马克是一位恐怖小说家，春暖为了完成导演要求的剧本，春暖马克决定去一家传说闹鬼的酒店－－帆船酒店。酒店经理恐吓马克不要入住这个房间，但马克满不在乎坚持着自己的选择。在搬进酒店房间后，一件件离奇的超自然现象让马克彻底改变了自己的人生观。大量恐怖惊悚的真实体验为马克的新书着实积累了素材，但问题的关键是，他必须得先走出那个房间。当马克竭尽全力逃离房间后，竟然发现原来自己之前发生了一场意外被送进了医院，在昏迷中，马克做了一个极其真实而可怕的噩梦，在噩梦里马克看到自己自私自利和不堪的人生，并且下定决心从新悔改，出院后的马克，从新追回自己的妻子，并且把父亲从敬老院接出来一起生活， 而且还完成一部恐怖的经典电影剧本。
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 :由于两年前揭发同僚贪污，台北警官黄火土（梁家辉）被上级报复调入冷门的外事组工作，利益也曾连带受损的新同事对他怒言相向，加上妻子清芳（刘若英）受不了他长期不回家要求离婚，黄火土感觉他的世界正在逐渐四分五裂。就在此时，三宗受害者的身份并无关联的震惊了台湾社会的离奇命案发生，法医（杨贵媚）验尸发现他们都是因中一种神秘的黑霉菌产生幻觉而死，因为缺乏此方面的人才，当局从美国请来此种案例的侦办专家凯文莱特（David Morse）协助破案，黄火土重被任用。随着一桩令所有人都目瞪口呆的事实的被发现，一场围绕政治利益与民众利益的斗争也在黄火土和办案伙伴李丰博（戴立忍）及整个警察队伍之间展开。
回复 :《怪屋》是一部BBC.Ch4拍摄的超自然题材迷你剧，由名编剧马克·加蒂斯操刀制作。剧情概要：历史教师Ben（李·恩格里比 饰）在他的花园里发现一个形状怪异的门环，并将其带给博物馆馆长（编剧 马克·加蒂斯 饰）。经馆长鉴定，这是现已不复存在的基普庄园前门上的门环。历史上，基普庄园与巫术有着千丝万缕的联系。而其建造者始终未能育有子嗣与后几任所有者都离奇地惨遭不幸的故事给予这座庄园以诡秘而邪恶的名声……这里到底曾发生过怎样的故事？而这个门环又将给本Ben带来怎样的命运呢？
