A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.