Emily Gault chega à mansão Carrell determinada a reacender um antigo relacionamento com Guy Carrell, apesar da desaprovação de sua irmã, Kate. Guy supera seu medo intenso de ser enterrado vivo por tempo suficiente para se casar com Emily, mas logo fica obcecado novamente, construindo uma cripta projetada para garantir que ele não será vítima de seu pesadelo mais temido. Tentando provar que foi curado de sua fobia, ele abre a tumba de seu pai e fica em estado de choque em um estado catatônico. Seus piores medos se concretizam quando ele é baixado à sepultura e coberto, aparentemente para nunca saber que a traição de alguém muito querido foi a responsável direta por sua situação.

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.

A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

Salome goes out for another day at work, but not without bringing a definitive closure to a delicate occurrence.

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a ghostly portrait emerges, prompting Isidore to question his relationships with his parents and his boyfriend in Paris.