click me - Astronaut Steve West is the only survivor of a mission to Saturn, returning to Earth after being exposed to an unknown form of cosmic radiation near Saturn's rings. While being kept under observation in a hospital, his health rapidly degenerates, and his flesh begins to literally melt off of his body. Growing increasingly insane, he escapes the hospital and discovers that the only way to slow the progress of his condition is to consume the flesh of other human beings which oddly increases his strength as well. This puts him at odds with local authorities, some of whom want to bring him back with the understanding that they will try to cure him, and others who simply want him dead before he can take any more innocent lives.