A medium has a strange vision of a priest hanging himself... A woman who appears to be dead awakens screaming in her coffin... In the sleepy New England town of Dunwich, a girl vomits up her intestines, and a local outcast has a drill bit ploughed into his skull... These hallucinogenic, often grotesque visions punctuate the skeletal story of a reporter and a psychic racing against time to prevent hordes of rotting corpses from spewing forth from the gates of hell...