The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armored car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
本片是《从地心窜出》系列的前传,前三集中肆虐人间的巨型怪物最早出现在此,位于内华达的一座盛产银矿的小镇,由于矿工纷纷离奇死亡,很快就成为空城,具有贵族身分的加默拥有当地的采矿权,雇用了外籍佣兵凯利来和这群怪物打交道,以免断了自己的财路,不过在镇上肆虐 的并非人类,加默和镇上幸存的镇民必须全副武装,以和这些巨型怪物開始了正面对决...
该片根据伊恩·麦克尤恩的同名小说改编,故事讲述原本幸福生活着的儿童文学作家斯蒂芬·刘易斯,因女儿的走失,自己消极度日,变得和妻子渐行渐远。直到第二个孩子的降临才逐渐化解了夫妻隔阂。