Patrick Davenant invites a group of friends to visit a theater inside his villa, a place which later reveals itself as sinister. Within a short time, the guests realize that they are trapped in the villa. A merciless killer then begins to murder them one by one.
《千禧年》杂志的财经记者米克尔·布隆克维斯特(丹尼尔·克雷格 Daniel Craig 饰)正被一桩报导引起的诽谤诉讼案搞得焦头烂额之际,却意外接到了瑞典顶尖家族企业范耶尔工业集团的创始人亨利·范耶尔(克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰)的邀请。表面上米克尔要为对方写传记,实则是帮迪奇调查一桩40年前发生在家族里的悬而未决的杀人案。米克尔认真梳理堆积如山的资料,与家族成员交流攀谈。却在关键时刻,被一个边缘女孩莉丝贝丝·沙兰德(鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰)入侵电脑盗取了资料。他找到同要具有非凡调查能力的莉丝,邀请她一同调查,却发现面前是一个深不见底的欲望黑洞……
本片根据瑞典小说家斯蒂格·拉尔松(Stieg Larsson)的原著改编。
瑞典小镇,两名情窦初开的花季少女。影片开始在安妮(瑞贝卡·里尔杰伯格 Rebecka Liljeberg饰)写下的生日愿望中展开,内向自闭的她把这个秘密一直封存在自己的电脑中。在学校里,她也觉得自己没有真正的朋友,直到她转校来到伊琳(亚历桑德拉·达尔斯托姆 Alexandra Dahlström饰)的班上。外向叛逆的伊琳美丽早熟,身边总是围绕着一群讨好她的女生跟一堆追求她的男生。安妮一直默默的注视着她,暗暗把伊琳作为自己的爱恋对象。在生日聚会当天,大家发现了安妮的秘密——希望伊琳可以爱上她。伊琳因为一个赌注真的亲吻了安妮,两人的关系发生了微妙的变化。她们之间这纯真的爱情,是否能够抵过父母的质问与同学的嘲弄,终可挽着双手、昂首挺胸地走出人群呢……
PANIC BEATS begins with a totally nude woman with welts on her body, running through a misty forest full of decayed skeletons. A knight on horseback is chasing her, and we soon learn that he is Alaric de Marnac (a wicked character Naschy first created for HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB), viciously killing her for her unfaithful ways. After the credits role, we are taken to the present where a descendent of Marnac named Paul (Naschy) is married to the wealthy Geneviève (Julia Saly) was has some serious heart problems. Paul decides to take her to his ancestral home in the country for some peace and quiet, but the superstitious-filled setting opens a Pandora’s Box of terrible occurrences. We soon discover that Paul is a real son-of-a-bitch who plans to scare his wife to death, planning to control her fortune and continue his secret affair with seductive bad girl Mireille (Silvia Miró), who happens to be the niece of the tarot card-reading housekeeper, Mabile (Lola Gaos). Paul’s malevolent scheme works, but he still has to worry about an additional money-hungry mistress (this guy really gets around!), the unforgiving Mabile, as well as new fianceé Mireille who might be hiding a thing or two herself. More grisly murders follow, and the ghost of Marnac returns from hell to punish the most despicable human character in the film. PANIC BEATS was also written by Naschy (under his real name Jacinto Molina) who injects the film with an old-fashioned spooky house motif, beefed up with a modern movie sense of violence and sexuality. The film offers nothing too innovative storywise, and even Naschy admits on the disc’s extras that it was partly inspired by GASLIGHT and REBECCA, but he seems to just toss in a hodgepodge of exploitation and horror ingredients, while delivering a stylish and enjoyable effort with a number of twists and some genuinely chilling moments. The camera shots and lighting are both effective, and there's even does a cool set-up (much like what Freddie Francis did in THE SKULL and THE CREEPING FLESH) where we see the point of view of Marnac through his dark helmet as he stalks his female prey. Graphically, we are exposed to everything from a plate of bloody eyeballs, to victims being beaten relentlessly with the various Medieval weapons affixed on the house’s walls (for example, someone is axed in the stomach, followed by the soaked entrails oozing out!). Naschy’s most frequent 1980s leading lady, Julia Saly, is not given much to do, but with her offbeat looks, is a nice presence nonetheless. The prominent female star here is Silvia Miró who is seen in the buff frequently, and she certainly makes for some well-appreciated Euro starlet eye candy. Naschy himself is very good in the film, putting on conniving facades, carrying a number of women on a string,
Meet the world's first 'cyborgs' - a quadriplegic, a blind man, an amputee, a bio-hacker, and a woman with Parkinson's - the scientists who help them, and one entrepreneur who will stop at nothing on his quest to unlock the brain.
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Liv (Jessica Henwick) and Hanna (Julia Garner), two Canadian women on vacation in Australia, run out of money. Desperate, they take a job bartending in a remote desert Outback hotel, only to realize they’ve stumbled into a sun-struck patch of Hell-on-Earth. Writer-director Kitty Green adapts, with co-screenwriter Oscar Redding, a true story that starts as a feminist parable and...