精神病院一场惨烈的大火，腋下令无数人丧生祸害，腋下妮儿·史威特（阿什丽·贝尔 Ashley Bell 饰）作为唯一的幸存者活存于世。这一日，没有任何知觉的妮儿突然醒来，她已经忘记前几个月发生的事情，只依稀残留对恶魔的恐怖记忆。弗兰克·默勒（缪斯·沃森 Muse Watson 饰）将其带回自己开办的创伤少女关怀机构，希望通过科学的方法帮助妮儿远离邪教的影响，找回健康、正常的人生。在弗兰克的帮助下，妮儿尝试相信所谓的超自然都只不过是幻想而已，她在此与美丽女孩格温（朱莉娅·加纳 Julia Garner 饰）结为好友，也与名叫克里斯的男孩（Spencer Treat Clark 饰）互生好感。然而恶魔并未忘记它唾手可得的猎物，身处阳光下的渐渐被彻骨寒冷的恐怖阴影所覆盖……
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 :Radio astronomers discover a mysterious signal in the deep sea that could be contact with extraterrestrials. After several terrifying manifestations threaten their beliefs, the team must fight to survive the ultimate evil.
回复 :The life of the writers of a television program in Uruguay is affected by the pressures of the military in the year that preceded the military coup of 1973.
