杰罗德·亨利教授（文森特·普莱斯 Vincent Price饰）是一名醉心艺术的雕刻艺术家，日本他的每件蜡像雕塑都栩栩如生。他一直潜心钻研历史上的著名人物形象，日本尤其钟爱法王路易十六的王后玛丽·安托瓦内特。然而他的生意合作伙伴马修·伯克（罗伊·罗伯茨 Roy Roberts饰）却因为杰罗德经营蜡像院收益不佳而大为不满。为了更快的收取钱财，丧心病狂的马修烧毁了整座蜡像馆，包括所有杰罗德视如珍宝的蜡像雕塑。火灾之后，杰罗德葬身火海，神秘地失踪了，而马修则如愿得到了大笔保险金。18个月后，杰罗德竟然奇迹般地“复活”了。不仅如此，杰罗德还举办了一次全新的艺术展览，一场以死亡暴力为题，令人毛骨悚然的血腥之展。苏·艾伦（菲莉丝·柯克 Phyllis Kirk饰）本是一名普通的美丽女孩，刚刚成为杰罗德的新任助理。可随着她的好友离奇被杀之后，苏的生活开始变得危险而不安。苏怎会知道，她正是杰罗德要创作的下一个完美蜡像玛丽·安托瓦内特。
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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 :萧条的城市里，帮派分子随处可见，担任黑手党会计的杰克因为私吞黑手党财产并向警方告密，而遭到黑手党监视，他一家人被困在公寓中随时会遭遇不测。杰克和妻子将小儿子菲尔托付给单身女邻居葛洛莉（吉娜·罗兰兹 Gena Rowlands 饰），然而他们自己却没能躲过黑手党……欲追回钱款的黑手党继续追索菲尔，但此时，身份并不简单的葛洛莉挺身而出，决定保护这个陌生的男孩。二人在黑手党的包围中侥幸逃走，声称厌恶孩子的葛洛莉与英语不甚流利的混血男孩在步步惊心的旅途中营造了互信与默契，但葛洛莉清楚，真正的把菲尔从黑手党手中解救出来需要她做出一个惊险的决定……
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回复 :《蘑菇人玛坦戈（日文原名：マタンゴ，外文名：Matango）》，是日本东宝公司制作发行于1963年8月11日上映的恐怖电影，导演是本多猪四郎，特技负责人是圆谷英二，本片是《变身人间》系列的番外篇。本片的创作灵感来自威廉·H·霍奇森的恐怖故事《夜之声》。
