摄影师杰弗里斯（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 饰）因站在赛车道中间拍摄，伙伴断了左腿，伙伴只得在家静养七周。除了保险公司的护士斯特拉（西尔玛·里特 饰）和女友丽莎·卡罗尔·弗里蒙特（格雷斯·凯利 饰）每日前来照料，百无聊赖的杰弗里斯只能在窗前闲看邻居们的日常生活以打发时间。对面公寓的二楼住着人造珠宝推销员拉尔斯·托瓦尔德（雷蒙德·伯尔 饰）及妻子安娜（艾琳·温斯顿 饰），夫妻之间争吵不断。一个雨夜，杰弗里斯看到拉尔斯提着箱子外出数次。次日，杰弗里斯又看到拉尔斯用报纸包裹一把锯和一把刀。杰弗里斯起了疑心，他怀疑拉尔斯杀害了安娜并分尸抛弃。然而，杰弗里斯并未目击案发过程，也未见到尸体。那么真相究竟如何呢？杰弗里斯的推测只是他的臆想吗？为了证实他的推测，杰弗里斯要如何寻找证据呢？
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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 :南唐寒阳公主（陈嘉敏 饰）在含恨而死之后，假借江南第一美女西门燕（徐千京 饰）的肉身幻化成妖，通过魅惑人间男子来吸食阳气，企图修炼成仙。一次偶然中，书生王子玉（丁汇宇 饰）邂逅了女妖，禁不住她的诱惑，抛弃了糟糠之妻陈英（殷果儿 饰）。陈英意外的目睹了西门燕的真面目，意识到丈夫是被妖魔所惑，如果继续这样下去，将会有性命之忧。于是，陈英请来了驱魔道长成瓮（叶豪 饰）和他的徒弟小包子（刘小奇 饰），希望他们能够斩妖除魔，将丈夫从水深火热之中解救出来。就这样，一场人妖之间的大战即将拉开序幕。
