又一年圣诞节来到，丝视弗兰克·哈灵顿（Ray Wise 饰）带着妻子劳拉（Lin Shaye 饰）、丝视儿子理查德（Mick Cain 饰）、女儿玛丽安（Alexandra Holden 饰）及其男友布莱德（Billy Asher 饰）驱车前往亲戚家度假。夜晚的旅途困顿乏味，弗兰克还险些出了车祸。在极度压抑的情况下，他决定放弃那条走了20年的州际公路，转而奔上从未走过的小路。但是这却是一个糟糕的决定，路上出现的白衣女子和黑色房车将海灵顿一家引向死途……本片荣获2003年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节欧洲奇幻电影银奖和佩格萨斯观众奖、2003年亚洲奇幻电影节评委会奖最佳影片、2003年圣•塞巴斯蒂安恐怖与奇幻电影节观众奖最佳影片。
珍珠果酱乐队
回复 :一个夜晚，美艳而富有的女作家凯瑟琳（莎朗•斯通 Sharon Stone 饰）与某球星狂欢后驾车落入水中，结果该球星死亡而凯瑟琳却安然无恙。警方怀疑这是一起谋杀案，委派精神病医生格拉斯（大卫·莫利塞 David Morrissey饰）对凯瑟琳进行精神鉴定。因为其他原因，凯瑟琳被无罪释放了。但此后她却要求格拉斯对其进行精神治疗，格拉斯也想通过凯瑟琳这个案例完成一篇学术论文。在这个过程中，格拉斯被凯瑟琳的美丽与智慧所吸引，渐渐忘记了医生与病人的原则，陷入了无法自拔的情爱之中。就在这时，他感觉身边的一切都发生了可怕的变化，而这些又都与凯瑟琳有关。他仿佛生活在这个女人所编织的无形的网中。那么他能够逃离这个危险女人的掌控吗？他该如何抉择？
殷悦
回复 :患有狂躁症的方瑾来到了身为心理医生的朋友孙琦的家中，一个名为“空谷幽兰”的郊野别墅。然而她却没有见到孙琦反而是见到了一个自称是孙琦朋友的奇怪男人——家铭。家铭对方瑾很照顾，但这让方瑾起了疑心。家铭煲得一手好汤，在孙琦回来之后，三人围在桌子旁吃饭，这时却又来了一个叫沈傲君的女子。在这期间，沈傲君对方瑾表现出了敌意，而方瑾却发现房间中不断出现一些奇怪的事，但却因此受到了沈傲君的警告。第二天，别墅又来了一位客人，和孙琦一样，同是一名心理医生。当晚，五人围坐在餐座旁，玩起了恐怖推理游戏，这时，方瑾的狂躁症犯了，就在她倒地之时，看到了一个小孩人影蹲在茶几底下，方瑾突然意识到，真的有第六个人存在于别墅之中……
喜多鹫修曼陀罗
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
