浙江人才臣（赵军文 饰）与陕西人燕赤霞（赵丹红 饰）邂后金华一古庙就伴。夜深，邻人女子携金元宝忽至才臣床边要与其同床共枕，才臣驱走女子并扔出所留金元宝。次日后东厢兰陵书生主仆二人莫名暴毙。原来此女叫聂小倩（惠娟艳 饰），是一位早年夭亡的少女，尸骨埋于庙旁，夜间以夜叉面目出现，并以色相和金钱引诱生人而食。小倩不忍加害才臣，嘱咐才臣与燕生同眠避祸，日后将其尸骨挖出归葬。燕赤霞乃一炼剑侠士，在夜里他施术击伤一破窗而入的鬼物。才臣不负小倩之托将其尸骨带回重葬，前脚到家，小倩不期而至，母亲对这个来路不明的少女心生疑惑......本片根据《聊斋志异》故事改编。
回复 :在海边一所终日窗帘紧闭的隐秘房子里，一个隐居于此的剧作家终日与他的狗为伴。而这样的宁静突然在一个夜晚被一个逃到此处的年轻女子所打破。她想在此避难，不愿离开。然而黎明降至，另一不期而至的事情改变了一切。
回复 :故事发生在一条名为“海神号”的豪华游轮之上，灯火辉煌的大厅之中，衣着华丽的旅客们怀着激动的心情，等待着新年的到来。一场地震的发生让人们一下子从天堂跌入了地狱，海神号被巨浪掀翻，一时间穿舱内一片鬼哭狼嚎。不顾船长的反对，斯科特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）带领着8名乘客奋力爬向高处，当他们刚刚站定之时，洪水袭来，几乎是在瞬间，他们已经成为了海神号上唯一幸存的九人。斯科特带领着众人开辟出了一条逃生之路，在不断逼近的危险和几次爆发的矛盾之中，他们向着安全地带慢慢靠近着。爆炸的发生封锁了斯科特一行人唯一可以选择的逃生路线，面对着绝望与死亡，他们是否能够紧紧抓住渺茫的希望呢？
回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
