A detective is hired by a rich woman to find her runaway step-sister. With the help of a fun-loving hitchhiker, he traces the girl to the remote town of Lost Lake, where she seems to be involved with a mysterious cult. But the cult closes ranks, and the townspeople don't like strangers asking questions...

After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a professional assassin. He now seeks revenge on all those who participated in sentencing him to death.

A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.