When his sister's classmate, Leelaa, comes to spend the summer at his family home, a friendship is forged in few days and when our hero decides to take off on a road trip across the country, Leela is more than ready to join him. But something happens on that road trip. Situations go out of control and our lead pair are thrown into a vortex that they're completely unprepared for and beyond their control.
A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.
A group of young people who are helping their friend clean out his his late grandfather's farmhouse are terrorized by a living scarecrow who has his own stake in his dead creator's property.
鲍威尔(安东尼•霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)是一位专门研究黑猩猩的人类学家,他在卢旺达长期观察观察当地黑猩猩的活动。然而两年前,这位性情温和的学者突然性情大变,杀了两位当地的森林管理员以及伤害了多名管理员后神秘失踪。如今,他终于被逮捕归案,关押在美国高度戒严的精神病监狱。 年轻的精神病专家卡尔特(小库珀•古丁 Cuba Gooding 饰)意图揭开鲍威尔精神失常之谜而一举成名,于是他深入到监狱直接与鲍威尔进行对话。鲍威尔一开始对这位访客充满敌意,身为人类学家的他在卡尔特面前一点也不落下风。随着对话的逐渐深入,卡尔特渐渐了解到了事件真相:鲍威尔杀害的管理员其实是偷猎大猩猩的恶棍……