美女献身

 美丽少女安吉•阿尔布莱特（莎拉•汤普森 Sarah Thompson 饰）独自到位于偏远山区小镇的亚当斯学院求学。这里看似安宁，却是个地道的危险所在，一段时间内不断传出女孩失踪并被杀害的消息。某天，安吉在学校布告栏看到招聘保姆的通知。为了赚取生活费，她前往通知上所写的农庄应聘。雇主是年轻的史丹顿夫妇吉姆（布鲁斯•托马斯 Bruce Thomas 饰）和瓦尔莉特（Kristen Dalton 饰），他们即将参加农场举行的集会，因此招聘保姆照看他们年幼的儿子山姆（凯伊•卡斯特 Kai Caster 饰）。应聘当夜，山姆很早上床睡觉，安吉则独自一人看书，这一晚似乎平静轻松。但随之后来的一系列事件随即引起安吉的恐慌：默不作声的骚扰电话、不断撞击的房门、沉默冷静的山姆、经常尾随安吉的神秘男子。这一切的背后，仿佛隐藏着更为恐怖的秘密……

　　该片讲述了道士们争夺传闻中神剑的高丽末期和外星人出没的2022年之间的时光之门被打开后，引发的异想天开的故事。

 依据1922年的凶杀案改编，描写贩卖私酒的匪帮和警方角力的故事。影史第一次以盗匪当主角，运用背面打光和烟雾，颇具艺术风格，广受欢迎，也预示40年代黑色电影的来临。

　　在這個神祕又黑暗的城市裡，犯罪，只是家常便飯。被絕症折磨的教師比爾（賽門佩吉飾演）試圖自我了斷，但始終想死卻死不成。某日，比爾在深夜的咖啡廳裡結識了美豔金髮女服務生安妮（瑪格羅比飾演）。兩人竟因為「如何成功自殺」這話題而打開話匣子，培養出一段詭異友誼…。而在城市的另一角落，兩位正在執行危險任務的殺手（麥斯艾朗、戴克斯特佛萊契飾演），為了獲得高額賞金在城市之間來回奔走，急切想要找到暗殺目標的線索…。　　然而夜班警衛（麥克邁爾斯飾演）的出現，竟意外牽起這兩組貌似毫無關聯的人物。隨著一樁又一樁的犯罪事件發生，也逐漸揭露出眾人的神秘過去，以及交織而成的愛恨情仇。最終，他們發現自己全被捲入一場錯綜複雜的犯罪大計。究竟他們能否找出事實真相？而事件背後的神秘主謀又是誰呢？

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.