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　　1990年，一艘巨大的飞船出现在地球上空，人们惶恐不安，却又分外好奇。经过一段时间紧张的等待，外星飞船始终没有动静。人类终于小心翼翼靠近它，强行走进舱内，结果发现了不计其数的外星人。他们形容丑陋，宛如虾子，而且健康状况极差，虚弱无力。原来这是一群来自外星的难民，他们最终被地球人接纳，并隔离在南非约翰内斯堡的一片区域内生活，此地名为“第九区”。经过长达20年的繁衍，外星难民的数量扩张至180万之多，且和周边人类的矛盾冲突不断，越来越多的人类呼吁将“大虾”赶出地球。　　MNU（列国同盟组织）经过磋商，决定将外星难民迁移到更为偏远的区域。MNU外星事务部门的特工威库斯（Sharlto Copley 饰）专门负责搬迁工作。威库斯在动员过程中傲慢随意，与当地居民冲突频频。最终，他为自己的行为付出代价，外星人的神秘流体将其感染，威库斯慢慢变成了外星人的模样……

　　西部荒野，住着麦克林夫妇——伊萨克（阿什利·祖克曼 Ashley Zukerman 饰）和莉兹（凯特琳·杰拉德 Caitlin Gerard 饰）。这里条件艰苦，环境恶劣，人烟稀少，野兽横行。莫大的孤寂令莉兹时常警惕地环视四周，防备一切可能的危险。某天，哈普尔夫妇——吉迪恩（迪伦·麦蒂 Dylan McTee 饰）和艾玛（茱莉亚·古丹妮·泰勒斯 Julia Goldani Telles 饰）搬到了麦克林家附近，成为他们的邻居。两家人很快就成了好朋友，特别是莉兹有了艾玛这个好姐妹，似乎心理也正常了许多。　　好景不长，某晚艾玛的情况变得很糟糕，她担心神秘的存在将危及她的孩子。荒野大风卷起，乌云密布……

　　During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' . Written by Stewart M. Clamen

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...