The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
這部電影演員總共有五個,男女主,牧師夫妻和園丁。前半部分沒啥好看的。男主帶著妻子珍妮住進(jìn)了他的房子,聽牧師說男主前妻在這個房子里有一次在一個雨夜里滑倒摔死了,頭骨都碎了,尸體掉到了池塘里。電影前面莫名出現(xiàn)的恐怖頭骨一開始看似是園丁在搞鬼其實(shí)是男主在背地里裝神弄鬼嚇唬珍妮的,最后還想殺她。而動機(jī)如最后牧師所說是為了珍妮的錢。說白點(diǎn)前面就是人嚇人。到了后面真的骷髏出現(xiàn)了把男主弄死在了池塘里。珍妮和牧師他們也離開了,電影結(jié)束。
那么問題來了,男主的前妻真的是意外摔死的嗎?這也是電影最后牧師的疑惑。雖然電影一直沒有交代,不過我個人的看法是前妻被男主謀殺的可能性很大。不然最后骷髏不會出現(xiàn)復(fù)仇而且目標(biāo)只找男主。而男主在這電影里的人設(shè)和表現(xiàn)確實(shí)有極大可能會這樣做。
黑白片英語沒字幕,就開頭和結(jié)尾出現(xiàn)一下骷髏頭,中間沒看懂,最后男主被骷髏頭弄進(jìn)池塘淹死了
20190918周三22:20 真系有鬼呀,前妻的頭骨飄蕩回來穩(wěn)夫?qū)こ?,而丈夫忙著殺自己現(xiàn)任妻子,雷公響應(yīng)替天行道,一切為了金錢,呀呀呀的尖叫聲與配樂比較恐怕!
美國也不許有鬼哦
已發(fā)布
渣男雖渣男,但這結(jié)局實(shí)在太科幻了
感謝拖延癥字幕組,電影沒有它的歷史評價那么爛。開頭很搞笑——“制片方認(rèn)為他們必須在您觀賞本片之前知曉,任何因觀看本片受到驚嚇致死的觀眾均可得到一份免費(fèi)的殉葬服務(wù)”。嚇人倒是不嚇人,光影配樂還是有詭異氣氛的,最后懸疑揭秘實(shí)在是太草率了,如果拍得細(xì)致點(diǎn),能變成不錯的片子。頭骨一開始應(yīng)該是男人放的,目的是讓現(xiàn)任妻子的精神病復(fù)發(fā),好謀奪她的財(cái)產(chǎn);從設(shè)計(jì)燒畫,頭骨被放回池塘之后,是前妻亡魂復(fù)仇(前妻應(yīng)該也是男人害死的)。我本來有點(diǎn)期待園丁這個角色的,性格古怪,智力行動有障礙,和前妻青梅竹馬感情深厚,結(jié)果園丁后期也沒有任何展開。
【拖延癥】據(jù)說是爛出知名度的片子 講述和蝴蝶夢差不多的故事 不過只能說爛片各有各的特色。。
我寫長評的時候還沒評分,這就出來了
哈哈哈 我們的惡趣味就是收集這種上世紀(jì)粗糙、沙雕但又有點(diǎn)小聰明的恐怖片??
#恐懼:一下一下,夜里樹枝拍在墻上發(fā)出聲響,風(fēng)很大# 我想Peggy Webber需要買對耳塞
女主人真能tm能叫,
片頭挺唬人,結(jié)果稀爛
爛的太平庸,爛的不好看
海報比電影還精彩的感覺……
……頭骨多到后期就沒有那么驚悚了……。
開頭免費(fèi)的殯葬服務(wù)太損了,故事是真的挺差的,對前女主人意外死亡的陰影籠罩及隨處可見的氣息像是復(fù)刻了《蝴蝶夢》,故事后半段的走向又像是《煤氣燈下》同款
雜糅「蝴蝶夢」和五十年代廉價恐怖設(shè)定的「冤鬼索命」,多重懸疑(前妻之死、古怪園丁、女主的精神病與「戀父情結(jié)」)以及可謂上乘的配樂、音效都讓這個「史上最差電影」有點(diǎn)「名不副實(shí)」,當(dāng)然最后「骷髏鎖喉」的最大問題反而是太寫實(shí)了,而最終收場和真相也是草率。
看過留痕
配樂出色,老派恐怖片,善惡有報,冤魂復(fù)仇的故事
冷門片還是爛片的多??