The son of a sheriff falls in love with runaway bootlegger's daughter in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. After discovering a dark family secret, he is forced to choose between protecting his father or saving the girl he loves.
電影一世紀，妖魔鬼怪亂銀幕也一世紀，從恐龍怪獸豆泥模型，到生動又恐怖特效化妝，到數碼特技革命搞怪搞得呼風喚雨，其實是人類借助千年神話，開發想像力的大功告成。想知怪物嚇人真相，兩個怪物頭號粉絲三年來孜孜走訪數十特效工作室，直擊傑出搞怪大師，《異形》《小魔怪》《未來戰士》《侏羅紀公園》《星河戰隊》等等怪物創作過程獨家披露，看創作者與怪物的激越關係，看怪物粉不離不棄old school 精神。巨大怪物情意結發「神」功，很像一部《科學怪人》哩！
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。
