那么只有死路一条。搜集仅有的武器，封锁门窗，在这一危急时刻，每一个人都在为了生存而战斗着。
回复 :为了躲避黑帮老大的威胁，几名笨手笨脚的小弟联合起来决定跟随携款而逃的好友去寻找一个隐藏的宝藏。他们来到了目的地，然而到了夜晚才发现原来那里是一个鬼城。
回复 :Explores a doomed relationship on its final day
回复 :Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.
