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.
节奏很紧凑的一部电影，历史从来都是把张伯伦和绥靖政策联系在一起，这部片子倒是提供了新的可以加入分析的因素，但谁知道啊，这是一本虚构小说……
真的不知道哪来的优越感。
在电影院看的3D，真是一部很燃的印度手撕鬼子的抗英神剧。剧情很棒，让人又哭又笑。这导演确实很牛，拍的片子几乎每部都是爆款。
捧年轻人效果不错，英国人讲绥靖……呃……故事没啥意思！
我们还在微博因为战争互相吵架
没人喜欢战争
很难想象为什么会有杰尼斯这样一个长的性感说话也性感的人，所有英文台词都苏到爆炸
我们不能选择所处的时代，我们只能选择如何回应。
张伯伦的初心是好的，但是太过善良的人别搞政治。
Jessica Brown Findlay好漂亮啊
好看的电影和可恶的revisionist history
角度很有意思
不要看历史怎么样，就从电影出发，我觉得蛮精彩的。
虽然剧情非常狗血、歌舞也很多余，但音乐和特效不错。讲真的，不考虑地心引力，有的动作场面拍的比漫威的好看。
3.7。一个字！绝！你们印度人还真是把身体运用到了极致。特别是斗舞和两人合体那段。。。兄弟情谊感动了我，动作戏真的好有趣。剧情真的不合理，英军枪法都是什么人体描边大师？？三个小时一点我没打瞌睡，我真的爱印度电影。
印度被英國殖民的辛酸血淚史、抗戰革命史，3個小時一次道盡。特別喜歡序幕將兩大男主角用水與火的意象去做刻畫與對比，水與火永不相容，但是當水與火相容的那一天，便是起兵反抗之時。真沒想到同個月可以看到兩部甘古拜的電影，她真的越看越美欸！
演员的演技都不错，作为战争片的虚构部分的确可创作的空间不大，演员的演技给电影增添了不少张力。
阿三版抗日神剧。抗英剧
我对历史题材小说改编的电影总是很宽容，不需要逻辑严谨，最后能圆出一个好玩的结局就行。是配乐和镜头语言把这部电影救回及格线的，小酒馆聚会和牛津派对又弄成美则美矣的鸡肋了，最后俩男主分食一根烟怪浪漫的，谁让我就是喜欢这种cliche。把女性角色塑造成隐藏辅助才是年代剧的正确打开方式，三个女人各有各的坚韧与勇敢，同时也起到了不可或缺的作用。吐槽女性角色还不如吐槽男主，性格如白纸做主线任务能力又差，简直独自carry起观众的血压。总而言之，当个剧情/惊悚故事看看得了，品一品人间真情（“希望就是等待别人救你，所以最好不要”），非要求不偏不倚也太蛋疼了吧。
靖绥政策是为盟国争取了时间备战这一点要遭到两个质疑。首先如果当时英法没有准备好开战，德国也没有；其次，后来的历史证明，法国准备好了也没用。。。
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