青年医生（林伟图）发现所有身患怪病的病人均是中了降头，但好友（狄龙）不信妖邪之说，其妻（恬妮）更以身相试，却被施以「死降」，如果无法破解，二十四小时后便会身亡……本片由科幻小说大师倪匡执笔编剧，资深导演何梦华执导。狄龙一改古装侠士形象，首次演出时装恐怖片，更是难得一见。

1，因驾驶失误，富商爱德华（Bruce Payne 饰）的妻子爱玛（Denice D. Lewis 饰）不幸死于车祸，极度伤心和内疚的爱德华通过《死亡之书》的帮助，使爱玛复活。然而事情的发展却出乎他的意料……2，疯狂科学家迈登博士（David Warner 饰）躲在寒冷的实验室里，潜心进行他的长寿研究。百年的岁月流逝，他和女助手日久生情，然一场突如其来的火灾摧毁了一切……3，夫妻警察在追捕罪犯时走失，莎拉（Signy Coleman 饰）为寻找丈夫保罗（Obba Babatundé 饰）走入一间布满残肢断体的恐怖房间，她的噩梦从此开始……本片根据魔幻小说的创始人美国作家霍华德•菲利浦•勒夫卡夫特的作品《死亡之书》中的几则短篇故事改编，并荣获1994年意大利罗马奇幻电影节最佳特效奖、1994年葡萄牙奇幻电影节国际奇幻电影奖最佳特效奖。

患有阿尔茨海默症的文姬奶奶，目睹了孙女的车祸现场，为了找出肇事逃逸者，文姬努力对抗病症回忆案发细节，和儿子一同踏上了逗趣又温情的追凶之路。

Semiotics of the Kitchen adopts the form of a parodic cooking demonstration in which, Rosler states, "An anti-Julia Child replaces the domesticated 'meaning' of tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration." In this performance-based work, a static camera is focused on a woman in a kitchen. On a counter before her are a variety of utensils, each of which she picks up, names and proceeds to demonstrate, but with gestures that depart from the normal uses of the tool. In an ironic grammatology of sound and gesture, the woman and her implements enter and transgress the familiar system of everyday kitchen meanings — the securely understood signs of domestic industry and food production erupt into anger and violence. In this alphabet of kitchen implements, states Rosler, "when the woman speaks, she names her own oppression."