Edmund
로버트 보스웰의 단편 모음집 중 7개 이야기를 모아 만든 영화다. 인생은 한순간이지만 기억은 영원히 남는다는 의미에서 사람들이 자신의 기억을 풀어 나간다. 아버지와의 옛일을 떠올리는 이야기 ‘겨울 산책’, 전학한 첫날의 이야기 ‘손님’, 자매의 이야기 ‘거의 아름답지 않은’, 바람 난 남편과 헤어져 홀로 아이를 키우는 모니카의 이야기 ‘유명한 아가씨’, 바람 난 아내와 그 아이를 만나는 이야기 ‘공백’, 친구들과 야한 얘기를 나누는 이야기 ‘마리화나’, 방황하는 청년들의 이야기 ‘무감각한 개자식들의 전성기’로 이루어져 있다.
What if a machine could tell you cryptically, but with 100% accuracy, how you are going to die?
Sir Jim
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
DC
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a series of killer earthquakes. The corporation will stop at nothing to keep this secret from becoming public.
Ray Spellman
Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will isn't really taking a sentimental journey at all: He's merely in town to modernize and streamline his family's real-estate company. While going through his grandfather's effects, Will and his grandmother come across the old man's diary--which reveals a lengthy relationship with a woman named Lillian.
Dr. Heller
When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance.
Wedding Priest
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Preacher
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
Motel Manager
세탁 공장에서 일하는 폴은 자신이 누구인지 기억하지 못해 3년이나 궁금증에 빠져 지낸다. 그러던 어느날 아론 완필드란 작자가 나타나 폴에게 초능력이 있는데, 그 초능력을 쓰려면 자신의 집으로 가야 한다는 말을 한다. 그때 홀든이 지휘하는 미국 지하 정부 특수반 소속 대원들이 나타나 폴을 데려가려 한다. 폴은 도망치다 교통사고가 나 의식을 잃고 병원에 실려가는데, 엑스레이 촬영 결과 자신의 다리 안쪽에 쇠붙이가 있음을 알게 된다.
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Doctor
Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has been assigned to watch over her. By telling Regina's story through flashbacks interwoven with her present situation, the film helps us understand this woman in a unique, disturbing and sympathetic way
Scholar
A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.
Director of OMB
데이브 코빅(케빈 클라인)은 볼티모어에서 직업 소개서를 운영하고 있다. 평범한 그는 자기를 찾아오는 실업자에게 일자리를 소개해 주는데서 즐거움을 찾는다. 그런 데이브에게는 아주 특이한점이 있는데 그것은 바로 미국의 44대 대통령 빌 미첼(케빈 클라인)과 똑같이 생겼다는 것이다. 미첼 대통령은 볼티모어 방문시 공식적인 행사에서 사적이고도 은밀한 시간을 갖기 위해 데이브를 잠시 내세우기로 한다. 미첼 대통령의 교활한 비서 실장 밥(프랭크 란젤라)은 데이브에게 잠시 대통령 흉내만 내게함으로서 국가에 봉사할 수 있는 기회를 제공한다고 유혹한다. 그러나 여비서와의 은밀한 계획을 가졌던 진짜 대통령 미첼이 뇌졸증으로 혼수상태에 빠지자 데이브는 비서실장 밥의 강요에 대통령 역할을 계속할 수 밖에 없게 된다. 졸지에 진짜 대통령이 되어 버린 데이브...
Expert
알콜중독으로부터 완쾌된 LA 형사 벨린(John Berlin: 엔디 가르시아 분)은 이제 한 소도시로 전출되어 그곳에서 다시 경찰업무를 시작한다. 부임 첫날 그에게 주어진 임무는 맹인 여성들을 상대로 한 연쇄살인 사건의 진범 체포. 수사에 착수한 벨린은 이번 사건의 증인인 헬레나(Helena Robertson: 우마 써먼 분)를 만나게 되고, 신비한 분위기를 지닌 그녀의 주변을 배회하며 사건의 냄새를 맡던 그는 어느덧 그 맹인 여교사에게 사랑을 느끼게 된다. 그러나 그 여인은 위험한 사각지대에 놓인 폭발물같은 존재로 연쇄살인범인 다음 대상을 지목한 코드명 제니퍼는 바로 그녀를 가르킨 것이었는데.
Judge Landis
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
Warden
Escaped convict Gary Nicholson falls in love becomes obsessed with artist Laura Hendricks. He vows to protect her and her six-year-old son from any and all antagonists.
Barber
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.
Priest
Ron Douglas has no luck in women, and when his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains, only to be reminded more of his misery when placed in the honey-moon wing of the hotel. However he finds love with Cynthia, a beautiful blonde, and his self esteem improves. Cynthia invites him for Christmas dinner, and he accepts, only to meet Cynthia's eccentric cannibal family, and finds out HE is the main course.
Reverend Fisher
우주의 바운티 헌터들과 함께 우주로 떠났던 찰리(돈 오퍼 분)는 지구에선 별볼일 없던 때와는 달리 우주 괴물 사냥에 맹활약을 하고 있다. 이때 다시 지구에 크리터의 생존이 확인되자 다시 임무를 받고 지구로 향한다. 한편, 2년전 무시 무시한 크리터의 기습을 퇴치한 후 마을을 떠났던 소년 브래드 브라운(스콧 그림스 분)이 고향 글로버스 벤드에 잠시 돌아온다. 폐허가 된 농장에 얼룩덜룩한 가죽빛 알들이 부화하기 시작하고, 알에서 튀어나온 괴물 크리터스는 다시 인간들을 습격해 온다. 마을 보안관의 옷 속으로 들어가고 난 후 조금 있다가 그는 온몸이 피로 범벅이 된 채 죽어간다. 또 잡화상 퀴들리는 자기의 애견이 크리터스에게 잡혀먹는 광경을 직접 목격해야만 한다. 모든 것을 먹이로 보는 크리터스들의 습격으로 한마을이 일시에 수라장이 되는 것이다. 플레이 보이지의 요염한 걸로 변한 우그(테렌스 만 분)의 파트너 리도 괴물에게 죽음을 당하자, 위기에 빠진 마을 사람들을 구하기 위해 브래드는 묘안을 생각해 낸다. 크리터들을 햄버거 공장으로 유인하여 폭발시키는 것. 하지만 모두 퇴치했다고 생각한 크리터들이 둥글게 큰 공을 만들어 폭발 속을 빠져나와 마을 아이들이 있는 곳으로 향한다. 이때 찰리가 우주선을 몰아 크리터 무리 속으로 뛰어들어 마침내 위기에 빠진 아이들을 구해낸다.
Benji
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
Comedian
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
Priest
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”
Johnson
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
Patrick
An aging motorcycle gang assembles for a 25-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.
Mr. Sears
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Father Daly
Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his class mates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18-year-old student Julie.
Mr. Farragut
Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile, next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.
Professor Lewis
Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
Butler
A neighborhood boy (Bill Barrett) might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.
Director
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
Reporter Birney
An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.