When the guardian of an abandoned Los Angeles church dies before meeting the local bishop, a Catholic priest comes across an eye-opening discovery: a diary and a key leading to an aeons-old canister in the temple's basement. Horrified by the manuscript's dark revelations, the worried cleric turns to physicist Howard Birack to investigate the vessel. Without delay, the scientist assembles a hand-picked team to solve the riddle, always under the watchful eyes of the block's sinister down-and-outs. At first, Birack is sceptical until people transform into malevolent zombies right before his eyes. As the sealed bottle's sentient green fluid becomes increasingly restless, is the world prepared for the advent of the Prince of Darkness?—Nick Riganas