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.
索金重回《社交网络》级别的编剧水平，可惜导演功力还是有限，仍差一口气。剧本太好了，太好了。妮可与哈维尔都贡献了生涯前三级别的表演，真棒啊！
What a fantastic film to watch after you just fucked up your probability midterm, and Oscar sounding like the hot Slovak math prof just made it even better :) Oscar’s super hot though, which makes me wonder how can someone who used to torture for a living and then suffered 8-year prison sentence be so well mannered? Plus, nothing else makes sense.
最后就是，作为一部关于情景喜剧的传记片，只有俩演员的口音是笑点，未免太失败了点。
不喜欢，真的不喜欢，大概是目前奥斯卡最佳影片，男主女主，男配女配所有提名的影片加在一起里面倒数第三个不喜欢的。
台词依旧很精妙……可让三次劫难集中爆发，刚看到两夫妻同心协力渡了两次劫，还来不及庆祝，女主拿出证明男主出轨的口红印，第二天就申请离婚了……这节奏快得让人不适……Sorkin以往的剧本中用爱情婚姻当调味料还是很惊艳的，一拿它当主料就不太适口
剧情太平淡了，姬得满阿姨在众多口碑上佳的作品中，这部实属表现平平
大家一直用塔米菲的眼睛和本片作比较，我觉得完全不同。前者是事件夹杂感情，而后者是通过感情线把事情说清楚，完全不一样的逻辑。很显然，我喜欢后者~片子里的妮可，睿智幽默时代感和事业心很强，又是个好妻子，展现了女性直觉敏锐、语言能力强(主要是说服力)和女性之间竞争怜悯嫉妒友谊等诸多生活中的微小细节，让男人看了自愧不如。但感情动物的世界，是强调自尊的男人永远不懂的镜花水月，像在大风中随风摇曳的小花那么柔弱。至于妆发和表演，化妆我给塔米菲，表演我倾向于里卡多。剧可以是完美的，但生活总有一些不那么完美，因为里边有人那～
没有把握好两位五十几岁演员的妆造问题，以至于二十来岁的“过去”和四十来岁的“当下”不能一眼分清。其他没放下，见长评。
906｜表现欲爆表的索金这次真是讨人厌，导演水平逐渐下降的同时几乎放弃了正常的推进，于是我们就能看到这样的场景：男女主你一言我一语地搭着，然后恢弘的配乐响起，这时我们才意识到这里似乎很重要。整部电影都是如此，感觉索金拿着个手电筒给观众指点迷津：看！我要表现他们的感情了！看！伪纪录片！看！这个社会议题多么令人深思啊！可惜电影不是指哪打哪的打地鼠游戏，披上年代感的伪装也不能掩盖死气沉沉的事实。妮可·基德曼是压死忍耐的最后一根稻草，看到她那无时无刻装腔作势的僵硬的脸就烦。
虽然有些场景确实很没质感。
8/10.
艾伦索金的左派表达靠着字字珠玑的剧本，或许显得有一些力量，但从内容上看，过于自由、精英化的表达其实毁掉了其深刻性。妮可的表演确实是影后级的，但总是带着一种令人厌烦的熟练。这种剧中剧的设计，倒是真让人感怀影像那近乎妖术的魅力。但是说到底，电影还是资本的游戏，索金已经是局内人了。
#观影手记# 2358
艾伦·索金编剧，拿的全是演员提名，没拿到编剧提名。本片的剧本也确实一言难尽，里面的人物塑造、剧情冲突以及议题的设置，浓缩在一周之内，依旧还是索金的水准，也因此让演员有了足够的发挥空间。但堆砌饿了如此多的议题，剧情臃肿无比，即使具体每一幕依旧优秀，但整体则平庸无比
对于不了解时代和角色背景的观众来说，跳跃的剧情和大段台词让观众看的云山雾罩也很难有耐心看的明白，所以更难理解角色的某些偏执和情绪，演员都是好演员，但看的过程只是一直在想这片子到底在讲啥，还有它怎么还没演完…
也就是索金吧，对剧本的掌控力如此强大。影片在三条线之间穿越，两条时间线，里卡多夫妇的发迹和现在，还有一条鲍尔脑中戏，同时着眼一周，分段叙述，相当于把一个故事按照不同维度进行立体切割，野心太大了！全片严守各个界限，完成的丝毫不乱，没提名剧本奖有点意外。在这样的叙事里，妮可儿跳进跳出有了很大的表演空间，这是提名女主最大的理由，但矛盾冲突也因此拉长减弱。巴登倒是呈现了与以往完全不同的表演，有惊喜，但角色设定服务于女主，气场不足以竞争男主，西蒙斯应该是安慰性提名。
带着了解旧好莱坞演员露西尔.鲍尔为人的低期待来看至少是符合预期的，人物性格和形象抓实了，除此之外就是唇枪舌战式的一锅乱炖了。
首先索金的剧本依然是让人沉迷 大段对白丝毫不会感到无聊 其次作为VEEP+AD双粉 看到托尼海尔+阿莉娅基本就想无原则加两星先 但是剧本结构越复杂 索金导演上的短板就越明显 上一部芝加哥七君子好歹还是线性叙事看着没那么突兀 到了这部就非常明显地感觉到了无镜头语言表达 剪辑稀碎 转场生硬
艾伦索金的那部《芝加哥七君子》我能给95分，而这部我只能给55分。
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