The mysterious island village of Balfe is experiencing unexplainable phenomena from grossly oversized sea-life to half-buried bodies in the woods and disfigured Neanderthal-like men. It is up to Dr. Del Shaw (Ian Bannen) and the scientists at Doomwatch headquarters to discover the cause of these horrific mutations

A babysitter is terrorized by the child's father, escaped from an asylum.

When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow’s Gorky Park detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching to the highest political levels.