Dartmoor, 2006. On this vast and desolate moorland stands Long Barrow Maximum Security Prison, home to some of the UK's most dangerous inmates. David Sorrel has just been sentenced to life there following his conviction for murdering his wife and her lover, and has been assigned a cell with old lag Harry Rivers. But prisoners are undergoing a transformation...

Year of the Tsar 2674 AD, and bastard son of the Romanovs NIKOLAI DANTE has bonded with a cyborganic Weapons Crest, an alien combat computer, which allows him to extrude lethal bio-blades...

Mega-City One, 2130 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal. With lawlessness rife, only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. These future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law!

London, 2006. Anthony Elvy is a film journalist growing tired with the ego-massaging circus that pervades the movie business. The son of a once-famous film director, Elvy's formative years were spent on soundstages, to the extent where he makes a point of avoiding on-set interviews, sick of the fake sincerity that surrounds him. But even he can't resist a scoop about a missing and supposed cursed horror movie...