A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, kills and mutilates young women and local models on the streets of New York City.

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.