情趣马杀鸡

 预科学校巴顿学院的老师保罗（保罗·吉亚玛提 饰）不太受欢迎，不管是学生、老师还是校长，都不太喜欢他，他们觉得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣诞假期，保罗留在了学校监督无法回家的学生。几天后，只有一个学生留了下来——一个名叫安格斯的15岁捣蛋鬼，他是一个被不良行为破坏的好学生，总是在被开除的边缘试探。与保罗和安格斯一起留下的还有学校厨师长玛丽，一个为特权阶层的儿子们提供服务的非裔美国妇女，她自己的儿子最近在越南失踪了。这三个截然不同的失意者组成了一个奇怪的圣诞家庭，在新英格兰大雪纷飞的两个星期里，分享着不幸经历，并意识到他们中没有人感谢自己的过去。

　　澳大利亚悉尼，新南威尔士正遭受严重的干旱，水资源短缺成为亟待解决的问题。为了应对这一情况，政府决定开发一项水资源循环利用的项目，其中包括将位于悉尼城市下方的一段废弃的铁路隧道加以利用。围绕隧道的改造和难民去向，在社会上引起了巨大争论。虽然沸沸扬扬，但是该废弃隧道的改造计划却戛然而止。与此同时，关于隧道中存在着神秘怪物的传言也愈演愈烈。　　一段Youtube上流传的视频引起了女记者娜塔莎·华纳（贝尔·戴利亚 Bel Deliá 饰）的注意，她联系了几名业内的好友和同事，带着摄像器材前往隧道中一探究竟，恐怖的旅程就此拉开序幕……

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...