American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
影片氛围不错，挺有特点的，小演员演技都挺不错。别的就很一般了。剧情比较平淡，惊悚恐怖主要靠jump scare。
密室逃脱，找不到解谜线索时工作人员就会通过电话提示。明明只有表层的体力活动在运行，却自诩开发儿童智力。
四十度的大热天儿喝是枝裕和牌温水，和我们身边的“社会调剂”、“邵氏孤儿”像是直接把你扔冷柜里，哪个才是电影啊？
20页短篇扩充成100分钟的长片，扩充后的那句“It’s for you”反而不如原作有爆发力，而且金味重了好多，尽管伊桑霍克的表演足够骇人
看完有一种微妙的感觉，就是为了一碟醋包了饺子，但这醋也不是镇江香醋，就是寻常超市的便宜醋罢了。
其實應該給四顆星。整體表現沒有那麽好，但是本片題材不經意沾了當前國際局勢的光，非常討巧。修女主角對上帝是否存在的痛苦思索非常觸動我。
经济版《小丑回魂》，不过乔·希尔真是和老爹的写作太像了，标志性元素几乎完全重叠，有趣的是，如果把这部电影看作他自己的一个反叛寓言，也是一个合理的解读，片中的超自然元素与现实的流畅融合算是一大亮点。
6.2/10 把电话作为通灵媒介也太…俗了吧
果然孩子们还是善良，是我在凶手睡着的时候就直接扎破他的颈动脉再逃走
兒童的部分用兒童的視角來演繹，充滿童貞，但最後反而更沉重。
4.0，细节节奏台词演员如此完美，摄影写实的应该是没有打灯（现实主义应该有的样子，不美化不矫揉造作），我喜欢，就是结尾实在太完美了，是是枝裕和年老了嘛？对人性有的善意了吗？“是枝裕和近年来愈发心慈手软了，敛锋藏芒的他甚至连一根芒刺都不愿轻易施诸于故事与人物之上。”
只有最后的10分钟是精彩的，前面所有的线索集中到一起助小男孩反杀真的有被爽到，至于中间就比较单薄无聊。看完此片后陷入深深的焦虑，对于动手能力和智慧都为0的我来说如果被绑架是别想逃出去了
爆炸前那几秒真让人绝望。
后半段情绪像洪水一样倾斜，演员表现力太强了
战争无论性质，都必然会给平民带来伤害和阴影。
喜歡是枝大概有一大半是因為喜歡他對生命和家庭的闡述。對，比起在出生後拋棄，在他還沒來到這個世界前打掉他的罪沒有比較輕。#兒童節不要墮胎
“总有一天，你得站出来保护你自己。”
最后一幕的长镜头，我的心随着母亲的表情一同起伏。影后级别的表演。
导演是为了废墟救人的一段爬行戏所以特地找无骨人Ivar来演的吗
暗黑魔幻童话。占大篇幅的地牢囚禁既非《电锯惊魂1》般惊悚残酷，亦非《科洛弗道10号》般斗智斗勇，五个受害小孩通过墙上的“无线”电话轮流教男主如何一步步设计逆袭绑架犯，警探破案全靠男主妹妹梦中通灵，绑架犯除了戴个难看的鬼面外毫无压迫感（好吧开锁那里还是让人屏住呼吸的）。结尾反杀很爽，有个双屋诡计（拙劣得不算诡计，本可以误导得非常出彩的），然后就是平铺直叙的校园霸凌、家庭暴力、家人团聚等老元素。绑架犯的兄弟死得就和《闪灵》里的厨师一样冤。
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