Synopsis for
FleshEater (1988) More at IMDbPro »

A group of teenage kids are taking a hayride in the countryside on Halloween. They pay the local farmer to take them to a secluded area of the forest. The kids arrive and begin drinking, telling the farmer to come back after dark to pick them up. As the party wears on the group separates to find their own little love nests.

Meanwhile, another farmer has stumbled across a large tree stump which he proceeds to remove with the help of his tractor. Under the stump is a large wooden box with an ancient seal telling not to break open the box. The farmer breaks the seal and opens the box. Inside is the "Flesheater", a zombie who precedes to eat the farmer making him a zombie in the process. Both zombies head towards where the kids are.

Two of the kids who retreated to the barn for some alone time are killed by the Flesheater. As the ghoul is killing the kids, two of their friends walk in and see what's happening then they run outside back to the woods to warn the group at the party. Inside the barn, the kids who were attacked become zombies and head out of the barn to look for for fresh victims. One of the girls is attacked in the woods by the Fleasheader. It tears a chunk of shoulder away but the girl is saved by her boyfriend who hears her screams and tackles the ghoul.

The remaining kids retreat to the old "Spencers Farm" a dis-used farmhouse in the woods. They proceed to nail up the windows and doors. They manage to phone the police but the call is cut short when a zombie outside rips the phone line out.

Meanwhile, the two kids who escaped from the barn have caught up with the group (who refuse to open the doors in case of an attack) so the two kids hide in the basement and lock the door. Upstairs, the girl bitten on the shoulder dies and returns as a zombie. Just as she gets up the Fleasheader and the rest of the zombies outside break in and all of the remaining group are slaughtered, each becoming a zombie and heading into the woods for more victims.

A little later at nightfall, a police car then turns up at Spencer's farm responding to the cut-short phone call. The police officer is attacked by a group of zombies, and despite killing two of them by shooting them in the head, he is attacked and eaten alive. The two kids in the basement open the door and see the body of the policeman. They take his gun and kill his half remaining zombie corpse and escape into the night.

The Fleasheater and some of the zombies find their way to a residential street where they proceed to eat a local family inside their home turning them into zombies in the process.

Meanwhile, the two kids find a local stable where they try to warn the owner about the coming attack. He goes inside the house to find that his wife has become a zombie. More zombies appear and the man is cornered and eaten alive and the kids flee again.

They find a large barn where a Halloween party is being held. The kids try to warn the group about the undead but they laugh it off as Halloween nonsense. Soon the zombies arrive and slaughter all of the party-goers. The two kids who survived the basement find a hiding spot inside the framework of the barn.

Back in town, the police department is assembling a posse after hearing of the officer who was killed at Spencer's farm. As daylight approaches, the posse have arrived at the woods. They find zombies emerging from the woods and proceed to kill the creatures. They proceed through the woodland killing zombies as they go. The posse arrive at the barn and find the party-goers are all zombies. The posse kill them as the zombie group come out of the barn. The two kids hiding in the barn hear the gunshots and think they are saved. They exit the barn and are shot on site by sniper rifle (by the same actor who shoots Ben in Night of the living dead).

The posse throws all the bodies inside the barn and barricade it shut. They set it on fire burning the remaining few zombies inside. The posse thinking they destroyed all the zombies head home.

A few days later, a police officer is checking out the remains of the barn when he is attacked by the original Flesheater, who kills him by biting his neck out... and the zombie outbreak begins all over over again.