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Plot
On October 30, during the annual Devil's Night crime spree in the city of Detroit, Michigan, Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) is at the scene of a crime, where Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas) has been beaten and raped, and her fiancé, guitarist Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), has been killed. As Shelly is transported to the hospital, Albrecht meets a young girl, Sarah (Rochelle Davis), whom Shelly and Eric cared for; her mother, Darla (Anna Levine) is a negligent drug addict who works as a waitress for one of the criminals who killed Eric and Shelly. Albrecht lies to Sarah, telling her everything will be okay and that Shelly will be fine, but Shelly eventually dies at the hospital.

One year later, a crow swoops down and lands on Eric's headstone awakening him from death. Eric returns to his old apartment and experiences flashbacks of his own death, remembering that he and Shelly were murdered by local thugs who work for a notorious gang boss named Top Dollar (Michael Wincott). Eric pierces his hands on some glass and sees his wounds regenerate and close, discovering that he is now immune to physical harm. He then dresses in a dark, imposing costume and paints his face in a parody of a porcelain harlequin mask. Guided by the crow, he sets out to avenge his and Shelly's deaths.

The crow helps Eric locate one of the thugs, Tin-Tin, and Eric kills him with his own knives, leaving behind a large crow-shaped bloodstain on the wall of the alley. He then goes to a pawn shop where Tin-Tin pawned Shelly's engagement ring the year before. Eric forces the shopkeeper to return the ring and interrogates him about Tin-Tin's associates. Eric lets the shopkeeper live to deliver a warning to the rest of the gang just before destroying the shop.

Eric finds the next thug, Funboy, getting high on morphine in an apartment with Darla. Funboy shoots Eric in the hand but is disarmed and telepathically forced to feel the emotional and physical pain of his assault on Eric and Shelly. Eric then confronts Darla, grabbing her arm and causing the morphine to come out of her arm. Eric tells her to quit drugs in order to be a good mother to Sarah. Seeing Darla fleeing the bar, Top Dollar's bodyguard Grange finds Funboy dead on the floor with multiple syringes stabbed into his chest.

At a convenience store, Eric kidnaps T-Bird, leading police on a high-speed pursuit through the city. Eric tapes T-Bird to the driver's seat, and fills the car's trunk with explosives. Eric puts the car in gear, causing it to careen off the pier and explode in mid-air, killing T-Bird.

The next morning, Sarah and Darla begin to repair their relationship. Sarah, having realised Eric's identity, goes to his old apartment and tells him that she misses him and Shelly. Eric explains that, although he cannot be friends with her anymore now that he is dead, he still cares for her and asks her to take care of their cat Gabriel.

Meanwhile, Top Dollar holds a meeting with his associates to discuss new plans for their annual Devil's Night crime spree. Eric arrives at the meeting and a massive gunfight ensues. Top Dollar escapes with his half sister/lover Myca, while Eric systematically kills everyone in the room, throwing the final thug, Skank, out of a window to his death. As the police arrive, Eric escapes and heads to the cemetery.

Now having finished his quest, Eric returns to his grave where he sees Sarah. She is then abducted by Top Dollar's bodyguard, Grange, who takes her into a nearby church where Top Dollar is waiting. Grange shoots the crow as it flies into the church, causing Eric to lose his immortality. Just after Top Dollar shoots and wounds Eric, Albrecht arrives, intending to pay his respects to Eric. A shootout occurs in which Grange is killed and Albrecht is wounded. Myca then grabs the wounded crow and Top Dollar ties Sarah up before climbing up the bell tower.

Eric heads up the bell tower and encounters Myca. Just before she is about to shoot him, the crow escapes Myca's grip and pecks out her eyes, causing her to fall down the bell tower to her death. Eric reaches the roof of the church and fights Top Dollar but due to his weakened condition, Top Dollar gains the upper hand. As Top Dollar is about to deal the final blow, Eric lunges forward and telepathically gives him all 30 hours of pain that Shelly suffered. This overwhelms Top Dollar and sends him falling off the roof of the church to his death. Eric makes his way to Shelly's grave and is approached by Shelly's spirit to reunite once again in death, knowing that both will now be able to rest in peace.

Sarah pays a final visit to the cemetery, and sees that both Eric and Shelly's graves now lie undisturbed. The crow gives her Shelly's engagement ring, dropping it in her open hand before soaring over the city and into the night.