The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

"Some things won't stay down... even after they die." A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

"A duel is about to begin between a man, a truck, and an open road. Where a simple battle of wits is now a matter of life and death." A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.

"Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick." A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

"Life is waiting." An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.