Anna is stuck she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to back the f-off. However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

故事发生在一个电脑科技极为发达的年代，一名科学家发明了一个杀人程序协助警方办案，其中集结了数百名连环杀手的资料和他们的作案手法。这个程序是如此的邪恶，最后不仅生成了个人意志，更拥有了人类的外表和可以随时修复任意损伤的特殊能力，它从禁锢中逃脱了出来，在世间作恶。 　　为了捕捉这位邪恶的“凶手”，警方设计了一个追踪仪器，罪犯帕克（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）被选中成为了仪器的试验品。帕克曾经亦是一名警察，却因为动用私刑杀死了让他家破人亡的杀手而被免除了职务打入大牢。而让帕克感到在意的是，在杀人程序中，亦有当年杀害他家人的那名杀手的存在。

利亚姆从车祸中醒来，却不记得他是谁。当他走进小镇寻求帮助时，他发现只有死人，所有的人都有着奇怪苍白的眼睛。利亚姆的第一感应是，一种病毒出现在空气中。但他很快就发现了可怕的真相：“任何一个在离他50英尺半径范围内的人都会立刻死亡。”

　　时间是1979年，美国俄亥俄州一个平凡小镇。少年乔·兰布（乔尔·科特尼 Joel Courtney 饰）痛失母亲，生死悲痛让他久久地沉默。数月后，他应好朋友查尔斯（雷利·格里芬斯 Riley Griffiths 饰）的邀请，决定约上几个朋友一起用超8摄像机（8 mm）拍摄一部恐怖电影。当然令他下定决心的，是那个令她心仪的美丽女孩爱丽丝（艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 饰）也参与其中。在某个夜晚，爱丽丝驾驶父亲的汽车载着伙伴们来到火车站拍戏，谁知却目睹了一场极其惨烈的火车事故。　　这起事故还只是一系列不寻常事件的开始，小镇上的人们相继离奇失踪，各种奇怪的事件也接连发生。少年们的摄像机记录关于这一切的秘密……

Bill Kiowa (Montgomery Ford) is released after a five-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. The bandit El Fego (Tatsuya Nakadai), who did the actual crime, also killed Kiowa's young Native American wife. Once free, Kiowa raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. An Italian western in the A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS mold with a better than average cast, which includes Bud Spencer in the debut of his heavy-handed character (later made famous in the TRINITY series) and the outstanding Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for his role in Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA. Written by horror-meister Dario Argento and presented here in the English-language version (which, considering it was filmed MOS with an international cast, is nearly as original dialogue as its Italian-language counterpart).