Between the southern states of Tennessee and Florida lies an abandoned stretch of highway that for several years has remained vacated except for its occasional visitors looking for camping ground, shelter from the unforgiving weather, or just a convenient route to avoid driving the interstates. But between the dates of October 10th 1997 and February 1st, 2003 the events that took place along Highway 49 had become a living nightmare for a number of men and women on account of one man, a blood thirsty psychopath who became known as “The Bedlam Butcher Of Highway 49”. One or two missing students begins to turn into four or five almost overnight and before they know it Detective Kendall Morse and Chief Of Police Hyatt Lerado are forced into a new form of hell known as Highway 49.
An isolated stretch of highway running from Tennessee to Florida being used as a victim dumping ground for a sadistic psychopath showing no end to his reign of murder and mayhem. Up and down the stretch of highway starting in Tennessee the remains of both male and female victims are found gutted and slaughtered inside a collection of shacks and remote shelters being used by the killer for a place to enforce his homicidal behavior without disturbance. Ordered by their superiors to put everything aside until a suspect is charged, Morse and Lerado are pushed into a 24 hour manhunt that leads to more repulsion and macabre than either one of them could have ever imagined or possibly ever will again. Become a part of the heinous journey into the depraved mind of a serial killer as he tries to earn his infamous place next to the worst of the worst in historical homicide.
Become the eyes watching over - to experience something that could not only happen in reality but has repeated itself time and time again. Inspired by historical true events and a variety of classic film directors such as Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Mario Bava and David Fincher SERIAL masterfully creates a mixture of multiple genres of classic horror, true crime and psychological thriller to make an untained product of fear that will not soon be forgotten.