美国导演塞缪尔·福勒1964年作品，日本黑白片，日本片长91分钟。夜总会女郎凯莉为了摆脱往事的困扰而来到了一座陌生的小镇。在经历了一系列波折后，她不但拥有了安稳的工作，还与一富家子弟坠入爱河。可正当她以为找到了幸福，却惊恐地发现……塞缪尔·福勒是美国最著名的B级片导演之一（B级片即一种成本较低的影院加映片），他始终坚持着自己黑色、暴力的电影风格，宁可几年息影也从不向片商妥协退让。塞缪尔·福勒在美国乃至世界独立制片界都享有极高的地位，他的影片受到戈达尔的高度赞扬，丹尼斯·霍普曾指导过以他为题材的影片《最后的电影》，贾木许、塔伦蒂诺等年轻导演也一直把他视为偶像。
韦国元
回复 :一个大规模的入侵行动发生，让地球几乎全灭，幸存的这一家人过着安静无声的生活，一发出声音就会被怪物抓走。《寂静之地》中的家庭必须时时保持安静，这一家人必须搞清楚哪些声音可以发出，哪些不行。父亲铺了沙子路来消音，全家人必须使用手语，还有用来沟通的照明系统…等，才能避免可怕的事情发生，因为猎杀他们的怪物无所不在，这是真正的挑战，他们必须克服生死难关，想尽办法活下去。保持安静是生存唯一法则，它们无法听到你，就无法追捕你。
郑潇
回复 :一个印第安女人为躲避臭名昭著的荷兰野人帮逃到未知的黑森林。他们很快发现必须互相帮助，因为在不知不觉中他们唤醒了一个古老的贪婪的被称为“雪怪”的黑暗生物。。。
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
