The town of Elwood is a small, rural collection of colourful characters tended to by 'Doc' a physician who looks out for the well-being of the town and sees the community as his patient. Seiler, a war veteran trains a group of 20 something’s in paintball skirmish strategy as a practice for real weapon and militia training. The town is enclosed by wide fencing that stretches miles around its perimeter. What lies beyond the fence is something awful, in the deep forests surrounding the town. The community is guarded by a band of young people raised since childhood to be military combatants. Under the leadership of vet Seiler (Billy Zane), they are known by the community as 'Zombie Killers' a negative term used behind their backs. Ian Sommers tends to his dying mother Sharon (Dee Wallace) while having a semblance of normal life with girlfriend Nikki (Gabrielle Stone). Rory Gower and his young wife Toni (Mischa Barton) search for a reason behind the plague while Seiler and his young soldiers discover something far worse coming for Elwood. Something that may target them or put them in the way of an 'Elephant’s Graveyard' and Hell.