Eve is a Christmas movie fanatic and dreams of having a movie-perfect Christmas with a movie-perfect boyfriend. On Christmas Eve, when Eve and her cynical sister Lacy make wishes to Santa, they wake up in Christmas Town and find themselves trapped inside a Christmas movie where they are the stars. But when things start to go wrong, and Eve's knowledge of all things Christmas movie fails to fix things, Eve and Lacy try to find a way out of the picture-perfect Christmas and back to reality.
Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in hot money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.
在美国的80年代中后期，由于一个连环杀手被逮捕，人类犯罪史上最扭曲、离奇、病态的案件浮出了水面。被捕的杀手霍金斯向警方供认了超过上百起发生在公路上的可怕又残忍的谋杀，还提到了自己扭曲的童年经历和后来认识的同性恋人同伙，以及同伙的妹妹；随着这些认罪的自白，许多当地警方无法破获的悬案和失踪案都有了眉头。但随着这位连环杀手的供述，这个难以置信的病态又扭曲的杀手自白让负责办案的警察也为之震惊！
本片根据亨利·李·卢卡斯的真实故事改编，该片与《杀手的肖像Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) 》和《流浪杀人魔 Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009)》这两部影片一样都改编自同一个案件。影片改了真实事件中的人名，并对案件的部分细节做了修改，但真实还原了杀手被抓后那让人不寒而栗的自白的过程，也算是同类型电影当中值得一看的冷门恐怖片佳作了！
