一个想当电影制片人的电影制作人说服一个不情愿的电影导演,当两人都突然被一个神秘的团伙绑架时,他们给予指导。
一对年轻夫妇经常拍摄、上传自己探险水下房屋的视频。这次二人前往一个偏远的湖泊,意外发现了深水中一幢奇怪的废弃房屋,而他们的到来唤醒了深宅中的黑暗存在。
American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
I am awestruck by this movie. Fast zombies that can use weapons, even guns, and are capable of intelligent thought. They plot a strategic offensive to take over the city, hitting the airport, then the TV stations and the power plant. If you love horror, gory, and violent movies and don't mind a little bad acting, then you will LOVE this movie. It is exciting and even a bit suspenseful. It starts out fast and hard and maintains a steady pace of mayhem and carnage. I can't believe more people haven't seen this film. I have yet to meet a horror movie buff that has seen this film before. It is a true gemstone of European horror and exploitation, definitely up to par with the classics of the genre such as Zombi 2, Demons, House by the Cemetery, etc. And it's even readily available uncut (92 minutes) on DVD from Anchor Bay (under the title "Nightmare City") and on VHS under the title "City of the Walking Dead." Super gory and violent, a must for fans of Italian grind house flicks.
四十年前以凌厉音效先声夺人,惊吓声威至今仍非同凡响。以疯人院板球赛的倒叙展开,前卫音乐家(尊赫)与妻子居于宁静村庄,不速之客一日突然到访。神秘男子(阿伦卑斯)自称在澳洲内陆杀死妻儿,并学会土著巫术,能以呐喊置人于死地。在海岸沙丘上张臂一呼,令音乐家崩倒,牧羊人与羊群丧命;魅惑亦令妻子迷倒,取代男主人位置。瘫痪孩子、斜倚裸女与主教头像,培根三幅扭曲人像呈现三个主角的畸零病态;文明与原始、理性与荒谬、真实与虚幻的对峙,在杜比音响下环回扩张,令诡异惊栗加倍撼人心魄。
影片讲述在洛杉矶的一个夜晚,一个年轻的司机(兰登伯格饰)载着两个年轻漂亮的女人,奔赴5个不同的派对。在他发现她们并不是先前她们所声称的那样,他陷入到怀疑人生之中。
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中,没有亲人,亦没有过去。一天,一位神秘的妇人安吉拉(玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria João Bastos 饰)找到了约翰,声称自己是他的亲生母亲,并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。 安吉拉是侯爵的女儿,她和伯爵之子席尔瓦(何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰)相爱,遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而,叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服,她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子,决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦,甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过,幸运的是,安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助,约翰才得以长大。成年之后,约翰来到巴黎,遇见了一位贵妇,他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手,让约翰没有想到的是,这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。
浩瀚无垠的澳洲大陆,壮观绝美的自然风光吸引无数旅者和背包客来到此地一游。可是当他们快乐自在和大自然融为一体的时候,却全然没有意识到危险也在悄然逼近。晴朗明媚的一天,德国小伙鲁特格尔(Philippe Klaus 饰)和女友凯瑟琳娜(Shannon Ashlyn 饰)徒步行走在漫长无边的公路上,他们正前往国家公园,期间扬手搭车,尽享背包客的乐趣。两人你侬我侬,在国家公园的野外支起帐篷,谁知却被冷空无情的米克·泰勒(约翰·贾瑞特 John Jarratt 饰)盯上了。一轮紧张的对话过后,米克出手杀害鲁特格尔,弄晕凯瑟琳娜。当惊恐的女孩从昏迷中醒来时,发现不远处的米克宛如魔鬼一般悠然自得地肢解着她的男友。 凯瑟琳屏住呼吸落荒而逃,但是残忍的死神怎能容得他的猎物轻易逃脱……
1965年新西兰,长相平平的女孩海瑟尔•法苏罗(Agnes Bruckner 饰)生长在一个缺少温暖的家庭之中,她因引起森林火灾而被父母送到一所偏远的寄宿学校——费尔伯恩学院就读。这所学校枯燥呆板,院长崔西夫人(Patricia Clarkson 饰)严苛冷酷,同时海瑟尔又和新结识的朋友马茜(Lauren Birkell 饰)经常受到室友萨曼莎(Rachel Nichols 饰)的欺负,这一切的一切,都令海瑟尔想早点逃离这个黑暗之地。 偶然见她发现,身边的同学相继人间蒸发,海瑟尔隐隐感觉到,自己将会是下一个……
影片分为三段故事,约翰.卡彭特拍前两则,托比.胡柏拍最后一则故事。卡彭特本人惟妙惟肖的扮演贯穿全片的负责讲故事的停尸房的老死尸,其幽默的演出绝对具有专业水准。他将停尸房里的一具死尸,一堆烂肉和一粒眼珠的生前经历娓娓道来… 第一部分《加油站》故事设定在半夜的一个加油站。一个城市的某个地区近来接连发生了好几起以女性为目标的凶杀案,这晚负责在加油站值夜班新来的实习女大学生成了杀手的新猎物。。。。 第二部分《头发》男主角的脱发日渐严重,只好想方设法的增发以保持自己的魅力和自信。于是他根据电视广告来到具有修复坏死皮囊的博士那里…第二天,他的头发果然焕然一新,然而怪事也接踵而至… 第三部分《眼睛》讲述一名棒球手遭遇车祸,右眼失明。医院用一名死者的眼球进行移植,恢复后棒球手常常看到可怕的幻象,经过调查才知道他的眼球是来自一名变态杀人狂,而他自己的行为也开始变得越来越可怕…