Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, the Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions....

　　Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film ...

　　马戏团演员帕比与士兵倍明朗哥自战场回归后发现他们的家己面目全非，二人于是结伴而行；他们在帕比所偷的脚踏车上发现珠宝，与犹太麦面包师的女儿艾丝特快乐地生活在一起，艾丝特产下一女后，却因帕比所偷的珠宝而被窃贼所杀，帕与倍也因私藏珠宝而下狱……...

因为目睹了一场谋杀案，瑞秋（凯莉·麦吉利斯 Kelly McGillis 饰）和儿子山姆（卢卡斯·哈斯 Lukas Haas 饰）的平静生活被彻底打破。接到报案的约翰警长（哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰）匆匆赶来，没想到被指认的凶手不是别人，正是同为警探的迈克菲（丹尼·格洛弗 Danny Glover 饰）。约翰将这一消息报告给了上司保罗（约瑟夫·索默 Josef Sommer 饰）...