距今一万年前的美洲,阿卡尼文明盛行一时,阿卡尼相信世界分为光明与黑暗两个世界,彼此间存在联络之门。有记载称阿卡尼曾打开两个世界间的门,使一些魔物肆虐世间,随后阿卡尼神秘灭亡。20世纪60年代,政府成立超自然研究部门713局,委派莱昂内尔•哈金斯博士(Matthew Walker 饰)研究阿卡尼文明,但他的研究随后被推翻。哈金斯躲在一个小岛,对儿童进行残酷的秘密试验,使他们和魔物融为一体。 21世纪初,各地接连发生儿童失踪案件,超自然现象调查员爱德华•卡比(Christian Slater 饰)受命前往小岛调查,但他才出机场,便遭到神秘之人的攻击。这一切注定他的旅程艰险无比……Based on a guy who's travels in the dark fighting aliens and well works with a group called 713 also not just Edward is a experiment subject and has a journey with his ex girlfriend to save the earth from demons from hell while working with a whole crap load of government agents say about 100 and they all die and so this sums up the entire movie also ends with how him and his ex walk through the city and everyone's gone and it's happening to the earth also Edwards replacement one of the main characters sacrifices himself by blowing up a gate to hell but in the end shows him recovering from the explosion just fine