一位年轻的辩护人前往调查发生在一个小镇里的罪犯身上的离奇事件，随后便发现了邪恶的超自然力量在背后作祟。
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
影片讲述了凤凰城UFO事件之后，奇怪的事情开始接连发生，三名青少年乔希、艾希莉、马克在用DV记录这一切的过程中突然离奇失踪，至今下落不明。在他们失踪二十周年之际，乔希的妹妹苏菲为了寻找真相，决定和男朋友杰伊展开调查，随着当年拍摄的内容不断被披露，隐藏在背后的真相也将浮出水面。
Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil. 在玛丽·雪莱的小说两百年后，才华横溢但疯狂的医生使他自己和他的怪物从两个世纪前的当初的实验一直幸存下来。如今，美国探员 O'Connor 在调查系列谋杀案时，被引向了医生和他的怪物，并揭露出在长达两个多世纪的漫长岁月中，医生和他作品间的奇特演变和他们踏上善与恶的不同道路。