主人公是一个叫戴维·曼恩（丹尼斯·韦弗 Dennis Weaver 饰）的中年男人，棒球这天他在空无一人的州际公路上独自驾车。随后一辆大卡车出现了，棒球挡在戴维前面，他毫不客气地超过对方。而后两车在公路上互相超了对方的车，一开始戴维还气冲冲地想超过对方走在前面，后来他却发现大卡车司机像发疯一样想置他于死地。他只好停下来，在路边餐厅整顿一下准备继续上路，发现那辆形如鬼魅的大卡车停在外面，戴维甚至不知道司机是谁。随后大卡车一直追逐着戴维，他想尽办法也甩不掉这辆大卡车，他只好与这辆如影随形的卡车展开决斗……本片是斯皮尔伯格的处女作，在美国获得了艾美奖最佳音效剪辑，斯皮尔伯格也因此片获得了拍摄《大白鲨》的机会。
回复 :After troubled teen Katie is sentenced to house arrest, she falls for an attractive young man named John who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced that there's more than meets the eye with John.
回复 :While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.
回复 :道恩·麦克拉伦（利亚姆·海姆斯沃斯 饰演）一心想与女友（泰莉莎·帕尔墨）逃离这个名为陡案的家乡小镇。当他无意中用摄像机拍下一起谋杀事件后，他决心利用这件事获得高额赏金，然而事情却走向了相反的方向，他也被卷入到当地警长（约翰·马尔科维奇 饰演）的调查之中。