The Gravedancers

Sid Vance, Kira Hayden, and Harris McKay host a private after-hours gathering in Crescent View Cemetery after a funeral. They discover an ornate black envelope tucked behind a garland of flowers, containing a poem that urges joy and dancing on the graves and a note that seems to celebrate life in a chilling context. In their drunken state they misread the message as a wild toast to life and begin dancing among the headstones, unaware that the ritual has real consequences.

The morning after the party, Harris McKay and his wife Allison Mitchell begin experiencing unsettling visions and strange noises that gnaw at their sense of safety. Objects shift, cold drafts sweep through rooms, and the couple feels as if the cemetery’s secrets have followed them home. The disturbance to daily life hints that the graveyard ritual has literal, creeping consequences.

Kira Hayden is violently attacked by a demonic force, leaving her physically harmed and her home ransacked. The assault makes it clear that the ritual’s power can reach the living with serious, lingering violence. The trio realizes the carefree night triggered something deadly that now targets them directly.

Sid Vance is plagued by inexplicable fires that flare up with malevolent intent, filling his living room with smoke and fear. The flames seem to have a mind of their own, a tangible manifestation of the curse at work. The haunting expands from the cemetery into the visible world of the friends.

The trio enlists Vincent Cochet and Frances Culpepper to study the phenomena, and their examination reveals a grim truth: dancing on the graves summoned a powerful curse that binds the three friends to three revenants from violent pasts. Each revenant targets a member of the trio—a reverse of the carefree ritual into a personal hell. The investigators identify the axe murderer, the child pyromaniac, and the serial killer and rapist as the haunting forces behind the attacks.

Cochet and Culpepper warn that the next full moon will bring a direct confrontation with the revenants unless the curse is broken. They stress the urgency of their plan to intervene before more violence erupts. The trio must act quickly, pooling resources to avert another tragedy as the night of the moon approaches.

The group decides to disinter the remains of the tormentors and rebury them properly in an attempt to sever the curse. However, critical pieces of the deceased survive the removal, complicating the ritual and leaving open dangerous loopholes. The plan is meticulous but fragile, with time running short before the full moon.

As the night of the confrontation arrives, hauntings intensify into a siege within the haunted space, trapping the three friends and the investigators. The house shakes with unseen hands, and the air grows thick with fear as revenants close in. The tension peaks as the trio faces the living proof that the past will not stay buried.

The fire-wielding revenant claims Sid, incinerating him in a brutal display of supernatural force. Kira is slain when her body is possessed by the axe-wielding revenant pursuing Harris, marking the first clear casualties of the revenant assault. The violence makes it painfully clear that victory will require more than courage.

Frances Culpepper reveals that she had hidden the skulls of the corpses to gather undeniable evidence of paranormal activity, a risky move that provokes the spirits. Her disclosure comes too late to save her life, as she is slain with an axe to the chest. Her sacrifice underscores the danger of peering too closely into forces beyond understanding.

Harris secures the skull of the axe murderer and makes a perilous attempt to return it to its body, hoping to restore the balance and break the curse. He also orchestrates an escape for Allison by guiding her through an attic window to safety. The act of restoring the skull becomes a turning point in the escalating confrontation.

With the skull finally returned to its rightful place, the dark power reconfigures into a malevolent demonic head that tears through walls as the trio escapes to a getaway vehicle. Allison and Harris narrowly dodge the spectral threat and manage to drive away, leaving the house to its quiet, battered afterglow. The revenants vanish as if they were never truly present, ending the immediate danger but not the memory of what happened.

Allison and Harris walk through Crescent View Cemetery in the wake of their friends’ funerals, their steps slow and haunted by what occurred. The groundskeeper places the ornate black envelope back on a tombstone, a quiet reminder that the cycle of haunting may not be finished. The film ends on a somber note, emphasizing the cost of meddling with forces beyond understanding.