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类型：恐怖片
主演：Marshall Thompson Shirley Patterson
语言：英语
年代：未知
简介：Out of the fifties 'B' Science-Fiction monster movies, this easily ranks as the best. It's most notable as the film that ALIEN is an unaccredited remake of, thus giving it a certain historical significance. The intriguing plot is about the rescue of the only marooned survivor (Col. Carruthers) of an ill-fated expedition to Mars. The authorities, pig-headed as usual, falsely assume that he murdered his fellow crew members, so that he'd have more provisions to survive; hence he is being brought back to Earth to face court-martial for murder. (There is also a somewhat interesting plot reversal here Most movies of this nature usually begin with the ship leaving Earth, enroute to its otherworld destination, while, in this case, the story is believed finished, and begins as the characters take-off from the other planet, returning to Earth). As the rescue ship is leaving Mars, a lurking, ominous shadow is seen in the lower compartment. (A frightening, atmospheric moment, accomplished through sheer economy and simplicity). Carruthers insists of his innocence to his fellow captors, claiming that his original crew mates were slaughtered by a hostile, unseen presence on the desolute red planet, but three-guesses as to their reaction to his unusual plea. Naturally, he can't prove it, and 50's space authorities were not very alien conscience at the time. (As a side-thought, unseen menace may remind you of that highly original BLAIR WITCH). As everyone sacks out, a hapless supporting charactor whose name is at the bottom of the casting list (guess what will happen to him) hears something in the lower compartment. Despite your futile don't go down there, you jerk! pleas, he does just that, and is appropriately killed (more like thoroughly obliterated) by the shadowy figure with insatiable blood lust on its mind. In the victim's case, dereliction of duty and sheer cowardliness would have been the wise decision. The scene is actually well-directed (for a change) and develops much suspense, as the entire film surprisingly does. The crew finally catches on that they have an unwanted ship crasher on board, and try every possible means at their disposal to eliminate it, but the unknown creature seems to copping an anti-death attitude. Proving to be an even more clever, worthy adversary, 'IT!' also hides out in the ventilation shafts of the ship (now that should ring a bell). Cahn's forceful direction generates considerable tension as the malevolent stowaway works its way up from one level of the confined ship to the next, eventually leaving the remaining characters trapped at the top. The movie's suspense is blunt and right to the point IT!' has to kill them or starve, hence they have to kill IT! or die. Nothing like those no two ways about it choices. Rent it, or check for it on cable if you wish to know the outcome. For a low-budget quickie, IT! is quite impressive and memorable. The dreaded sense of claustrophobic tension, rendering the characters' helpless entrapment, is highly effective. This is a production in which the limited budget and small sets actually work in favor of the plot's scary ambience. The black white photography (Yes, it's one of those!) helps to enhance its dark, creepy mood, and the sense of apprehension is quite high. (Modern day color freaks never seem to take that into consideration). The plot is also somewhat cynically ironic If the creature hadn't stowed away on the ship, Carruthers would have most likely been found guilty of the charges against him. The intelligent script (see what I mean about rareity) was penned by noted Science-Fiction author Jerome Bixby (remember Twilight Zone's It's a Good Life) The picture's taut editing eliminates any extraneous dross. (ALIEN tended to drag in its first hour with its sophomoric dialogue, and why did it have to include that stupid and ultimately counter-productive sub-plot of Ash being a robot, and further dragging the story down to another big bad conspiracy cliche UNNECESSARY!!!) Director Cahn astutely keeps the rubber-suited monster off-screen and in the shadows through-out most of the proceedings, keeping your paranoid imagination on constant alert. Unfortunately, perhaps at the studio's commercial insistance, it is a little over-revealed at the climax, but I haven't claimed this to be the perfect masterpiece. The performances, though nothing award-winning, are nevertheless cool enough so that one becomes sincerely concerned as to their fates. Not many movies in recent times ever come close to achieving that. They can be over-produced from here to eternity, and usually only succeed in being gloriously annoying. This film's story is not really totally original (what is), for it is based on A.E. Van Vogt's VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE. All ALIEN fanatics should track down an old used copy to see where the initial influence came from. As long as you're not craving another CGI wind-ding, you may find it worthwhile. Just don't expect the women to be Ripley precursors. This was still the sock-knitting fifties, sad to say.
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类型：剧情片
主演：Heinrich Hargesheimer Carlheinz Har
语言：其它
年代：未知
简介：The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
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类型：恐怖片
主演：苏珊·斯塔丝伯格 罗纳德·刘易斯 安·托德 克里斯托弗·李 John
语言：英语
年代：未知
简介：佩妮（苏珊·斯塔丝伯格 Susan Strasberg 饰）的父母在她很小的时候就离婚了，一直以来，佩妮都跟着母亲生活。一场意外夺走了母亲的生命，于是，孤苦无依的佩妮接受了父亲的邀请，前去和父亲以及继母一起生活。然而到了父亲家，佩妮却发现在那里的只有继母一人，虽然这个女人表现得非常的和善与热情，但佩妮还是对她充满了戒备。 继母家里发生的各种诡异的事情，以及始终下落不明的父亲让佩妮的神经越来越紧张，渐渐地，她开始分不清，在这里经历的一切，究竟是不是自己的幻觉。很显然，继母也希望佩妮产生这让的自我怀疑。
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类型：科幻片
主演：Clay Rogers Michael Bon Sharon Twom
语言：其它
年代：未知
简介：五个年轻人巴比、麦克、小桃、朱丽和玛格趁着假期开着小船出海游玩，却因为大意而被搁浅在海上，屋漏偏逢连夜雨的他们又遇上暴风雨，在大雨倾盆的情况下，他们找到了一艘并没有人的豪华游艇，以为找到了桃花源，在里面饮酒作乐，没想到可怕的危险就隐藏在这座豪华游艇里。游艇好像是一个大的实验室，里面有奇奇怪怪的远古鱼类化石。巴比看到实验台上的白色粉末，尝了一下，以为是毒品。而后，玛格被会飞的鱼咬伤，他们才意识到问题的严重。麦克仔细研究了电脑里的资料，发现原来这些鱼都是吃了受污染的浮游生物后发生了异变。可此时已经为时已晚，除了麦克其余四人都被感染。游艇即将爆炸，这些怪物也即将被消灭，只有麦克跳海逃出。谁知怪物并没有死，麦克也没有逃生。
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类型：剧情片
主演：埃迪·康斯坦丁 汉斯·齐施勒 克劳迪亚·米歇尔森 Nathalie K
导演：让-吕克·戈达尔
语言：法语
年代：未知
简介：Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
