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.
#58thGH最佳新导演/最佳新演员 不太像美国女孩的女孩。姐姐对于思想差异的反抗仅仅停留在家庭的叙事空间里，在学校里没有任何有效的表达，呈现的仅仅是一个自怨自艾的少女，且也没有明显的变化，所以姐姐这个角色的塑造是失败的，没有能够引起观众的共情。母亲身患癌症，她的状态处于理性和失控之间，导演也没有把母亲的角色表达清楚，在模糊之间再一次将整个家庭关系变得不紧密且混乱。因癌症而错乱失衡的家庭情感在外力极少的情况下爆发得极为惨烈，就变成了无端的情绪冲突爆发，显得极为缺少张力，混乱且吵闹的观感会在后期显得极为明显。（其余见长评）
真的太难看了。那么多说真实的，大家的家庭生活这么惨淡吗？
杰洛特，你真是没跟你师父好好学啊，你看看你和你师傅的法印，差距多大。
哪边都算不上什么好人
三星半//甚至有些两极的文化差异挤压出的女孩 不服管也不服输//当视角转向母亲 就好像《伯德小姐》里的那个问题“如果这已经是最好的我了呢”//从COVID-19回看SARS 被控制的恐慌几乎没有改变过
太贴近现实了，压迫得我透不过气。必然会被拿来跟《瀑布》对比。生病的母亲，紧张的母女关系，悬崖边缘的日常生活，最后终于发现了怨恨背后的爱意，暂时解除了危机。马这个意象用得蛮好。
古代传说改编？ 没有认同感… The.Witcher.Nightmare.of.the.Wolf.2021.1080p.WEB.H264-TIMECUT
年轻的维瑟米尔又帅又强，凯尔莫罕大屠杀原来是这么发生的，光头小朋友杰日天好阔爱呀
原来猎魔人也会流泪…虽然吃设定，但还算差强人意，猎魔人史诗级增强了，喝药涂油法印都很还原；不过杰洛特怎么是个光头…？
结局情节的处理有些突兀，但不失为一部佳作。
现在回望03非典这个特殊节点 哪怕两岸的气氛变了 个体家庭冲突中的温馨依旧；看吵架的妙处就在那些没有讲出来的内容 也许女儿最不想成为的真是妈妈 但那匹心中的白马却会一直陪伴
真人版也这样拍就好了~
吵架吵的很真实，每位角色的困境也很真实。但从头吵到尾，剧情白开水，全靠演员的演技把观众情绪调动起来的。林嘉欣演出了妈妈的脆弱，方郁婷演出了“美国女孩”的“不同”。另外，周杰伦的歌放在网吧当BGM太合适了。
两种疾病，两种问题。癌症对应家庭问题，非典对应新的人际关系的问题。你能看到疾病如何把人降低到事物的层面。疾病不是问题的根源，但它是故事的发动机。或许只有劫后余生之时，我们才能学会重新审视自己对待他人的方式。【6】
很棒，像这类型的动漫你当然也不能指望他还要升华主题有多么高深的内涵，只要把一个简单的故事讲好就够了，所以可以说这部动漫电影的完成度是很不错的。刚开始看以为是美漫英语，结果没想到是日文配音，就是翻译版本很迷，看样子倒不是因为译者能力不足，因为更难的句子都翻译的传神了，一些很简单的句子却要画蛇添足以至于意思都错了会严重影响观感。
不得不说动画表现比剧版强多了，虽然剧情一般
猎魔人世界的魅力，维瑟米尔年轻时居然这么骚。。
框架可以更大，可能经费原因吧，没那么燃，但是还是不错的
老爷子年轻时候也好帅啊 看到法印剑油好激动
本片與鍾孟宏的《瀑布》一脈相承，皆是描繪疫情時代的暗流湧動的家庭關係，亦是同樣改編真實事件，不同的是，《瀑布》所描繪是當下新冠疫情，而該片則是03年的非典年代。此片更多的是強調不同地區的文化衝突，並不侷限於家庭關係的緊張，但沒有《瀑布》像更深入刻畫時代背景變化，似乎更沉浸於家庭景觀的描繪，在劇情編排上也沒有和當下台灣的人情冷暖構成關聯，更是編導個人的生命體驗，更像是一部與時代脫節的個人作品。
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