纽约市一场灾难性的核爆炸后，乔什（米洛·文提米利亚 Milo Ventimiglia 饰）、米奇（迈克尔·比恩 Michael Biehn 饰）、玛丽琳（罗姗娜·阿奎特 Rosanna Arquette 饰）、萨姆（罗姗娜·阿奎特 Rosanna Arquette 饰）、达尔文（考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰）、伊娃（劳伦·日尔曼 Lauren German 饰）、艾德里安（阿什顿·霍尔莫斯 Ashton Holmes 饰）、波比（迈克尔·艾克朗德 Michael Eklund 饰）这8个陌生人躲进了一座公寓大楼的地下室中。突然一群身着核生化防护服的武装人员出现，掳走了幸存者中的小女孩并准备要杀死剩下的所有人，幸存者们反抗并杀死了武装人员。但地下室的大门被武装人员从外面封死了，人们被困在了地下室中。随着时间的流逝，幽闭恐惧症让这次从避难所变成了牢笼人们开始绝望，已经开始心理扭曲，做出了一些常人难以想象的的事……

　　Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.
　　While most of the later movies exploited this possibility for B-movie thrills, "Five" adopts a quiet, contemplative tone which some may find dull but which thoughtful viewers are more likely to find, for want of a better word, haunting. There is something about this movie which gets under the skin and which lurks in the corners of the mind long after it's over.

　　由21 个闹剧穿插一部科幻短片组成的闹剧，导演罗伯特（《怪异的阿尔 杨克维奇》）、约翰（《动物屋》）等等都是环球影片公司的一线导演，他们的共同特点就是在搞怪搞笑方面各有绝招。这些短片大都是对美国夜间电视节目和低成本科幻片的戏仿，故事包括一个男子受到他所住的房子攻击、一场由喜剧演员主持的葬礼和被吸进电视机里的人等等。
　　眼花缭乱 满嘴放炮

　　The King of Queens and Pall Blart: Mall Cop star Kevin James is set to star in the new action comedy Guns Up, playing an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman. When a job goes horribly wrong and both of his worlds collide, he has one night to get his family out of the city.

　　A bitter old boxer tasked with caring for his grandson uses the opportunity to settle his oldest grudge by forcing his kin into embracing the sweet science.