该剧从形式到内容都具有浓烈的西部风情特色、典型的西部古朴文化特点。剧中形形色色的硬汉、赌徒、土匪、农民、婆姨都是生存在黄土高原贫瘠土地上,背负着沉重的封建枷锁,与命运作顽强的抗争。剧中人物有着鲜明的个性、生动的语言、淳厚的古朴之风,把人间的冷暖、愚昧和狡谲展现得淋漓尽致。。中国早期引进的科幻译制片(其实本质是个僵尸电影。。。)
Two sisters, high school seniors in the early 1980s, awaken one morning to blood red skies and the realization that the human race has been wiped out. It becomes apparant that anyone who was not surrounded by steel when the Earth recently passed through the tail of Haley's comet has been reduced to a pile of red ash (the trace elements of human chemical makeup.) They encounter a rebellious Native American man and take over the air waves at a local radio station in an attempt to get help. Unfortunately, they attract the attention of a group of scientists who knew what the effects of the comet would be. They hid underground in a steel laboratory, but idiotically left the vents open. Now, as various survivors of the comet who were only partially surrounded by steel are decaying into flesh-hungry zombies, the scientists are attempting to come up with a vaccine made of the blood of people who were not infected by the comet. Thus the trio must fight their way past not only roving packs of the cannibalistic dead, but also outsmart a pack of scientists desperate not to become that way themselves.。盖布里尔和埃利亚斯是完全不同的两兄弟。盖布里尔是个潦倒的大学教授,而埃利亚斯是则痴迷于女人。在上课的时候盖布里尔接到个电话,那头传来的是他们的父亲去世的噩耗。在看完他们的父亲去世前的录影带,他们的生活发生了变化。他们得知他们的父亲并不是亲生的。而亲生父亲则居住在奥克尼郡岛。他们出发去了岛上寻找他并遇到了他们真正的家人。但和家人的第一次见面却并不像预想的那样。兄弟俩被困在了岛上的沼泽地,随后遇上了奥克尼郡的市长和他女儿爱伦,艾伦是个神经质的女人,讨厌她的生活、她自己、她父亲以及这个岛。被各种不正常人包围着的兄弟俩发现了他们自己以及亲戚们的真相,一个让他们震惊但能让他们逃出去的真相……。