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.
The modern-day adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel follows Will Radford (Ice Cube), a top cyber-security analyst for Homeland Security, who spends his days tracking potential threats to national security through a mass surveillance program, until an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him … and the rest of the wo...
一名国土安全部官员光天化日之下被暗杀,洛杉矶警探马克·米查姆(詹森·阿克斯 Jensen Ackles 饰)因此被招募加入一个由各大执法机构卧底组成的秘密特别小组,展开了调查。但随着调查深入,这场谋杀背后隐藏着远比他们想象中更加险恶的阴谋。
一名国土安全部官员光天化日之下被暗杀,洛杉矶警探马克·米查姆(詹森·阿克斯 Jensen Ackles 饰)因此被招募加入一个由各大执法机构卧底组成的秘密特别小组,展开了调查。但随着调查深入,这场谋杀背后隐藏着远比他们想象中更加险恶的阴谋。
A group of 10 true crime obsessives are invited to the opening weekend of the newly renovated Cold River Motel, the site of a 30-year-old unsolved satanic mass murder. History repeats itself when the guests get stranded and start getting knocked off one by one during a murder spree that grows exponentially more gruesome than the original with each kill.
Apple TV+续订《海盗佳丽》第二季。
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Apple TV+续订《海盗佳丽》第二季。
经历病毒浩劫的幸存者们在远离城市的地方建立了新的聚集区,平静的生活却在28年后被再次打破。更加致命的病毒变异,日渐扭曲的人性与欲望,人类的命运将会何去何从?
女警与酗酒丈夫闹离婚。某夜,女警交通肇事撞死丈夫后逃逸。第二天得知曾经酗酒的老师,成为撞死丈夫的替罪羊。法医发现女警丈夫被撞两次的事实,但选择隐瞒事实。女警不忍老师定罪并被开除公职,决定自首认罪。