Louis Creed, along with his wife, Rachel, and their two children, Gage and Ellie, are moving to a rural area where their neighbors are friendly, but they immediately tell them about the bizarre cemetery of the animals behind their new houses. After their cat is trampled by a truck, Louis leads her to bury her in the mysterious cemetery of the animals, which turns out to be not what it seemed. The Creed family begins to understand that sometimes the dead are better off staying with the dead, and coming alive …