Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.

After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.