同在一所大学念书的扎克(格莱格·赛普斯 Greg Cipes 饰)、凯特(马格·哈士曼 Margo Harshman 饰)、瑞夫(阿蒂·巴克斯特 Artie Baxter 饰)、维姬(凯瑞·芬克利 Carrie Finklea 饰)、艾丝莉(凯莉·维茨 Kelly Vitz 饰)相约前往某个山间的无人区度假,顺便淘淘金子大做发财梦。他们偶然迷路,在问路时听说了一个可怕的故事。据说曾经有一对15岁的双胞胎随同父母来到路人区玩耍,最终却引发恐怖的血腥谋杀。故事虽然可怕,但青年男女无所畏惧,执意前往无人区。
明媚的阳光和舒适的泉水山林让他们暂时忘掉了那个可怕的故事,但是随着夜幕降临,噩梦也如期而至,血腥杀手持刀前来……。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。