A professor who is studying an ancient crypt near a cemetery accidentally unleashes evil from beyond the grave on the nearby burial ground. The curse causes the dead to rise up from their graves to devour the living for their cannibalistic needs; lucky for the undead, their main course will be a group of socialites having a weekend in a large mansion. Burial Ground is famous for Peter Bark's portrayal of young Michael. Although Bark was in reality an adult dwarf (with an obvious toupee), in the film he plays an adolescent boy. Bark turns in a performance as a young lad that lusts after his mother, both before and after he becomes a zombie.