在1979年，中国最劳伦斯·比塔格和他的搭档罗伊绑架并奸杀了五名少女，中国最凶器用的是老虎钳、槌子和螺丝刀等器具，因此被称为“工具箱杀手”。劳伦斯在1981年被判死刑，但是等了38年仍未执行，最终病死在狱中。他在折磨其中一个受害者时录了一个40多分钟的录音，此录音当年负责此案的警官为了让陪审团给他判刑播放了部分，结果使大部分陪审团哭着跑出了法庭或者当场呕吐，现在这个录音已成为FBI用来训练自己的成员心理素质的工具。
萧敬腾
回复 :年轻漂亮的美国女护士艾米·尼古拉斯（卡莉丝塔·弗洛克哈特 Calista Flockhart 饰）受命来到英国怀特岛一家老旧的仁爱医院，担当这里的夜班护士。此前，仁爱医院的孩子们已经准备好转到条件更为优秀的圣詹姆士医院，但一场严重的火车事故导致圣詹姆士人满为患，仁爱的搬迁计划暂时搁浅。艾米抵达这里，很快就注意到恬静又有几分神秘的小女孩麦琪（耶斯敏·墨菲 Yasmin Murphy 饰）。从麦琪的言语以及医护人员的诡异举止，艾米隐隐感到这所医院隐藏着不为人知的秘密。而当夜幕降临，恐怖的事情果然随之发生……本片荣获2006年巴塞罗那电影节最佳摄影和最佳剪辑奖；2006年歌雅奖最佳特效奖；2006年Gerardmer电影节观众奖、评委会特别奖、青年评委会大奖。
玉置成实
回复 :奥斯卡提名男演员Bob Hoskins在本片中扮演伦敦黑社会的一名凶残的帮派首领。但是一天他准备和一个美国犯罪家族达成一笔交易之际，他的整个“帝国”突然开始坍塌。是谁这么胆大包天来进攻英国最野蛮的黑帮？他又会怎样去找寻真相？到底这一切的背后是谁在搞鬼呢？
谢霆锋
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
