A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.

A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.