故事的灵感来自于流传在印度许久的一个传说。有一个名叫施特丽的女鬼会在夜里出来游荡，视频手机并袭击落单的男性。每次行动前，视频手机她都会先在背后呼唤对方的名字，当喊到第三声时，这个男人就会如同着了魔一般，转过身去，任由形容可怕、双脚悬空的施特丽将他赤身掳走，只剩下衣服还留在原地.....我们的主角是一个萌萌哒的小裁缝，名叫维奇，确切的说他是一名女装小裁缝，作为一个现代人，维奇对于施特丽的传说，非常不屑。在一次夜间派对时分，维奇的好友也以同样的方式失踪，接着不断有男人失踪。正义感爆棚的他决定，无论多么艰险，都得解救自己的朋友，并想办法驱走施特丽，还小镇一个安宁太平……
孙耀威
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
黄露仪
回复 :经典IP魔改升级，人、妖两界不共戴天，程季常，李月娥神仙眷侣再现江湖。看二人如何抗宿命，斩心魔，闯情关，东方魔幻版为爱狮吼一触即发！
姜征
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