汤玛斯(大卫•鲍伊 David Bowie 饰)和其他人看起来并没有什么不一样,但其实,他是来自另一个文明高度发达的星球的人类。汤玛斯原本在他的星球里有着自己的家庭、亲戚和朋友们,一次他发现了地球这颗充满水的星球,出于对水的迷恋,他离开了自己那个缺水的星球,来到了地球。在这里,汤玛斯利用他所掌握的先进技术创办了公司,很快就成了百万富翁。在地球上呆的时间长了,汤玛斯开始想念自己原来的星球、原来的家,但地球对他的诱惑实在太大了,汤玛斯最终将如何选择?
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. There, they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
表面看来,杰奇(帕姆·格里尔 Pam Grier 饰)是一名普通的空姐,然而,在暗地里,她一直利用职务之便,帮助军火商奥德尔(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)运送赃款,并从中获取暴利。一次意外中,杰奇的“生意”曝光了,她本人亦遭到了逮捕。得知此事,奥德尔派出了马克斯(罗伯特·福斯特 Robert Forster 饰),想要杀人灭口。 让奥德尔没有想到的是,马克斯竟然疯狂的爱上了杰奇,两人一拍即合,策划了一场阴谋将奥德尔耍得团团转,甚至派出了心腹梅兰妮(布里吉特·芳达 Bridget Fonda 饰)和路易斯(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)助其一臂之力。然而,当奥德尔发现自己受骗之时,他才发现,事态的发展早已经脱离了他的掌控。