成片丹尼在生日当天一早只身驾车出游,他以快乐的心情重新规划自己的新生活,想让自己往后的日子过得更丰富,多彩多姿.突然之间,他撞车身亡,醒来时已进入阴界,这里的一切,对他而言陌生又可怕,但他别无选择,必须在阴界重新开始……
成片丹尼在生日当天一早只身驾车出游,他以快乐的心情重新规划自己的新生活,想让自己往后的日子过得更丰富,多彩多姿.突然之间,他撞车身亡,醒来时已进入阴界,这里的一切,对他而言陌生又可怕,但他别无选择,必须在阴界重新开始……
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 :故事聚焦一位叫丽贝卡的年轻女子,尽管离家多年,她仍然存有童年阴ddd。在开关灯的时候,她从来分不清什么是现实、什么是虚假。现在她的弟弟马丁正在经历着与她过去相同的恐怖事件。一个可怕的恶灵实体再度出现,威胁着他们的生活。不过这一次,丽贝卡比任何一次都要接近真相。
回复 :阴冷诡异的半岛医院,夜深人静时分,灯光闪烁昏暗,在该医院供职的马护士(杨青 饰)意外惨死电梯间,掀开了一连串恐怖和诡异事件的序幕。院长林思远的儿子林飞(蓝正龙 饰)英俊帅气,早年在国外求学,回国后在半岛医院外科担任医生,并与美丽的女护士白洁(周秀娜 饰)相恋,既让人羡慕又遭人忌恨。外科张主任(罗伯特琳 饰)因论文涉嫌剽窃保守苛责,他怀疑林飞暗中使坏,不久自己也如马护士一般落入了本不存在的地下第十八层,走出电梯后他精神失常,坠楼而亡。曾与之争吵的林飞自然受到怀疑,而时刻逡巡在医院内的鬼影搅动着所有人的神经。伴随死亡,真相逐渐揭开……本片根据网络小说《地下十八层》改编。