本片将更加忠实詹姆斯·奥·巴尔的同名漫画。讲述摇滚乐手埃里克·德雷文（比尔·斯卡斯加德 Bill Skarsg?rd 饰）和他的未婚妻雪莉（小枝女孩 FKA twigs 饰）被残忍杀害。一年后，埃里克从坟墓中苏醒，并进行复仇。复活后的埃里克拥有着超自然的力量，而他所到之处必定有乌鸦跟随。
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.
