夜色中,天空突然出现异像,来自太空的神秘光芒消失于大海深处……在一所老人院里,乔(休姆·克罗宁 Hume Cronyn 饰)和一班老人在生命衰竭的阴影中尽量享受人生的快乐,去隔壁的游泳池中戏水是这些老朋友的兴趣所在。与此同时,经营游船出租的杰克(斯蒂夫·古根伯格 Steve Guttenberg 饰)接待了一批客人,这伙人自称他们租船是为了研究海中的大牡蛎,并将打捞来的“牡蛎”放置在老人院隔壁的泳池中。老人们如常在泳池戏水,但是在这里多了几个“巨蛋”以后,老人们从水中得到了源源不断的能量,焕发了青春活力。而在船上的杰克意外发现,他的客人们根本不是研究人员,而是寻找“牡蛎”形状同胞的外星来客……
本片根据法国杂技艺术家菲利普·帕特的个人自传改编,翻拍自2009年奥斯卡最佳纪录长片《走钢丝的人》,真实还原了1974年8月7日的惊世壮举。从小就拥有杂技表演天赋的菲利普·帕特(约瑟夫·高登-莱维特 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 饰)在街头卖艺时,邂逅美丽的街头音乐女孩安妮(夏洛特·莱本 Charlotte Le Bon 饰)。偶然的机会,菲利普得知纽约世贸双子大厦即将竣工。从此,菲利普就萌生了在这两座摩天大厦间走钢索的的想法。然而这疯狂的“艺术犯罪”却遭到了一系列的质疑和误解,但这并没有击垮菲利普的坚定信念,他深入调查缜密部署,先后得到走钢丝经验丰富的鲁迪爸爸(本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰)的执导,以及让-路易(克雷蒙·史鲍尼 Clement Sibony 饰)和杰夫(塞萨·多姆波伊 César Domboy 饰)等人的帮助。在110层412米的云中,菲利普开始了他的钢丝行走。
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.
Set in 1987, a group of filmmakers venture into the California wilderness to film a shot on video slasher movie and soon find themselves systematically crippled, butchered and devoured by a family of feral cannibals.
A married couple, trying to rebuild their relationship after an affair, travels to a secluded cabin and stumbles into a blood feud between the Native American owners of the property and the neighboring clan, who obsessively guard their land and punish those who trespass on it in terrifying ways.