Phoenix was born into a circus family. His father Orgo was a knife thrower and his mother Concha was an acrobat. One day a woman saw Orgo dating a young tattooed woman. In a fit of jealousy, Concha threw acid in her husband's face. In retaliation, he cut off both of his wife's hands and then slit his own throat. All would be nothing, but it happened in front of little Phoenix. Naturally, the boy ended up in a mental institution.
After many years, he is released and settles down with his armless mother. Phoenix stays home all day, helps his mother cook meals, and tries to invent an invisibility formula. As Phoenix begins to visit his childhood memories, a string of brutal murders begins in the city.

Two strangers wake up in a basement where a man lies with a shot through his head and a gun in his hand. They are chained to the walls and do not remember how they got here. A voice from a found tape tells one of them to choose between killing his fellow victim or letting his wife and daughter die. Thus begins a cruel game, the unwilling participants of which have only 7 hours.

While driving home one day, Charlie finds a dying man in the desert with a bullet in his shoulder and a suitcase of cash, whom he brings back to his house.

Battle Royale is a government-sanctioned violent game in which high school students are forced to participate under threat of annihilation. On a deserted island, 42 high school students will mercilessly kill each other for three days using random objects and wits. Only one will return from the island alive.

Special Services agent Tom still can't make time for his girlfriend. When he finally decides to propose to her, his plans are interfered with by a small group who hijack the train under the English Channel on which they are traveling to Paris.

A terrorist places a radio-controlled bomb on a bus that will explode if the bus speed drops below 80 km/h. Once the bus enters the highway and picks up speed, the explosive device is activated and the bus itself turns into a “speed bomb” with hostages unable to stop. A member of the special services, together with a random fellow traveler who happens to be driving the bus, searches for a way to save lives.

Donnie Darko is an ordinary high school student, living with his parents and two sisters. One day he meets a man in a rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.

Father Angel, a Catholic priest, uses the Bible to calculate the day when the Antichrist will be born on earth. He knows the date but not the place, so he goes to all lengths to get the Devil himself to sign a contract with him to buy a soul. A casual acquaintance from a heavy music store and a popular host of an occult TV show become his helpers.

Retired homicide detective Vincent Swan receives a postcard from a serial killer maniac he thought was long dead. The Prophet's bloody Game of the Prophet begins again....

The participants are unsuspecting Internet users who are asked to answer a few questions; the rules are simple: the winner of the Game stays alive.... Vincent has a personal score with the Prophet - at one time at the hands of a maniac killed his daughter...

England, 1657. Fanny and John Lye live in puritanical austerity with their young son Arthur on a remote farm near Shropshire. Until one day they are approached for help by a young pair of strangers. They are being pursued by a ruthless sheriff on a case of orgies in the county.