A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.
本以为不赖特，却依旧很赖特，风格确实很适合拍这种老时代，曲子很棒，镜像和幻境也很棒，视听实在惊艳，受剥削女性的跨时代通灵，无形的压迫无处不在，文本故事还是俗套了些，但风格完全可以盖过 ，今年的最佳恐怖片，我就选这部了！
前半段想说还挺逗比的，后半段属实给吓到了😱🤪
【2.0】友邻形容的马戏团杂耍招式的电影调度很形象，虽然我是觉得花哨的调度在这个作品里完全谈不上出错。不喜欢此片纯粹因为反转做得太掉价。
以恐怖悬疑片的形式，来包装一个怀旧片，满片的六十年代歌曲，像极一个大MV。而贯穿全剧的各种元素，就是一部可笑的大杂烩，更是令人生厌。片中有一句台词还不错：旧时代伦敦的味道，已经渗透到每一堵墙壁之中。确实。
【2.0】友邻形容的马戏团杂耍招式的电影调度很形象，虽然我是觉得花哨的调度在这个作品里完全谈不上出错。不喜欢此片纯粹因为反转做得太掉价。
整体上还是有点失望的。从主题到风格到阵容都非常迷人，这也使后半程故事走向突变、突然发现内容体量撑不起格局时感到特别遗憾，结尾更是崩坏得厉害。很喜欢跳舞的那个长镜头，不过在意识到精分段落不过是《未麻的部屋》的重写时就觉得没那么惊艳了。Anya依然魅力四射。
其实前半部分还行，就是后面导演完全控制不住剧情节奏和走向了，遁入深渊
复古优雅的视听语言和被反复消费的安雅小11和芬尼克
原声必收，60年代英伦复古大串联。另外，镜像的点子实现的不错。
视听的大胆和创新放在今年可以说是鹤立鸡群，各种镜像构图精妙转场配上复古音乐。剧本头重脚轻，高开低走，导致最终观感没能再上一层。
3.5，主题呈现的很清晰，但是剧本虎头蛇尾，不太喜欢结尾。埃德加赖特放弃了原来的剪辑风格，不过在时空和人物转换上做得非常丝滑，配乐依然选得非常好听，有些回音的设计挺喜欢的，托马辛的表演超出预期。
年度悬疑片最大惊喜，流行与复古并行的双重华丽视觉特效，引人入胜的悬疑设置，虽然最后片尾的凶手的反转与。女主事业的成功，让剧情多少沦为败笔，但整体瑕不掩瑜吧，三星半。
“我很高兴你没有。”
非常不“埃加德莱特”的一部电影，抛去了导演以往所有作品的影子，这次大玩恐怖、铅黄、梦境和意识，既cult又不落入俗套，两个女孩之间的反复切换让观众不至于审美疲劳。但这样的不妥协也必然带来的结果是观众评价的两极分化严重，没有了“血与冰激淋”反套路化的模式，企图突破以往的作品，埃加德莱特的前程势必艰辛
好可惜啊
The script is a dud (again), characters are underwritten, some gestures don’t seem to have any purpose, there is conflict between what shows and what means. Camera work is the only bright spot, but you can also argue that he sacrificed the content for the form.
没有传说中的那么有趣啊！及其乏善可陈的一部矫情拧巴片，女主的人选和角色设定实在让我喜欢不起来，其实看到中间已经猜出个一二来了，但没想到内核命题是如此陈腔滥调，片子前半部分实在是没什么味道，后面的节奏倒是起来了，真真假假的一顿折腾，抽丝剥茧剥白菜看的还算没有尿点，但真凶起了杀心想一并灭口，按在这么个老谋深算的角色上也太显低级了，这么大岁数了还能再折腾几年啊？图个什么啊？且抵消了我对她所有不幸遭遇的同情和怜悯，处理的跟美国恐怖故事似的，到最后被怨灵包围逼迫时强行点题开始共情，弄得整部片子就好像是一个笑话，你要是穿越题材的兴许我还会觉得高级些，年代复古感做的还不错，这安雅现在真是够红的，但今后选片要注意了，千万别只沦为花瓶！
迷幻的视效加喧宾夺主的音乐，整个一大型MV串烧
為什麼我喜歡的美少女最近大屏幕的片都演這麼慘的⋯
视听语言极佳，故事不新，但有一个新鲜的讲述形式。
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