鬼屋之影 (1983)

A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesnt live up to those high expectations, but its 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 wont 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 hes 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. Its 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 dont 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. 为了Carradine看的，四位大佬同台戏确实过瘾，不过意义大于电影本身，后面那个反转没有想到。比起同类型《足迹》确实差点。20200228周五16:41 house party虽然有致敬，但整体故事性还是有点弱，结尾的反转意义大于情节。Bloody boring, not worth the long journey to Birmingham City University, especially on this rainy day.本来以为李爷爷普莱斯库欣一起演部恐