Ritual

Chip Davis, Jackson Berkey and the rest of the Mannheim Steamroller ensemble accompany of panel of scientists as they engage in a discussion pondering the existence, expansion and infinite nature of the universe. Against a series of mesmerizing video backdrops and joined by the London Symphony, Davis and company offer a hypnotic soundtrack that blends seamlessly with the enlightening exploration of cosmology, philosophy and the like.

A year after she is brutally raped, Dallas housewife Julie Kenner still can't shake the horror of the attack. She decides to forge a series of separate identities for herself, borrowing the names and birth dates of various strangers.

After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school. He finds lack of authority and interest in the school direction and teacher body; uncontrolled and abusive students in an environment of disrespect and lack of discipline. He becomes close to the arts teacher Louise and to the smart and abused student Joey. When he saves Louise from a sexual assault of the student Davey, Louise and him are sued by Davey's family lawyer; then Davey's girlfriend beats Louise. The upset Walmsley lures, drugs and kidnaps Joey and six troublemakers of his class and brings them to his isolate real estate in Alpine, Texas. When the seven students wake up, they are naked and caged in cages with electric fences. When Walmsley arrives, he advises that his class will begin, and any disrespect or lack of discipline will be duly punished, and shots Joey to make clear his intentions. And the class begins.

A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.