影片从1910年爱迪生的电影工作室拍摄的《弗兰肯斯坦》讲起，串起近百年的美国恐怖片发展史。为什么恐怖片能在美国取得如此巨大的成功？为什么美国观众如此热衷于血腥和暴力？影片邀请来诸位恐怖片大师，包括乔·丹特（《小魔怪》）、约翰·卡朋特（《万圣节》）、达伦·林恩·鲍斯曼（《电锯惊魂2》）等等，详述他们对于恐怖片的理解，混剪进各类经典恐怖镜头着实效果非常。
阳光明媚的加州海滨度假区，青春男女正无忧无虑的在碧海中游弋。他们不知道，这里正在进行着一项绝密试验。蓝水总部公司的纳森·桑兹博士（埃瑞克·罗勃兹 Eric Roberts 饰）和他的女儿妮可（莎拉·马拉克·雷恩 Sara Malakul Lane 饰）在军方的资助下，通过转基因等手段制造出一个半鲨鱼半章鱼的怪物，代号S-11。通过特定的控制器，总部可以控制章鲨的行动，完成各种各样军事任务。但是一场事故导致控制器损毁，章鲨脱离控制，全速向墨西哥西海岸游去。
为了防止章鲨伤害无辜，桑兹父女一路追踪，并且拜托安迪·弗林（Kerem Bursin 饰）帮助寻找。与此同时，恐怖的章鲨在沿岸展开了肆无忌惮的大屠杀……
The opening shot is of a young couple (Gail Ganley and Ralph Reed) in a sports car necking. She excuses herself and the boy drives off. The girl is approached by a man carrying a silver briefcase. He removes his sunglasses and she screams and collapses on the lawn. The man removes a rubber hose and needle and attaches it to her neck and empties her blood into vials in his case....
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
After a nuclear holocaust, a rancher and his daughter hole up in a mountain cabin protected from the radioactive fallout. Another group of survivors, including a geologist and a criminal, descend upon the cabin for refuge and cause a series of romantic entanglements with the rancher's comely daughter. Added tension arrives in the form of mutated radioactive creatures roaming th...
A psychic named Quintus Ratcliff (Val Dufour) sends a woman (Pamela Duncan) back in time to find out about her past-life experiences. She goes back as Helene, a woman from the Middle Ages who is to die at dawn under suspicion of being a witch.[2] In an attempt to save Diana and keep all of time from being distorted, Quintis goes back in time to convince Helene to let herself be...
