Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the on-going affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay befriends a troubling serial killer.
安德烈(阿列克塞·古斯科夫 Aleksei Guskov 饰)被盛赞为音乐天才,曾经当过俄国最伟大的交响乐团“波修瓦”的著名的乐队指挥。但因拒绝驱逐乐团里的犹太乐手,包括他最好的朋友——沙查(迪米特里·纳扎罗夫 Dmitri Nazarov 饰)而被解雇,染上了酗酒的毛病。“波修瓦”现在的经理为了愚弄和羞辱安德烈,让他留在乐团当清洁工。安德烈在无意之中发现了一份传真,法国巴黎最大的普莱耶音乐厅邀请“波修瓦”去演出,要求在两周之内给予回复。安德烈突然想到了一个疯狂的计划,他要把以前的那些音乐伙伴重新聚拢起来。被乐团流放之后,他们现在已经变成了一群混杂在莫斯科街头的最普通的人,从出租车司机、搬运工、跳蚤市场的地摊摊主到色情电影的配音演员,做的都是勉强维持生活的底层工作。他们决定顶替真正的“波修瓦”去巴黎,要向一切不公正的待遇展开复仇……
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.