故事设定在闷热难耐的亚特兰大。主人公安娜（泰莎·汤普森 饰）如幽灵般深居简出，逐渐淡出朋友圈和新闻主播的职业轨道。然而当偶然听闻达洛尼加——那个养育她的沉寂小镇——发生谋杀案时，她沉寂的生命骤然重燃，立即投身案件追寻真相。杰克·哈珀警探（乔·博恩瑟 饰）却对她的介入异常怀疑，将她列为自身调查的焦点。同一个故事总有他的版本与她的版本——这意味着总有人在说谎。

少女布里切特（瑞贝卡·布兰迪斯RebekahBrandes饰）是一家午夜电影院的工作人员，当晚，她所在的影院将要放映一部七十年代的老片《TheDarkBeneath》。围绕这部影片曾发生过多起死亡惨案，它也因此被奉为邪典恐怖片中的圭臬。布里切特的男友乔什（DanielBonjour饰）、好友马里奥（GregCirulnick饰）、萨曼莎（MandellMaughan饰）和苏利（MichaelSchwartz饰）相约来此观看，一同前来的还有侦探贝隆斯（JonBriddell饰），就在不久前，影片的主创之一拉德福德从精神病院神秘失踪，贝隆斯相信拉德福德会在这里出现。诡异的电影情节让布里切特隐隐感到不安，然而一场模糊了现实和电影界线的杀戮正慢慢向他们袭来……本片荣获2008年芝加哥恐怖电影节最佳摄影和最佳影片奖。

　　Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her daughter, 15-year-old Samantha. But when a powerful solar flare strikes her flight home, killing the pilot, knocking out the co-pilot and frying all the electronic systems on the plane, it looks like she may not get there. As panic sets in among the passengers, Kate works with flight attendant Jake to manage the growing chaos and tension on the plane as she tries to keep 30,000 tons of steel hurtling through the air at 500 miles per hour. Flying blind, Kate tries to find a way to communicate with air traffic control - one way or another, this plane is coming down. With the passengers' lives on the line, Kate will have to find a way to land safely... or never see her daughter again.