发电俏娇娃

　　外星人侵占了地球，人们被迫逃到地底下的巨型地堡避难。S.U.M.1是一个忠诚的战士，他被送到地面上来拯救幸存者并每天汇报情况。他的任务就是守卫人类的自我防御区不让外星人靠近，然而这每天的例行任务却逐渐成为他的噩梦，令人恐惧的声音在树林里回荡；基地每日都受到频繁的攻击；塔内的电力供应出现故障；修理工却迟迟不出现。他的上司也从未告诉过他有关上一任的事。孤独感与妄想症慢慢侵蚀了他的理智。难道外星人真的埋伏在森林里吗？还是S.U.M.1已经被折磨到精神错乱了？

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

　　Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it's too late.

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.