美丽的单身妈妈瑞切尔·凯勒（纳奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）带着儿子艾丹（大卫·多夫曼 David Dorfman 饰）离开留下了永生难以磨灭的恐怖回忆的故地西雅图，亚洲搬到了毗邻大海的俄勒冈州艾斯特里亚居住。瑞切尔在当地一家报社谋得一份工作，亚洲生活充实忙碌。某天，报社接到一条消息，两名青年在看了一卷神秘录像带后一人死亡，一人精神恍惚，熟悉的场景以及没有标题的录像带，令瑞切尔敏感地察觉到昔日的噩梦即将重现。她烧毁录像带，试图阻止凶铃的诅咒继续蔓延，危害世人，却没想到灾难降临到艾丹的头上。该了结的终要了结，无法逃避的如何也躲不过去……本片根据日本作家铃木光司的同名恐怖原著改编，为日本版的翻拍版本。影片荣获2006年ASCAP电影与电视音乐奖、2006年BMI电影与电视奖最佳配乐奖。
李卓庭
回复 :年轻人无意中被衰鬼上身，引出了黑白两道之间的恩怨，一场杀戮迫在眉睫……
张善为
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
李永昌
回复 :《科学怪人的诅咒》（The Curse of Frankenstein），又译作《神秘怪尸》，是1957年英国的一部恐怖片，由咸马公司出品。本片基于玛丽·雪莱的同名小说《科学怪人》。本片也是咸马公司的首部彩色电影，影片出品后得到成功并制作了多部续篇，并建立了有哥特意味的品牌形象。
