En route to Lake Tahoe for a much anticipated vacation, the Carver family is arrested for blowing out all four tires on their camper. Collie Entragian is the arresting officer, the self-made sheriff of a town called Desperation, Nevada, and the quintessential bad cop. Unbeknownst to the Carvers, Entragian regularly sniffs out passerbys on this stretch of road, and in fact has done in nearly every resident of his hometown. He can also change form and summon the help of creepy creatures, including scorpions, snakes and spiders.

Travellers on a lonely stretch of Nevada highway are arrested by a corrupt police officer, not knowing that he is actually possesed by a demon who requires human bodies on a periodic basis to act as hosts for his consciousness.

A family on vacation, a writer on a journey, a couple in love, and a lonley hitchiker find themselves all to be brought the small town of Desperation, where a crazy cop, possessed by an ancient evil has savagely murdered the entire town in 2 days time. Now the hopes of these wayward souls rest in the hands of the family's young boy David, who possess a strange religiuos power that might be enough to fight of the evil in Desperation

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