楚其被熔毁之后八年，紫衣玩具公司为打开销路考虑再度推出“好家伙”公仔，紫衣他们将当年楚其的残骸回收，再度制作使其复活，获得重生的楚其为了完成灵魂转移，将玩具公司总裁杀死后消失于夜色。安迪（Justin Whalin 饰）经历了八年收养生活，此时来到一所军校就读，当年楚其留给他的恐怖回忆仍然挥之不去，而在学校中应付严苛的助理上校谢尔顿（Travis Fine 饰）亦并不轻松。楚其将自己邮寄到军校以寻找安迪，不料却被小学员二等兵泰勒占为已有，楚其认为自己的身体获得新生，可以摆脱必须占有安迪身体的宿命，随即把自己的秘密告知泰勒，并计划夺走泰勒的肉身。安迪不能坐视同侪受害，再度与楚其展开抗争……
回复 :辽阔的西部草原住着一位父亲和他的三个儿子——父亲是退了休的骑兵上校，三个儿子个性鲜明：大儿子艾尔弗莱德（艾丹•奎因 Aidan Quinn 饰）忠厚老实，二儿子特里斯坦（布拉德•皮特 Brad Pitt 饰）狂放不羁，最小的儿子塞缪尔（亨瑞•托马斯Henry Thomas饰）温文尔雅。 父子在大草原的生活随着塞缪尔未婚妻苏珊娜（朱莉娅•奥蒙德 Julia Ormond 饰）的到来而改变。苏珊娜年轻漂亮，给艾尔弗莱德带来了内心的震动。他暗恋她，然而苏珊娜心里却不由自主的迷恋上豪放粗犷的特里斯坦。出于道德的坚守，他们一直压抑着内心的感情。 直到塞缪尔壮烈牺牲在前线，事情有了变化。特里斯坦非常爱戴哥哥，无法面对已经爱上苏珊娜的现实，于是离家出走。而苏珊娜万念俱灰，答应嫁给了艾尔弗莱德，而特里斯坦在草原之外也已结婚生子。事情好像趋于了平静，但特里斯坦妻子的亡故又令事情有了波澜。
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 :故事发生在一座小镇的医院内。一名警官将一位伤员送进医院后，一群身份不明的神秘人包围了医院。宗教？黑帮？恐怖组织？在知晓这群人的身份之前，一场大屠杀已经展开。
