Karla, profite d'un après-midi dans un parc d'attraction en compagnie de son fils lorsque celui-ci disparait subitement. En alerte, elle repère finalement des inconnus le faire monter de force dans leur voiture. Karla réalise à cet instant que sans réaction de sa part, elle pourrait ne jamais revoir son enfant. Pas le temps d'hésiter, elle se lance à la poursuite des ravisseurs et ne reculera devant rien pour le sauver.
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
An agent from a distant planet has been sent to earth to ship large quantities of blood to his world, where a plague is ravaging the populace. He comes equipped with an interstellar matter transmitter, telepathic mind-control powers, and deathray-shooting eyes. Because he is also affected by the blood disease, he gains control of the town's physician and has him place a nurse at his disposal, while he collects live humans for fresh blood; but gains the nurse's suspicions, along with those of her boyfriend - a town police officer.
Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.