The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
1982年冬天，挪威科考队的一架直升机突然打破了南极大陆的平静，直升机疯狂的追逐一只雪橇犬，最后坠毁在美国科考营地的附近。美国科考队员对挪威考察队近期人员骤减的情况有所耳闻，于是飞行员麦克（Kurt Russell 饰）与众人赶赴挪威营地，结果看到的是一地破败中四处散落着奇怪的尸体，并有证据表明挪威人得到了某种冰封状态中的生物。医生布莱尔（Wilford Brimley 饰）研究了尸体的变异却无法破解成因。当晚，犬笼中的狗遭到袭击并发生了变异，一种不可知的生物正在这孤寂的南极大陆威胁着科考队员们的生命…… 本片翻拍自1951年由霍华德•霍克斯指导的《The Thing From Another World》。
核子战争浩劫一直是人类社会挥之不去的阴影，万一在哪一天真的爆发了核战，那将会是什么景象呢？这部尼古拉斯．迈耶导演的电视电影就是根据这种推测拍成的作品，用写实手法刻划美国堪萨斯州劳伦斯市发生核弹爆炸后的各种景况，从而探讨外在世界的变化和人性的内在演变，主题具省思意识，在1983年美国首播时曾造成极大轰动。几位主要演员：贾森．罗巴兹、乔拜兹．威廉斯、史蒂夫．加顿伯格、约翰．李斯可、埃米．马迪根等均有紧扣人心的精彩演出。
少女科学家珊曼莎是地球经历末世浩劫后的幸存者之一。她并未随着他人弃守家园，反而留在地球，并致力寻找让人类生存下去的方法。 在最后一艘宇宙飞船开往遥远人类太空殖民地之际，她留守的决心因为另一位幸存者麦卡的到来而动摇。她必须决定要与麦卡一起出发到人类避难之所开展新生活，还是继续留下来保卫地球。
天才科学家瓦西（拉吉尼坎塔 Rajnikanth 饰）醉心于设计一款智能机器人，投入了大量精力和感情，仿照自己的外形，教与了机器人各种技能，带他在身边使他能够尽快的适应社会，并且命名它为“七弟”（拉吉尼坎塔 Rajnikanth 饰）。因为废寝忘食，忙于工作疏忽了女友sana（艾西瓦娅•雷 Aishwarya Rai 饰），为了哄女友开心，答应了女友让七弟陪自己期末复习的要求。一开始七弟闹出了许多笑话，但随着时间推移全能机器人七弟开始在生活的每个方面展现出自己过人的才能，和sana的相处，让他产生了人的情愫，并逐渐爱上了她。爱情的嫉妒心让瓦西和七弟的感情产生了缝隙，瓦西的老师趁机利用这一点开始怂恿七弟，在其体内插入了使七弟变成一台杀人工具的病毒芯片。源源不断的七弟机器人产生，世界陷入一片混乱。科学家瓦西和军方联手，开始了一场拯救原来那个善良的七弟的战斗。 该影片耗资约16.5亿卢比（约3500万美元），为宝莱坞史上的最贵电影。这部电影也创下了印度电影历史上的多个“第一”。
