American scientists working in Iraq, find a way of re-animating the dead using an Alien life-form/virus. When the base is blown up to destroy the research which has got out of control, one scientist escapes and takes up residence in the basement of an apartment block, where after a few run ins with the pathetic local young gangsters, he tries to bring one of them back from the dead while continuing his research. Meanwhile his stock of the virus is stolen by a drug addict who injects it thinking it will give him a high, turning him into a blood thirsty zombie-esqe creature who begins to run amok in the complex.
