新烈火情挑

　　An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

 两位壮汉刑警在调查一起银行劫案时，发现犯罪分子居然个个刀枪不入。根据线索，他们找到一家公司，似乎最近的很多案件都和这家公司的一个秘密实验室有关。后来，此两位硬汉在与犯罪分子的斗争中不幸相继殉职，但这恰好给他们创造了机会——两个人亦成为试验品，他们的尸体即将被一个怀揣着极大阴谋的邪恶博士所利用……然而，哼哼，英勇的人民公安是不会向犯罪集团低头的，you can't keep a good cop dead！

 故事发生在1966年6月6日的上午6时，在这样一个不吉利的时刻，美国大使罗伯特（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）领养了一个男孩并取名戴米（哈维·史蒂芬斯 Harvey Stephens 饰）。随着时间的推移，戴米渐渐长大，一些奇怪事件的接连发生预示着厄运敲响了罗伯特的家门。戴米的保姆莫名自杀后，一个神秘的女人贝洛克（比莉·怀特劳 Billie Whitelaw 饰）毛遂自荐留在了戴米的身边。之后，神父博南（帕特里克·斯偌顿 Patrick Troughton 饰）找到了罗伯特，他告诉罗伯特，戴米是撒旦的孩子，戴米会不择手段完成统治世界的野心。对于神父的话，罗伯特半信半疑，直到博南神父的死讯传来，罗伯特才意识到，事态的发展是多么的糟糕。

　　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...