某恐怖片剪辑师，因观看太多恐怖电影而最终导致精神崩溃，自杀身亡。摄制组病急乱投医，连忙找来艺术片剪辑师艾德华•史文森（Johan Rudebeck 约翰•路德贝克 饰）前来救场。艾德华是一个工作严谨、经验老道且温文尔雅的电影工作者，他的任务是接替前任剪辑师将影片中几个极度血腥的镜头剪掉，以使该片顺利上映。 然而随着工作的进行，艾德华的举止开始变得怪异起来。头天晚上收拾好的房间第二天就变得乱七八糟，他的眼前也经常出现断肉残肢的恐怖画面，似乎一切正朝着恐怖疯狂的方向发展……Eddie Tor Swenson is a mild-mannered film editor with a wife, child, and a comfortable job editing art and drama films for a major studio. Following the suicide of their editor, heartless studio exec Sam Campbell transfers Ed to his department, the Splatter & Gore Department, to finish what the original editor was doing: editing the highly profitable but extremely violent Loose Limbs series of slashers. Sam allows Ed the use of his secluded country cottage so Ed can go about his work undisturbed, or so he thinks. The seclusion and the constant exposure to the violent nature and content of the films he's editing start to drive Ed insane. What begins as hallucinations leads to Ed's darker, murderous side emerging, and it puts the lives of everyone around him in danger: whether it be the film-buff studio warehouse man, or even Ed's family...
