美国某大学艺术系的学生：春暖贝丝（Lauren German 饰）、春暖惠特妮（Bijou Phillips 饰）和洛娜（Heather Matarazzo 饰）利用假期来到美丽的意大利罗马游玩。她们偶然遇见漂亮迷人的女模特爱丽克希尔（Vera Jordanova 饰），后者自告奋勇担任三个女孩的免费导游，并承诺带她们去斯洛文尼亚某个乡村小镇——一个更浪漫更舒适的地方——游玩。年少不知愁且玩心颇重的女孩们欣然前往，然而等待她们的并非蓝天绿水美食佳肴，也没有英俊帅气的男孩，更没有浪漫唯美的爱情，而是恐怖残酷的无情虐杀……
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 :On the eve of forced retirement, a violent hurricane traps veteran late night radio host Amy Marlowe and her uneasy staff at WLST while her mysterious new replacement shadows her every move.
回复 :麦克（布鲁斯·威利斯 饰）是著名儿童心理学家，却也有始终未能治愈的患者，甚至因此遭到枪击，这名少年随后也饮枪自毙。这给麦克带来很大心理阴影，一年后他找到另一个症状很像这名患者的男孩柯尔（海利·乔·奥斯蒙 饰），并耐心的做起了他的医生。柯尔并不容易接近，但麦克还是慢慢赢得 了他的信任，得知了柯尔的秘密。原来柯尔有着灵异的第六感，可以看到鬼魂。虽然这令人感到难以置信，但麦克在证实了事情的真相后还是帮助柯尔接受了这个事实。可是就在问题即将得到解决的时候，麦克却在柯尔的引导下，发现了一个更令人震惊的秘密……
