- Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, George Buza, Joshua Close, Wes Craven, Laura DeCarteret,
Alexandria DeFabiis, Joe Dinicol, Stephen King, Amy Ciupak Lalonde
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods
making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have
started returning to life. Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young
filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety
and security they know: their homes. But, there is no escape from the crisis, nor
any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon is fractured as the plague
of the living dead begins to spread. Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense,
first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends
die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the
way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos. The
government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't. Technology
fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what
remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on
no one but themselves to stay alive. They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion,
but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout
it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations--if
any survive.
