In the mid 1950´s, a young husband and wife become human guinea pigs for Project Samson, a top-secret experiment exposing them to massive amounts of atomic bomb radiation. But when the couple dies in a shocking "accident", their infant son grows up to be a man whose rage can cause people to suddenly explode into flames. Now the government´s murderous experiment may not be over… and one man´s use of his horrific ´gift´ has only just begun.

Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) co-stars in this explosive thriller co-written and directed by Tobe Hooper, director of the horror classics Poltergeist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.