Based on the Michael McDowell novel 'Cold Moon Over Babylon'. McDowell is also the author of 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.
 
In a sleepy southern town, a young girl disappears but all hopes of finding her alive are soon shattered by the discovery of a body in the river. But the end of the search is just the beginning of a waking nightmare.
 
Traffic lights blink an eerie warning, a ghostly visage prowls in the streets, and graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. Beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form to seek a terrible vengeance...