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四对青人男女正准备出席一个舞会，流氓途中误闯进一间阴森大屋，流氓还引出了鬼王。鬼王带领丧尸四出杀戮，四对男女遇害后亦变成丧尸，残杀同类。一个美丽少女与鬼王同归于尽，怎料鬼王死后复活，魔力更上一层……
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四对青人男女正准备出席一个舞会，流氓途中误闯进一间阴森大屋，流氓还引出了鬼王。鬼王带领丧尸四出杀戮，四对男女遇害后亦变成丧尸，残杀同类。一个美丽少女与鬼王同归于尽，怎料鬼王死后复活，魔力更上一层……
回复 :四个朋友斯科特（布莱恩·哈利塞 Brian Hallisay 饰）、卡特（琦普·帕杜 Kip Pardue 饰）、贾斯汀和迈克相约，离开他们乏味或者控制欲旺盛的女友，结伴前往拉斯维加斯，预备开始一场猎艳消遣之旅。赌场中，两名女郎向四人发出邀请，令他们参与了一处荒僻建筑物中的私密狂野派对，他们玩得好不尽兴，岂料当晚迈克失踪，次日焦急的朋友们通过昨夜女郎留下的地址寻找迈克的下落，结果被卷入了一场猎杀游戏。原来有一支秘密的猎人俱乐部，在赌城中捕获游客，供会员们杀害与赌博。斯科特等人沦为猎物，等待他们的将是无情的残杀，而这几位朋友之中，有一位竟然也是俱乐部会员……
回复 :本片根据亨利·詹姆斯的小说《螺丝在拧紧》改编而成。19世纪末，美丽的女教师吉登斯小姐（黛博拉·寇儿Deborah Kerr 饰）来到乡下庄园照顾雇主的侄女弗洛拉（帕米拉·弗兰克林Pamela Franklin 饰）和侄子迈尔斯（马丁·史蒂芬斯 Martin Stephens 饰）。不久，吉登斯小姐发现自己常看到奇怪的影像，仿佛房子被鬼魂纠缠，孩子们也被魔鬼附体，说出或做出过分成熟诡异的话语或行动。管家格罗斯太太（麦戈斯·吉肯斯 Megs Jenkins 饰）向她透露，这一切可能与已故的前家庭教师及总管的地下恋情有关。吉登斯小姐不顾一切想将孩子们从魔鬼的掌控中营救出来，但她所看到的鬼影是否可能只是她自己的幻觉呢？本片获法国嘎纳电影节金棕榈奖提名，并获英国电影电视协会最佳英国电影和最佳电影两项提名。
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
