Raimi's first directorial work, it co-stars his frequent collaborator Bruce Campbell.

The film tells the story of a family whose uncle is murdered.

A detective (Scott Spiegel) is trying to find out who murdered the uncle while avoiding ending up dead as well.

Raimi, Spiegel, Campbell and company all started making films in high school and made It's Murder!

while they were still in college, working with Raimi's brother's roommate, Robert Tapert.