Cinc històries de terror creades per Stephen King, emmarcades dins de les pàgines d'un còmic que un insensible pare li ha llençat el fill a les escombraries.
Jimmy està aturat, divorciat i no té un duro, Clyde va perdre un braç a la guerra de l'Iraq i ara treballa de cambrer en un antre, i Mellie és una perruquera obsessionada amb els cotxes, tots tres són germans i estan entestats a burlar una suposada maledicció familiar. Per això robaran la càmera cuirassada del circuit de carreres Charlotte Motor Speedway, durant la celebració de la cursa Coca-Cola 600 a Carolina del Nord. Per poder dur a terme el pla necessitaran un expert en demolicions, Joe Bang. L'únic petit inconvenient és que és a la presó.
L'any 2035, el condemnat James Cole es proposa de mala gana per ser enviat en el temps per descobrir l'origen d'un virus mortal que va acabar amb gairebé tota la població de la terra i va obligar els supervivents a entrar en comunitats subterrànies. Però quan Cole és enviat per error al 1990 en lloc del 1996, és arrestat i tancat en un hospital psiquiàtric. Allà coneix la psiquiatra Dra. Kathryn Railly i el pacient Jeffrey Goines, fill d'un famós expert en virus, que pot tenir la clau del misteriós grup canalla, l'Exèrcit dels 12 Micos, que es creu que és el responsable de desencadenar la malaltia assassina.
Detective Klaski investigates the death and mutilation of three men and soon crosses paths with Remy, an entomologist. Soon, he discovers that she is being stalked by a giant shape-shifting insect who is bent on taking over New York.
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Una terrible epidèmia transmesa per escarabats fa estralls a Manhattan, diversos milers de nens estan contaminats i condemnats. Una acció química és impossible per la resistència d'aquests insectes, l'únic mitjà és trobar una arma biològica. La sola esperança per Nova York és d'apel·lar a una brillant entomologista i genetista: la doctora Susan Tyler.
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.
After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by a lethal species of large cockroach. After some of the town's inhabitants are killed, the mayor enlists the help of eccentric pest exterminator General George S. Merlin in order to prevent further harm to the local dwellers.
A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season.
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
A young pilot narrowly escapes the destruction of her home in a stolen ship, only to be followed by the colossal cockroach responsible.
My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood.
Caught between a potentially predatory neighbour and her own escalating paranoia, an isolated young woman slides along the razor’s edge of sanity as she imagines who or what might be watching her through the walls.
A humorous short documentary which features interviews with three zealous New York City roach-haters who demonstrate their own extermination techniques and recount - in hilarious detail - their own personal experiences with cockroaches. Includes an original musical composition lamenting the presence of this pesty insect in urban life