美国亚利桑那州矿业小镇繁荣镇,一辆运送化学原料的卡车发生事故,将有毒废料倾倒进当地河流。镇上养蛛人的上千蜘蛛被污染,变得体积庞大,成批进入废弃的矿井栖息繁殖。小镇警长珊姆•帕克(卡瑞•伍尔Kari Wührer饰)的儿子迈克(史考特•泰拉 Scott Terra 饰)发现了巨大的蜘蛛腿,怀疑养蛛人遇害,但母亲珊姆却不听儿子解释。镇上矿主的儿子克里斯•麦克康莫克(大卫•阿奎特David Arquette饰)在镇议会上归来,反对镇长出售矿井的建议。克里斯对珊姆余情未了,却没勇气向佳人表明心迹。迈克将巨型蛛腿展示给克里斯看,后者依然将信将疑。与此同时,矿井里的巨大蜘蛛开始攻击镇上动物,然后是人类。通讯系统也被“八脚怪”破坏,全镇人的生命危在旦夕……
研究者对同年龄组的两个家庭做了跟踪调查:一对是IQ为130的天才组合,夫妻和睦,但是无嗣,正当两人准备作试管婴儿之时,男主人却在自慰中意外死亡;另一个家庭,都是IQ 80的低能夫妻,天天吵架,不过却人丁兴旺,不仅三代同堂,而且家族甚大。根据这个调查,研究者选择了一个自愿 者鲍尔斯(卢克•威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰)做冷冻实验,不想实验出了差错,500年后他醒来后,却成为地球上最聪明的人。他被盲打误撞地选做了总统的候选人,支持他的甚至还有5届自由搏击冠军。在盛大的竞选现场,他只能硬着头皮面对选民演说,对于目前的种植、沙尘暴等问题,他提出的是灌溉这一看似离谱的解决办法。而且,还得到了选民的拥护,然而这个美梦迅速破灭了,他开始遭到谩骂、攻击,甚至是性命堪忧……
An utterly unique homemade sci-fi-action-sexploitation buddy image, Runaway Nightmare is a sublimely amateurish mess that must be endured to be believed. Two pals running a worm ranch in Death Valley very long for some excitement to cut the boredom of their lifestyles. Their desires are fulfilled when they witness mobsters burying a gorgeous blonde girl alive in the desert, save her, and are taken captive by a ruthless squadron of feminine revolutionaries for their difficulty. Our heroes are very first tortured and then used as sex slaves, but eventually the girl gang invites them to join their cause, and they battle the syndicate to recover a briefcase full of taken platinum. Runaway Nightmare at first follows a standard male fantasy template (kidnapped by dominant females for stud solution), but it isn't pornographic. The male leads crack jokes like adolescent versions of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, but none of it's funny. The plot includes radioactive accidents, exploding warehouses, and club fights, but there is no action. First-and-only-time director Michael Cartel is fond of long, airless scenes in which nothing happens, giving Runaway Nightmare the bizarre waking fantasy feeling that badly built movies sometimes achieve accidentally. The dialogue is ridiculous, the situations are ludicrous, and there isn't an actor in sight. Brief, clumsily-inserted nude scenes are meant to double for characters in the narrative, nevertheless the women's bodies are different, their faces are obscured, and they're shot on videotape rather than the movie stock utilized for the rest of the picture. In spite of (and because of) these dubious Runaway, virtues Nightmare is a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, a fascinating failure that reaches brand new levels of weirdness, and its obscure house video launch is really worth seeking out for the jaded and the curiou
故事发生在七十年代的智利,独裁者的武断和专横让这里的民众生活在水深火热之中。弗兰西斯卡(安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰)是一位底下革命工作者,他伪装成了摄影师,想要通过获得独裁者暴力统治的证据来推翻政权。
一次偶然中,弗兰西斯卡结识了名叫伊莲娜(詹妮弗·康纳利 Jennifer Connelly 饰)的女子,伊莲娜是一位时装杂志的记者,她的美貌和独立很快就吸引了弗兰西斯卡的注意,随着时间的推移,情投意合的两人渐渐走到了一起。然而,伊莲娜已经有了男友,而她的男友正是一名秘密警察,就这样,弗兰西斯卡和伊莲娜为了他们的爱情,开始了行走在刀尖之上的游戏。
崇拜特斯拉的小胖桑尼(杰里米·雷·泰勒 Jeremy Ray Taylor 饰)和脑筋有些秀逗的山姆(卡里尔·哈里斯 Caleel Harris 饰)是一对在学校经常受坏小子们欺负的好朋友。这一天,两个人受雇于某户人家去做房屋的清洁工作,偶然间他们在阁楼发现一个奇怪的玩偶斯拉皮。在毫不知情的情况下,斯拉皮帮他们拜托了坏小子的纠缠,之后斯拉皮更帮着二人以及桑尼的姐姐莎拉(麦迪森·伊瑟曼 Madison Iseman 饰)大闹学校。虽然受惠于这个古怪的玩偶,但是三人也开始意识到斯拉皮邪魅笑容之下隐藏的危险和邪恶。遭到排斥的斯拉皮狂性大发,决定把万圣节闹个天翻地覆……
本片根据R·L·史汀的儿童文学系列《鸡皮疙瘩》改编。