女友玛丽（戴安·梅尔 Dina Meyer 饰）和同事的接连死亡让FBI探员杰克（西尔维斯特·史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰）陷入了绝望和崩溃之中，因为他很清楚的知道，这个冷酷的杀手是冲着他来的，痛苦而又无处发泄的杰克只得向酒精寻求帮助。亨德里克斯（查尔斯·达顿 Charles Dutton 饰）不忍心看到好友就此堕落，他建议杰克戒酒。 　　就这样，杰克来到了位于怀俄明荒原之中的戒酒中心，在这里，他结识了助理汉克（汤姆·贝伦杰 Tom Berenger 饰）和护士珍妮（波利·沃克 Polly Walker 饰）。一场可怕的暴风雪破坏了戒酒中心的电路和赖以取暖的锅炉，在黑暗和寒冷之中，杰克要面对的除了自己的心魔，还有潜藏在阴影里的凶手。

811 AD, a family, isolated in their home, deep in the woods a few days travel from Birka. They are poor. The hunting and fishing has been bad for some time, and the father, Joar, takes the desperate measure of going on a Viking raid. Joar does not return for a long time, and the family starts to fear he never will. Runa, the oldest daughter, takes over her fathers chores in his absence. She misses him dearly and nourishes a tender hope that he, once again, will return to them. But in her heart, somehow she knows, that the suffering of the family has just begun. There is something in the air, something in the water, the wind and in the soil. Runa is becoming aware of something vile, something dangerous out in the forest. One day when she is out hunting, she finds a bleeding man, a warrior, almost unconscious. She brings him inside and the family tend to his wounds. As he heals, she realizes he is sent to protect the family from an approaching evil. And he brings news of her father.

A man struggles to sell his house that is haunted so he arranges four people to live in the house for a few days to prove that there are no ghosts.

　　在引导陪审团对一个人进行了错误的判决之后，阿比盖尔开启了她在法学院的新教学工作，在伦理学方面有了新的道德评判。当她接管她的新课程时，有一个雄心勃勃的学生，文森特，他愿为得到A的成绩作任何事。当阿比盖尔因学术欺骗而使他失败时，文森特威胁说他将不择手段得到他想要的东西。当文森特的阴谋开始瓦解时，她必须把自己的生命掌握在自己手中，否则文森特将拿走它。

一事无成整日捣鼓艺术品的赫曼在叔叔的介绍下，住进了一间神秘的单间公寓，那里他遇到了一位改变他命运的“缪斯”。