After giving their blessing for their daughter to marry nurse Greg Faker, former CIA agent Jack Burns and his wife head to Miami to visit the groom’s parents. They have a lot of questions on their minds. What kind of family are the Fakers? And what kind of parents would name their son Gay (Gaylord) M. Faker?
November 1995. Angela, a film studies student, is writing her thesis on “Audiovisual Violence.” She asks her advisor, Professor Figueroa, to retrieve several tapes from the university archives containing films that are banned from TV broadcast due to graphic scenes of violence, and she makes the same request to her classmate Cheme, who, according to rumors, has a collection of such films at home. Though slightly embarrassed, Figueroa manages to take one of the tapes from the “Pornography” section, and while watching the film in the university theater, he dies. Angela is the first to find the professor’s body, and she takes the tape home. It turns out that the tape contains a snuff film, and Chema recognizes the victim as Vanessa, a student at their university who went missing two years ago.
In Venice, professional thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily, who are posing as members of high society, meet. They fall in love and decide to join forces. They travel to Paris and take jobs with the famous perfumer Madame Mariette Cole, intending to steal a large sum of money from her safe.
After successfully completing a job, Walker is betrayed by his partner, Reese. Two years later, Walker—whom everyone believes to be dead—returns and begins to carry out his plan for revenge, attempting to recover the $93,000 that was stolen from him. However, his former partner is now a member of a major crime syndicate, and getting to him won’t be so easy.
It turns out that 2,000 years ago, the Magi got it slightly wrong, and due to a minor astronomical error, they ended up presenting their gifts to the wrong newborn. The child’s name was Brian, and he just happened to be born at the same hour and only one house away from You-Know-Who. Because of this incident, everyone later mistook Brian for the Messiah, and he was too lazy to set his fans straight. However, the adoration of the masses has a downside as well as a upside, and so Brian finds himself, to his dismay, in the role of a desperate religious leader of the People’s Front of Judea, fighting for freedom from the Roman yoke—and in the thick of major trouble with the occupying authorities!…
Grace and Jackson, a young couple, move from New York to Jackson’s old family home in the countryside. Six months after their child is born, the passion fades; the young father spends more and more time working odd jobs away from his family, while Grace languishes at home. The woman’s behavior becomes increasingly strange and unpredictable.
The cunning con artist Johnny Farrell is saved from death by the enigmatic Balin Mandson, the owner of a major casino. Johnny becomes his right-hand man, but the friendship between them begins to fall apart when Balin returns to town with his young wife, Gilda, after yet another absence. Everything suggests that Gilda and Johnny were once lovers, but now their feelings seem more like mutual hatred.
Schoolgirl Yana finds a giant egg in a cave, which, according to legend, is home to demons. A small monster hatches from the egg, and the girl decides to tame it. The monster grows, and with it grows the threat to both Japan and all of humanity. If the fire-breathing Gamera does not come to the world’s aid and destroy the bloodthirsty monster, a new apocalypse will ensue.
