A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's 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 won't 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 he's 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. It's 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 don't 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.
男主很有型 片子虽沉闷 手法却是我喜欢的类型
欲观牌桌风云变，半途杀出复仇男。
仍能看到些美国电影的旧日荣光，当然不觉得足以和Taxi Driver相提并论，详细不展开了。期待施拉德还会与斯科塞斯合体搞创作，不是老马挂个制片名头的这种。
7.2冷静克制的描述虐囚丑闻，威廉的戏太少，演技无从发挥
以为是和扑克比赛有关的剧情，其实内核是反对监狱暴力和部队黑暗面，不过整体有种闷闷的气氛，男主的选择有种鱼死网破的决绝。能算牌的概率，却无法掌控自己的人生啊。
看守的ptsd和士兵战后ptsd
摄影和配乐都很好，但是故事不够戏剧化，多了真实感，却过于平淡让人食之无味，弃之可惜。
身体，灵魂，自我折磨（内疚、苦行、救赎...)，以及美国人的身份和对布列松的热爱：施拉德总在书写具有相似度的人物。美国先生几乎要立刻掌握了最高财富，在一个后911（居然在20周年的时候上映）、后伊拉克的时代，美国人将投入多少筹码到自己的国家？又或是伤害自己作为向国家的报复，酒店或许只是自我流放之地，获得救赎的概率微乎其微，去除了上一部的那些宗教因素，宗教之外的症结在哪？在最后，救赎只会以爱的形式出现，隔着监狱的两只手，在静态平面中身体在连续运动中暂停，这《创世纪》一般的姿势将某种自我意识神话化，试图集中所有唤起一些力量。在此之前的人物只是不会带来浸入感的空的容器，当然也是一种“布列松式的紧缩”—已经没人像这样拍电影了—如艾萨克工整清晰、纪律严明的手写文字，看上去没什么稀奇的也看似已经过时了。
这个赌王不太冷。赌王线和复仇线双线把控，都停在肾上腺素飙升的临界点，简而言之就是看起来不太爽。在平凡的故事线对比之下，人物多了很多细节描写，用布家具把所有家具包裹起来的癖好，结尾发现是反派教官的癖好；google地图看到的反派教官家门口照片，成为结尾处小跟班深入敌营的线索... 就连随时擦枪走火的情侣，也要眉来眼去到最后。
沉闷的ptsd影片，理解不了情节背后的逻辑。。。
牌局与社会进程共行，人可以离去，赌注但不能停。孤寂的新地形摄影延伸至电影，从影调到白色幕布，它们概括的不止是现代社会本身，还包括经济下一系列的衍生物。话说没风格就是最大的风格，而21世纪的人类恰巧就属于前者，但当视角转移到酷刑方面，人类却充满了“创意”，那我怎么能用“动物性”来描述幕布后的血腥呢？
stay away from FOCUS company, which is famous of producing profound, meaningful, well acted but ... extremely BORING films!
就，看到最后二三十分钟前其实都还不错，结尾拍的太空了（？就让整部电影显得有点弱智起来……
故事的抽离加分，但总体感觉上有点儿明显的刻意。赌场上的USA必胜叫人忍俊不住
本质是复仇片，赌博作为男主逃避和麻痹自我的作用完全没拍出来，就是单纯冷冰冰的在赌牌。赌博和复仇的部分割裂实在太严重。感情戏十分差劲，男主与男二的伪父子情戏码，和女主的伪爱情戏码都毫无火花，男二稍微好一点，女主偏喜剧演技与男主的表演以及整部电影的风格格格不入。
杰作！影片相当稳，非常符合个人口味，迷离疏远的音乐配合全片营造的气氛，还有特有的镜头感，使得观赏成了一种享受。本片其实是以赌牌为背景，主要细致展现主角的内心世界，逐步将主角的过往慢慢展现，主题是赎罪和自我救赎，并且以爱情为调料，总体上故事又不落俗套，本年度年末观影的一大惊喜发现。
很意外很惊喜，空间的推拉固定，对观众的勾引挑衅，氛围的营造，都非常喜欢。尤其喜欢一种理科生一样的固定逻辑式的场景镜头，奥斯卡伊萨克也很有魅力。至于剧情，不需要为什么，感受就好。
too concentrated，人物所处的环境是很凸现的，人在其中走总是想要去到哪里，然而没能卸下这股力，通道是紊乱的。
看着还不错的卡司阵容，装得特深沉地演了个B级片。
算牌是一层幌子，掩盖了痛苦，在Cirk那条短信后创口被活生生撕裂血肉模糊，走向黑暗的方向，我看的时候整个人都在抖。结尾有点看到《好时光》，“I’ll take you home”，对这种注脚是爱与温情的实在没有抗拒力。对伤痛电影的理解愈发深刻了….
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