Tess was stillborn, but revived in the morgue by a lightning strike. On her 16th birthday, she sets out to find her mother - and her electrokinetic powers help her to clear all obstacles out of the way. Meanwhile, her mother Lena is searching for her supposedly dead daughter's grave and encounters inconsistencies. Will the strange series of murders among her acquaintances have anything to do with it and will the two ever find each other?
With the iconic Barbara Crampton as actress Laura, Richards pulls off a metafictional coup in REBORN, seamlessly weaving her Scream Queen image with the supernatural Frankenstein story and a tender mother-daughter drama. After THE LAST HORROR MOVIE, he again takes up the film business as a theme, reflecting both the working conditions of worn-out genre actors and actresses shrewdly and cleverly as well as classic formats of horror cinema.