一个令人难以置信的继母，有着巨大的性欲

　　遭受气候变化破坏的后末世，社会的方方面面都受到严格控制。一对夫妇想要生孩子，一名女性评估员前来对他们进行为期7天的审查，确定是否合格，此事却演变成一场噩梦。

 一对年幼的兄弟跟家人一起从大城市搬到偏远小镇，却发现新家并不单纯。他们能否与新朋友们一起解开家中的险恶谜团？

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　几个芝加哥大学附属医院高材生，在好奇心的驱使下，策划了一场探索死亡奥秘的疯狂实验。他们轮流躺在手术室里进入死亡状态，再由其他守护的同学将自己救活。这场惊险又刺激的死亡穿梭，在一个漆黑的深夜里一步步的开始了。　　第一个进行测试的纳尔逊（基弗·萨瑟兰 Kiefer Sutherland 饰）在“死”去之后，遇见了因他的侮辱而死去的男孩。死而复生后的纳尔逊，虽然各种感官都变得更加敏锐和灵敏，却陷入深深的梦魇之中；接受实验的第二个人是好色的乔（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰），他见到了各种色情场面，并且遇见了曾虐待过的女孩；紧接着，戴维（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）也接受了实验，他则将死亡实验延迟到了两分钟；女学生蕾切尔（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）更是在死亡时间里，重温了父亲自杀的经过。在体验过死亡世界之后，那些挥之不去的往日记忆开始无孔不入的侵占他们的一切。