Dean Corso, one of the foremost experts in locating, appraising, and purchasing rare books, accepts an unusual but extremely lucrative commission from the owner of the world’s largest library of occult books: to authenticate the crown jewel of the collection, a 17th-century folio titled *Nine Gates to the Realm of Ghosts*, which, according to legend, can be used to summon Lucifer himself. He is about to embark on a journey through Europe fraught with danger and mystery. But only when the bodies of people Dean Corso had met just recently begin to turn up on his path to unraveling the mystery of the “Nine Gates” does a sinister truth dawn on him. He realizes that in this devilish game, not only his life but also his soul is at stake.

Mike Church is a private investigator from Los Angeles who specializes in locating missing persons. He is working on the case of a young woman he calls Grace. She suffers from amnesia and remembers nothing of her past. She is constantly tormented by nightmares in which Margaret Strauss, a pianist from the late 1940s, is killed with scissors by her husband, Roman Strauss. During the investigation, Church turns to Franklin Madson, an antique dealer, for help. With the aid of hypnosis, they hope to uncover the truth.

After responding to an emergency call at a hotel, a police inspector found no evidence of a crime but noticed some strange goings-on. An avalanche prevented him from leaving that same day, and soon the inspector discovered the body of a murdered guest. Suspicion falls on everyone staying at the hotel.

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by someone they initially mistake for a yeti. However, they soon begin to suspect that extraterrestrial life forms are involved.

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.

Mun went blind at the age of two. At twenty, she underwent a corneal transplant and regained her sight, but she has since become the victim of inexplicable phenomena—now mysterious figures are relentlessly pursuing her.

The near future, Los Angeles. To combat high crime rates, the government begins using the “Mercy” AI judicial system, which determines whether a suspect is guilty and carries out the sentence itself. Two years later, veteran police officer Chris Raven finds himself in the defendant’s chair—the very man who sent the first criminal to “Mercy” for judgment. Chris is accused of murdering his own wife, and he has just 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the heartless machine.

When a terrorist attack is blamed on the Air Force, Special Vehicle Unit 2 gets caught in the middle of a growing political conflict.

The arrogant elderly judge Stefan Mortensen suffers a stroke right in the middle of a court session and ends up in a secluded nursing home. Hoping for a quick recovery, he has no intention of staying there long, but soon he finds himself in a confrontation with a cruel resident who, unbeknownst to the staff, torments the defenseless elderly residents.

In a small American town, several teenagers have been brutally murdered. Veteran police officer John Brady, himself the father of a high school student, believes the crimes are linked to a research laboratory conducting questionable medical experiments...