A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".

A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.

The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.