童谣本应该充满欢声笑语,但世界上偏偏有这么一些童谣,让人听了毛骨悚然。小镇拉文斯•法尔就流传着这样一个恐怖的童谣:小心来自玛丽•肖的凝视;她没有孩子,只有玩偶;如果你看到她,不要尖叫;否则她会扯开你的嘴巴撕掉你的舌头。这个小镇一直就在笼罩在这个童谣的诅咒之下,只要有玩偶出现的地方,就有人遇害,死状一样,都是舌头被割下。 吉米(瑞恩•科万顿 Ryan Kwanten 饰)和萨丽新婚不久,就决定搬离这个受诅咒的地方,但最终萨丽还是没有逃脱这个诅咒。悲伤不已的吉米决定送妻子的尸骸返回家乡,并着手调查这个笼罩在整个小镇头上的恐怖诅咒。随着调查的深入,吉米发现了这首童谣背后的另一个真相。
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals.
"King of the Ants" is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer Chris McKenna), a man without any aspiration who just live in his apartment doing the necessary job to live to the next day. In one of his jobs he meets Duke(Gearge Wendt), who introduces Sean to his boss, Ray Matthews(played by Daniel Baldwin). Ray hires Sean as a spy, and orders him to follow Eric Gatlin(Roy Livingstone), an accountant who has been investigating Ray's company. Problems start when Ray, while drunk, orders Sean to kill Eric. And he does it. Things go wrong when Ray decides to make Sean disappear destroying his mind with violent punishment and humiliation.
From the point where Sean kills Eric, we go in the same boat with him, as he goes through a downward spiral of human degradation, traveling from guilt, to confusion and finally to his rebirth, in a state where humanity, morals and values are not important anymore. Chris McKenna acting is very important because he manages to be likable even when he is part of gruesome acts, both as victim and/or criminal. He has that look of innocence that hides a dark side and he manages to carry the film.
The support cast also includes Kari Wuhrer, as Eric's widow who also becomes a central part of Sean's trip to hell. She gives a fine performance, although it's obvious that Sean is the main character. He is the most developed of all and McKenna's performance is up to the challenge.
The film has very disturbing images of violence, and while it may not be as graphic as "Kill Bill" for example, the strength of the violence is in the lack of humanity that the character manifest. He is more than an ant in this world. He is the king.
Stuart Gordon has managed to create a film that, while maybe it's not one of his best efforts; it's very well done, has a VERY interesting story to tell, and manages to capture the attention every second of it.
19世纪初,名叫贝莉·吉尼斯的寡妇住在美国印第安纳一座偏远农场中。她勾引男人,然后谋财害命,成为名噪一时的杀人女魔头。
时间转入现代,贝莉的故事即将搬上银幕。有幸出演这一角色的正是三年前因感情破裂而息影的女明星莉贝卡·费尔班克斯(伊丽莎白·赫莉 Elizabeth Hurley 饰),与之演对手戏的则是她当年的男友杰克·贾尔德斯(杰瑞米·西斯托 Jeremy Sisto 饰)。三年的岁月并未冲淡莉贝卡对杰克的爱恋,随然对方已有妻室,然她的目光中仍然流露出无尽缱绻。在拍戏过程中,莉贝卡似乎渐渐触及到贝莉的灵魂,她入戏越来越深,而这也极大影响了她和周围人的生活……
The PUPPET MASTER series finally concludes with its seventh, and straight-to-video, sequel THE LEGACY. Comprised mostly of clips from the previous features, the film centers around Eric Weiss (Jacob Witkin) the little boy saved by toymaker Andre Toulon in PUPPET MASTER 3. Now a grown man in pursuit of Toulon's secret for animating objects, Weiss relates the puppets' history--through flashbacks and archival footage from the first six sequels--to a woman named Maclain (Kate Orsini), unaware that the mysterious beauty is really an assassin out to destroy the puppet master's legacy
因某种原因,17岁的男孩丹恩·汤姆森(克里斯·凯利 Chris J. Kelly 饰)随着母亲苏珊(泰瑞·波罗 Teri Polo 饰)和弟弟卢卡斯(内森·甘宝 Nathan Gamble 饰)搬离喧嚣的布鲁克林,来到一座幽静小镇居住。虽然离开了朋友们,小镇生活也有些枯燥,好在邻居的女孩茱莉·坎贝尔(海莉·贝内特 Haley Bennett 饰)性感魅力,丹恩烦躁的心稍显平静。某天,兄弟俩打闹时无意间在杂物间发现一个深不见底的洞穴。
此后不久,卢卡斯和与兄弟俩熟捻的茱莉相继遭遇奇怪恐怖的事情,他们更在光天化日下看见一个双眼流血的小女孩。三人开始有意识地探究这幢房子和黑洞的过去,由此也唤醒了沉睡已久的恐怖……