[2] The film is set on a remote island where a voodoo curse raises the dead from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living.

Researchers at a remote jungle island outpost discover the natives are practicing voodoo and black magic.

This portal causes the dead to rise and the researchers on the island are killed, except for Jenny (Candice Daly), the daughter of a scientist couple.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island, a trio of hikers – Chuck, David, and Valerie – discover the cave that leads to the underground temple where the hellgate was originally opened.

Jenny and the mercenary group take shelter in the remains of the old research facilities' medical quarters, they are soon joined by Chuck (Jeff Stryker), the only surviving hiker.

Surrounded by zombies, Dan blows up the facility via a stockpile of grenades that appears suddenly, while Jenny and Chuck flee.

Chuck is killed, as Jenny throws her necklace charm into the hellgate to 'sacrifice her soul' and ends up being transformed into a zombie.

[4] In a retrospective review in Video Watchdog, After Death was described as having a "rousing opening sequence" but the story was critiqued for being "superficial and by-the-numbers even by the subgenre standards" and having an "incoherent ending".