Handlingen er lagt til den lille kystbyen Amity. Det har gått fire år siden en stor hvithai herjet i området, og stedet har ikke helt klart å gjenvinne sin tidligere popularitet blant turistene. Men nå er det bygget en rekke nye hoteller og sommerturismen begynner å blomstre igjen. Plutselig begynner mennesker å forsvinne igjen. Først forsvinner to fritidsdykkere, deretter forsvinner ei jente på vannski og båtføreren omkommer på uforklarlig vis.
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
A tortured ex-Negotiator, once pride of the Boston Police Department is taken hostage in his home. A psychological confrontation takes place while the kidnappers demand that he completes a mysterious mission for them.
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply.