黛安娜在亨利-皮埃尔·沃尔夫开设的一家大型跨国公司工作。这家公司的业务范围十分广泛，从房地产到服装设计，几乎无所不包，在各个领域内都颇为活跃。沃尔夫公司经过谈判收购了一家发行新式漫画的日本公司，他们研发出一种数码三维图像漫画，这种全新的漫画将完全改变目前市场的竞争局面。有两家公司争夺沃尔夫公司的这种新漫画在网上的发行权：漫画天堂和魔鬼情人。为了争取主动，漫画天堂请黛安娜做工业间谍，以获取关于魔鬼情人的情报资料。实际上魔鬼情人和一系列暴力与非法色情网页有密切关系，这势必要使它在竞争中处于不利位置，虽然目前沃尔夫公司还没有发现这一联系。黛安娜发现它也采取了相应的情报策略，而且就在她那些表面中立的同事中有它的间谍。她对这些黑暗的内幕了解得越多，渐渐成了魔鬼情人的眼中钉。如今，被卷入这场复杂纠葛中的黛安娜已经无路可退，她只能退入到网络的虚拟世界中。或许，她一开始就是这个虚拟世界的一部分。
回复 :警探本•卡森（Kiefer Sutherland 基弗•萨瑟兰 饰）因枪杀同事被迫从纽约警察局提前退休，他的婚姻也随之破裂。落魄的本暂住在妹妹安琪（Amy Smart 饰）的公寓里，终日借酒浇愁。一段时间沉沦过后，本重抖精神，找到了一份保安的工作。他所供职的五月花购物商场五年前曾被大火毁于一旦，令他倍感奇怪的是，在这座焦黑的建筑物中，那一面面镜子却格外明亮。数日后，本在商场的镜子上发现奇怪的手印，而次日亦在妹妹家的镜子上见到恐怖的景象。接下来的日子里，恐怖事件接连发生……
回复 :剧情讲述年轻女子卡莉突然收到狱中母亲陷入昏迷的通知，面对两人过往的矛盾，卡莉依然决定前往探访，没想到却意外接触到一股不知名的超自然力量，唤醒怀抱着恶意的邪灵，揭露母女数十年来感情裂痕的恐怖根源。
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
