地獄空蕩蕩，惡魔在人間。十五年前，一群身份各異的罪惡權貴將都馬市染黑成一座“地獄島”，高中生曉笛慘遭權貴凌辱致死；十五年后，這些背后操盤者接連慘死，死狀慘烈。曾目睹十五年前命案的方天陽與警官方正楠深入調查，驚覺這樁匿名殺人案不只是單純的復仇，更是一場遲到的控訴。樁樁命案，層層黑幕，那張權力、金錢、欲望織就的黑色秘網背后究竟藏著多少不為人知的罪孽？

　　夜深人靜之時，年輕女子瑞切爾（Anessa Ramsey 飾）和艾莉莎（Hannah Bryan 飾）突然遭到神秘之人的襲擊和綁架。當她們清醒過來后，發現自己正被綁在一座谷倉中，戴著面具的恐怖男子為她們舉行邪氣逼人的儀式。另一方面，受債務困擾的男人本（AJ Bowen 飾）聯合女友艾米（卡瑟琳·蘭道夫 Katherine Randolph 飾）、弟弟湯米（安德魯·布瑞蘭 Andrew Breland 飾）以及陌生男人保羅（Sonny Marinelli 飾）策劃綁架了富有商人瑞恩·海登（詹姆斯·巴茲 James Bartz 飾）的女兒，并索取高達兩百萬美元的贖金。　　正當本和保羅眾人為了贖金起整治的時候，死里逃生的瑞切爾突然出現，隨之而來的還有殘忍的春之祭殺人魔……

洛杉磯警探喬瑟夫（克萊格·謝菲爾 飾）是個標準敗類，嗑藥嗑得比誰都勤快，調查命案不忘順手牽羊，更枉顧家中妻小，專搞迷人可愛的阻街女郎。一宗幼童謀殺案現場，喬瑟夫撿回一只受過詛咒的奇異盒子，打開后怪事不斷一樁接一樁：昨夜搞上的妓女意外身亡，他瞬間成為頭號嫌疑犯；一連串似幻似真的恐怖體驗更不斷尾隨，無臉怪人四處追殺人群，《養鬼吃人》系列當家猛鬼－針頭鬼（Pinhead）也重出江湖，一個頭兩個大的喬瑟夫該如何解決這謎一般的虛實夢魘？本片改編自克里夫巴克（Clive Barker）恐怖小說「受地獄羈絆之心」The Hellbound Heart，這顆壞心腸的主人正是故事男主角喬瑟夫，身為警察的他自身行為不檢點也罷，涉嫌謀殺難以脫罪的他竟然嫁禍好同事，善惡終有報，惡徒喬瑟夫果然陷入萬劫不復的魔鬼夢魘，活著比死更痛苦。

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...