Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.

　　一位年迈的老警察深信在他小镇上被捕的神秘陌生人是无辜的，进而展开的调查就像捅了马蜂窝一样，将永远改变这个镇子。

　　维基解密（Wiki-Leaks）的一份新闻稿揭示了政治家和医疗行业之间的勾结，这些勾结将医疗费用推高给中产阶级一个难以达到的价格。随着有罪方的姓名和地址被释放，一个私刑运动在美国各地兴起。在他父亲与癌症的斗争中失利后，梅森和汤普森和鲍比一起寻求暴力的正义，并一路上寻求财富的希望。猎枪爆炸引发了一系列意想不到的后果，导致小组走上了一条黑暗的道路。

　　California gold rush, late 1800's: A gun slinging bounty hunter (Mortimer) travels deep into the mountains to find a deadly Apache warrior (Brother Wolf) who is wanted by the law. Along the way he passes through a gold mining Town. The miners help direct Mortimer to the Apache and send him on his way.
　　Mortimer enters the forest and begins to track the Apache. Back in town, the miners un-earth an ancient meteor. They use their pick axes to crack it open. A section of the meteor splits apart and spores explode out of it. The spore surround and infect the entire population of the mining camp. They are transformed into ravenous mutants.
　　After a vicious battle against the Apache warrior, Mortimer exits the forest with his prisoner in shackles. They hike back to the mining town to find them selves surrounded by a horde of blood thirsty mutants. Now Mortimer the gun slinger and Brother Wolf the Warrior must join together to survive the mutant hordes. What ensues is a bloodbath of horror for the Dead and the Damned.

　　南北战争爆发后，尼森扮演的南方军官卡弗，带着四个跟班走上了杀人之路，皮尔斯·布鲁斯南饰演的基甸则一路逃窜。双方的战斗从内华达州的洛基雪山开始，一直杀到荒凉的新墨西哥州大沙漠。在这一过程中，卡弗的跟班相继死去，两位主角也被折腾了没有人样……
　　身穿笨重皮衣的基甸窝在雪山上面对火堆取暖，身旁是无精打采的老马和用来保命的来福枪，这哥仨一声不响地倾听着风声，直到卡弗的子弹从基甸的脑袋边上飞过去，才激起了基甸的慌忙逃窜。正当他惊慌失措地向丛林深处跑去时，随后赶到的第二颗子弹还是狠狠钻进了他的左臂。他失去了平衡，踉踉跄跄地从瀑布载了下去……当基甸从刺骨的河水中奋力爬起，用尖刀从血肉中挑出子弹时，一个原始状态下的美国社会，便在这残酷的一幕中表现出来，且向观众抛出了硕大的问号--两人的仇怨因何而起？导演向观众的暗示是：卡弗对基甸的刻骨仇恨，或许正象征了这场内战的爆发根源。