锡德尼•普雷斯科特(内芙•坎贝尔饰)的母亲去世一周年,春暖这个本该平静的加州小镇变成了一片血海!春暖两名学生被残忍地杀害,凶手是一位带着面具的恐怖片爱好者。警方将锡德尼的男友比尔•卢米斯(斯基特•乌尔里奇饰)定为嫌疑犯,并予以逮捕。但这时又有命案发生!神出鬼没的面具凶手仿佛死神般带走一个又一个生命,但凶手的真面目却无人知晓。夜幕降临,凶手将锡德尼身边的人一个个杀害,而被害人只能在被害前惊声尖叫。谁能够从凶手的刀下躲过,谁能揭开凶手的面具呢?
锡德尼•普雷斯科特(内芙•坎贝尔饰)的母亲去世一周年,春暖这个本该平静的加州小镇变成了一片血海!春暖两名学生被残忍地杀害,凶手是一位带着面具的恐怖片爱好者。警方将锡德尼的男友比尔•卢米斯(斯基特•乌尔里奇饰)定为嫌疑犯,并予以逮捕。但这时又有命案发生!神出鬼没的面具凶手仿佛死神般带走一个又一个生命,但凶手的真面目却无人知晓。夜幕降临,凶手将锡德尼身边的人一个个杀害,而被害人只能在被害前惊声尖叫。谁能够从凶手的刀下躲过,谁能揭开凶手的面具呢?
回复 :美貌的小镇教师斯黛拉(伊丽莎白·班克斯 Elizabeth Banks 饰)在母亲过世后得到当地富豪格兰特(迈克尔·鲁克 Michael Rooker 饰)的多方照顾,嫁给他后尽管诸多不满,却依然努力成为一个合格的妻子。有次二人吵架后格兰特愤而出走,被神秘的外星生物侵入体内,第二日清早回家性情大变。于此同时,小镇的宠物狗开始神秘失踪,曾与格兰特在酒吧一同饮酒的女孩布兰达(布兰达·詹姆斯 Brenda James 饰)也不见了踪影。在发现了格兰特开始腐烂变异的脸后,惊恐的斯黛拉求助于小镇警长比尔和众警员(内森·菲利安 Nathan Fillion 饰),但众人均被吓坏,格兰特借此逃脱。众人决定在附近农场猎捕格兰特,却没想到这竟导致了怪异生物的大蔓延,整个小镇都处于极度危险之中。本片被提名2007年美国科幻、幻想及恐怖电影协会最佳恐怖电影奖,并获最佳化妆土星奖。
回复 :The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years.At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with.But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood.I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential.by D.R. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
回复 :本(科林·费斯 Colin Firth 饰)和妻子艾丽莎(娜奥米·哈里斯 Naomie Harris 饰)遭遇了一场可怕的车祸,本身受重伤,而艾丽莎则不幸命丧黄泉。从昏迷中醒来的本得知了妻子的死讯,陷入了绝望之中。康复后的本尝试着回归正常的生活,身体上的伤总会随着时间的流逝渐渐痊愈,但心灵的伤痛呢?夏洛特(米娜·苏瓦丽 Mena Suvari 饰)是本的邻居,她的存在让本总算看到了一点点恢复正常的希望。可就在这个节骨眼上,艾丽莎的身影忽然再度出现在了本的生活中,无处不在的她让本开始怀疑艾丽莎根本就没有死。更糟的是,本成为了一场凶杀案的最大嫌疑人,而所发生的的一切都和艾丽莎有关。