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.
凡所有相，皆是虚妄，浮华的巴黎勾起的欲念如同海市蜃楼，终会幻灭。喜欢简单通俗易懂的叙事方式
我觉着吧，这部片子要和《法兰西》一起看 200年前的法国，和现在的法国，同样充满着谎言的媒体，除了钱他们什么都不需要
主角竟是旁白，即无文学深度，又无戏剧张力，工工整整好在制作精良
一个城乡结合部青年，凭借着天赋和野心，在魔都历幻，在红尘历劫。金钱与名誉的游戏，权力与欲望的魔法，赤裸裸呈现。强盗在他们的城堡论功行赏，歌女在锦绣的舞台期待掌声。游动的笔尖投出标枪，尊严的铠甲被击得粉碎。华袍之内跳蚤密布，面具之下包藏祸心。满堂猪狗，走兽活猴。哗啦啦大厦倾，俱尘灰满面，断壁颓垣，残肢哀嚎不忍听。
虽然旁白实在太多
“巴尔扎克原著在导演的适当改编下对社会做出的辛辣讽刺放到当下任何一个国家环境中都毫不过时（大量的独白暴露了导演只能被原著牵着鼻子而画地而趋地搬运使得电影变成了一部名著有声书）；忠于原著对人物进行了细腻刻画以及对历史的华丽复刻使得故事工整精巧（不会做减法导致整部电影的繁枝细节沉闷冗长且令人乏味）”——在海上的两个评论家如是说道。
拍得太直白了，禁不起咂摸，残酷的生存法则适用于个人命运和整个人类社会
过气演员大联欢。也许19世纪的东西真的不适合21世纪了。我们看巴尔扎克，就像剧里的人拿脏水泼的拉辛一样陈腐。想起老王说19世纪，the nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass; the nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
这不就是完全可以拿电影里的话来评价这部电影嘛。不好意思我唱衰，我觉得没有吧这个无解性拍出来，那么幻想就是咎由自取，我对让我人物毫无同期，女性角色太扁平。
UGC发邮件邀请的神秘首映，去看之前连是哪部片都不晓得。印象中很少看这种法国古装电影。
等到揭露大前提，就必须要面对这个创作本身的问题。不过整体上对老式西部故事的气质把控还是挺不错的。
往往，得到一切的代价，远远大于失去一切的代价。
7.5分，首先从电影整体上来讲，个人觉得完全可以拍出一部史诗作品，这其中并不只是增加一倍的时长，而是有关于法国大革命后，人们在受到以权力、名利、金钱等代表的物欲的诱惑下，逐渐舍弃了最初的爱与信仰、理想与真诚、善良与正直等正向价值这一宏大且深刻的社会现实，在此其中的素材可挖掘的太多了，因此本片拍的有些不够深入，某些人物如内森就没有好好刻画，引用的旁白也过多了，完全可以通过具体的影像来呈现，否则只是文学作品的影像化罢了。ps：巴尔扎克笔下的巴黎和伍迪·艾伦的巴黎，真像是现实与理想的距离。
其实多兰演得不错，没有拿凯撒奖最佳男配很可惜。女配演男主老婆的有点弱。
男主画上烟熏妆那个镜头我真的一个爆笑，导演感觉没有太多想象力，电影本身中规中矩，旁白过多甚至有偷懒的嫌疑，无奈巴尔扎克的故事太过扎实，两个半小时丝毫不觉冗长。有机会补个原著。
如果你对出版充满向往却毫无经验，不妨看看巴尔扎克这本前情预告。在你满怀希望想要进入一个陌生领域时，这本书无疑是你起航前的暴风雪，凛冽的寒风一定会打在你的心上。作家淋漓尽致地展现了这一行业的现象及你这样的人可能遭遇的挫折，他那个年代的事如今依然在发生。每年都会有一批年轻的野心家，受着同样的热忱鼓动，扬着脸，逞着傲气，去心中的圣地，就算像你这样的人不是越来越多，但你们的遭遇相仿：掉入苦难的沟壑，报界的泥坑，书业的沼泽。如果你对作家揭露的堕落腐化的实质不去体会，仍决心起航，像吕西安一样说：“非打胜仗不可！”那摆在你面前的就是两条路：一条漫长，清白，但也孤独；一条是出卖良心却安全可靠…信心把年轻人的幻想鼓动得如醉如狂，自以为力量大得不得了，殊不知即将到来的幻灭。（感激每个时代默默出好书的人，太不易了
主角竟是旁白，即无文学深度，又无戏剧张力，工工整整好在制作精良
这样的剧作堪称经典，不仅是对社会中的尔虞我诈、勾心斗角、世态炎凉的精准刻画，亦是对那样一种社会体系的描绘，这种作品的经典之处在于其不因社会形态的变化而消失，却随之在人世间何种阶段都会不断复演——经典永不过时…🥃
“你可以从长处上去挑毛病，向来是机智的做法。”
这部电影非常得有意思，两个小时就把一个屌丝逆袭又倾覆的故事讲清楚了。人们有时候觉得是自己在掌控自己的命运，其实你周围的一切都会影响你的想法，迫使你放弃某些东西，为了融入某些环境，所以命运掌握在自己手中其实是个幻觉吧……打算把巴尔扎克的原著找来读读
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