实录阿部定

　　致力于研究暴力行为根源的世界著名心理学家阿曼达·泰勒博士，有一个访谈和评估死囚杰克逊·谢伊的良机，随着访谈的开始，决定杰克命运的天平失去了平衡，阿曼达必须决定是否应该允许执行死刑！

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

洛杉矶警探乔瑟夫（克莱格·谢菲尔 饰）是个标准败类，嗑药嗑得比谁都勤快，调查命案不忘顺手牵羊，更枉顾家中妻小，专搞迷人可爱的阻街女郎。一宗幼童谋杀案现场，乔瑟夫捡回一只受过诅咒的奇异盒子，打开后怪事不断一桩接一桩：昨夜搞上的妓女意外身亡，他瞬间成为头号嫌疑犯；一连串似幻似真的恐怖体验更不断尾随，无脸怪人四处追杀人群，《养鬼吃人》系列当家猛鬼－针头鬼（Pinhead）也重出江湖，一个头两个大的乔瑟夫该如何解决这谜一般的虚实梦魇？本片改编自克里夫巴克（Clive Barker）恐怖小说「受地狱羁绊之心」The Hellbound Heart，这颗坏心肠的主人正是故事男主角乔瑟夫，身为警察的他自身行为不检点也罢，涉嫌谋杀难以脱罪的他竟然嫁祸好同事，善恶终有报，恶徒乔瑟夫果然陷入万劫不复的魔鬼梦魇，活著比死更痛苦。