While the hot rodders and motorcyclists are having a rock-and-roll beach party, a barrel of radioactive material is unloaded from a passing ship, plunges to the bottom and splits against a jagged rock. A black liquid oozes out and covers a shapeless mass on the ocean floor, which suddenly moves and becomes an encrusted vicious monster. Soon there are several monsters and they must have human blood to survive. Tina is the first victim, and football hero Hank Green and airhead Elaine Gavin enlist the aid of her science-professor father, Dr. Gavin, to solve and capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on twenty teen-agers at a slumber party nor the killing of three girl motorists, Dr. Gavin finds an arm lost by one of the monsters and discovers that only sodium will destroy the monsters whose composition is mostly water. Can they gather enough salt in southern California to put an end to this horror本片取材自文学著作《坎特伯雷故事集》，影片则在原著众多独立的小故事中选取八段故事，以短小精悍、赤裸露骨的叙事风格，反映了中世纪英国的社会百态。这部强调性爱作为反抗宗教束缚、争取人性自由武器的电影，逼真的刻画了一个个迥然不同的众生相，穷奢极欲的城主，专营告密敲诈的小人，故弄玄虚勾引邻家少妇的学生，放荡荒淫的女财主，以及生活在社会底层的小无赖等等。 由意大利著名导演皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼执导的影片《坎特伯雷故事集》，改编自十四世纪英国诗人杰弗雷·乔叟的同名诗体小说集。导演帕索里尼亲自扮演乔叟。本片是帕索里尼“生命三部曲”的中第二部，另外两部分别为《十日谈》和《一千零一夜》。影片荣获1972年第22届柏林国际电影节金熊奖。五十年代的南非，正是种族隔离制度执行时期。影片讲述在这样特别的时代下，妇女米里亚姆（丽莎·蕾 Lisa Ray饰）与妇女阿米拉（茜多·塞丝 Sheetal Sheth饰）之间的特别情感。米里亚姆的婚姻生活并不幸福，她发现丈夫与其大嫂偷情，唯有隐忍。直到一身牛仔打扮的阿米拉出现在她压抑恪守的生活中，两个美丽的女人一见钟情。拥有反抗精神的阿米拉是坚决反对种族隔离制度的人，这也正是吸引米里亚姆的地方。两个女人之间这微妙而细腻的情感，都在指尖的每一次轻佻中，在眼神的每一次凝视里。她们超越的不仅是性别的屏障，还有种族的阻隔。 本片由导演谢米姆·萨尔弗根据自己创作的同名小说改编拍摄而成。
