As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss

一對夫妻在他們的土地里挖掘出一座古墓后，圍繞著一條被詛咒的項鏈和一個充滿復(fù)仇之心的鬼魂，發(fā)生了一連串恐怖事件……

　　燥熱枯燥的長途旅行，怪物卡車司機“銹釘”（肯·科齊格 Ken Kirzinger 飾）的血腥旅程仍未結(jié)束，17號公路上布滿殘肢斷體，娛樂著他的邪惡趣味。某個平凡的路邊小餐館，奧斯汀（Gianpaolo Venuta 飾）、米克（Ben Hollingsworth 飾）、愛麗莎（Leela Savasta 飾）、鮑比（Jake Manley 飾）和茱爾（Kirsten Prout 飾）等五個準(zhǔn)備參加公路汽車?yán)惖那嗄昴信谟懻撔熊嚶肪€，他們向鄰桌打聽17號公路存在與否，卻得知了“屠殺小巷”的傳言和警告。　　無所畏懼的年輕人當(dāng)然不信這個邪，他們快意上路，并遭遇“銹釘”的卡車。年輕人仗著汽車性能的優(yōu)勢，恣意戲耍“銹釘”，但卻惹到了一個絕不能隨便招惹的惡魔……

 意大利導(dǎo)演費德里克．費里尼的中期經(jīng)典作《八部半》是其成熟高峰期作品，此后開始走向糜爛而至腐敗，偏于肉欲放縱和自我沉溺，像《費里尼之薩蒂尼康》（六九年）和本片，都是糜爛頹廢的出色力作。本片反映了十八世紀(jì)基督道德不振后的上流腐化放縱，費里尼盡情借題發(fā)揮，展現(xiàn)出精英文藝在人欲橫流下的腐爛情態(tài)。大情人卡薩諾華是在情場屢戰(zhàn)屢勝的“性斗士"，不斷獵艷，還參加造愛競賽。但這大情人苦于人人只重他的性愛能力，不重視他經(jīng)世濟民治國的才學(xué)。而且女人們對他都“有性無愛"，當(dāng)他衰老得失去性魅力之后，就只能把一個機械女人當(dāng)作夢中情人，很可悲可憐。