“The ground is still sour… and evil never stays buried.”
The cursed soil of Ludlow, Maine, is stirring once more.
Decades after the horrors of 1969, Ashes of Ludlow returns us to the haunted town where death never rests — and where resurrection is no longer a gift, but a curse evolving beyond control.
Dwayne Johnson leads as Sheriff Marshall Holt — a grizzled war veteran turned weary lawman — tasked with protecting a community built on bones and forgotten sins. But when a new construction site disturbs the unmarked graves hidden beneath Ludlow’s ancient woods, a dormant evil awakens. The earth splits, and what lies beneath begins to crawl toward the surface… sentient, angry, and starving.
Tom Cruise joins the cast as Dr. Elias Vorn, a former Ludlow child turned world-renowned skeptic and now a reluctant paranormal researcher, drawn back by strange visions and a voice that won’t let go. Emily Blunt portrays Rachel Holt, Marshall’s estranged sister and a grief counselor whose buried trauma binds her to the soil’s sinister past.
As disappearances escalate and the dead return not in mourning — but with malice and direction — the trio must race against an uprising that doesn’t simply raise corpses, but spreads like infection. This is no longer about burial rituals or sacred ground. The force beneath Ludlow has learned, adapted… and it wants out.
Bleak, immersive, and drenched in dread, Ashes of Ludlow carves deeper into the mythos of Stephen King’s terrifying legacy, revealing that the real horror isn’t death… but what comes after
