A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.

The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.

A mute woman finds herself at the center of a series of murders in the mountains of Spain, which police suspect are being committed by a drug-addled Satanist.

Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.

A young embalmer who recently lost his girlfriend digs her grave and brings her body to his family villa to keep her with him forever, with help from a strange woman who lives with him. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.

An invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.

In the pre-civil war American south, Emanuelle, a plantation owner's daughter, while outwardly a dainty southern belle, brutally abuses the slaves in her charge. When her fiance is bitten by a snake, he falls for Emanuelle's beautiful African-American maid who's kindness and skill saved his life. Insanely jealous, Emanuelle continues her sadistic behaviour towards her charges, and when her fiance announces he plans to wed the maid, Emanuelle "gives" her to her even more brutal hired men, and her fiance is powerless to stop them. Can Emanuelle learn an important lesson in love before it's too late for everyone?

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

A mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.