就读于某医学院的奥利维娅·“丽芙”·摩尔（罗丝·麦克莱弗 Rose McIver 饰）学业精进，甜美可人，她原本拥有美好光明的人生，谁知一个反常的决定彻底颠覆了她既定的命运。经不住同侪的劝说，她参加了一个在轮船上举行的狂欢派对。可是派对上一种神秘的药物令所有人变成了嗜血如命的狂暴丧尸。次日一早，奥莉维娅从裹尸袋中坐起，她明明已经死去，如今则以丧尸的身份复活。外貌和气质的巨大转变以及可怕的遭遇令家人手足无措，而身体内对脑子的渴望也让她焦灼不堪。为此奥莉维娅在西雅图验尸官办公室谋得一份职业，从此她有了稳定的食物来源，与此同时她发现自己也顺势拥有了死者的记忆……
本片根据CW电视台与DC漫画合作的同名漫画改编。
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper（丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰），因为坏运气和坏脾气，他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院，里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由，就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生，甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方，任何事情都不是表面那样，Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在，但这样可能会证明：最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。
