Author Stephen King discusses the various types of horror films and why they are so popular with moviegoers.

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated “accidental” deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger’s plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel’s plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.