我不是杀手

　　小女儿意外身亡，马克·休斯（祖舒华·克洛斯 Joshua Close 饰）带着妻子玛丽（塞尔玛·布莱尔 Selma Blair 饰）、儿子布兰登（奎恩·罗德 Quinn Lord 饰）驱车来到位于偏远山间的私宅，试图让短暂的假期弥合心头的伤口。不过他们的宁静很快被邻居萨卡斯基一家打破。相对于依然沉浸在悲伤中且有些疏离冷漠的休斯夫妇，萨卡斯基家的男主人鲍比（詹姆斯·达西 James D’Arcy 饰）和妻子珍（蕾切尔·敏纳 Rachel Miner 饰）显得有些过分热情，他们主动要求登门拜访，期间问东问西，令气氛诡异紧张。直到布兰登和鲍比的儿子杰瑞（阿莱克斯·费瑞斯 Alex Ferris 饰）发生冲突，别扭的家庭聚会戛然中止，不欢而散。
　　然而对于休斯一家来说，真正的噩梦才刚刚开始……

　　Contemporary Moscow. After a car accident, champion athlete Sergey Borozdin suddenly has a psychic ability to see past events. When he becomes a suspect in a series of murders, he is forced to use this ability to find the real killer.

　　Duccio Tessari's rare Giallo starring Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Evelyn Stewart, Silvano Tranquilli & Carole Andre. A young student is murdered in a park by an unseen assailant during a heavy thunderstorm. The murderer makes his escape, but is identified by a number of people at the park exit. A sports presenter from a local TV channel, Alessandro Marchi, is quickly arrested, and despite protestations of innocence, is charged with the murder.
　　Marchi calls his lawyer, who promises to have him released very soon, but when it comes to the trial the lawyers case is a weak one, full of holes, and Marchi is duly found guilty.
　　All is not what it seems and it soon becomes apparent that the lawyer is having an affair with Marchi's wife and obviously does not have Marchi's best interests at heart…

　　PANIC BEATS begins with a totally nude woman with welts on her body, running through a misty forest full of decayed skeletons. A knight on horseback is chasing her, and we soon learn that he is Alaric de Marnac (a wicked character Naschy first created for HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB), viciously killing her for her unfaithful ways. After the credits role, we are taken to the present where a descendent of Marnac named Paul (Naschy) is married to the wealthy Geneviève (Julia Saly) was has some serious heart problems. Paul decides to take her to his ancestral home in the country for some peace and quiet, but the superstitious-filled setting opens a Pandora’s Box of terrible occurrences.
　　We soon discover that Paul is a real son-of-a-bitch who plans to scare his wife to death, planning to control her fortune and continue his secret affair with seductive bad girl Mireille (Silvia Miró), who happens to be the niece of the tarot card-reading housekeeper, Mabile (Lola Gaos). Paul’s malevolent scheme works, but he still has to worry about an additional money-hungry mistress (this guy really gets around!), the unforgiving Mabile, as well as new fianceé Mireille who might be hiding a thing or two herself. More grisly murders follow, and the ghost of Marnac returns from hell to punish the most despicable human character in the film.
　　PANIC BEATS was also written by Naschy (under his real name Jacinto Molina) who injects the film with an old-fashioned spooky house motif, beefed up with a modern movie sense of violence and sexuality. The film offers nothing too innovative storywise, and even Naschy admits on the disc’s extras that it was partly inspired by GASLIGHT and REBECCA, but he seems to just toss in a hodgepodge of exploitation and horror ingredients, while delivering a stylish and enjoyable effort with a number of twists and some genuinely chilling moments. The camera shots and lighting are both effective, and there's even does a cool set-up (much like what Freddie Francis did in THE SKULL and THE CREEPING FLESH) where we see the point of view of Marnac through his dark helmet as he stalks his female prey. Graphically, we are exposed to everything from a plate of bloody eyeballs, to victims being beaten relentlessly with the various Medieval weapons affixed on the house’s walls (for example, someone is axed in the stomach, followed by the soaked entrails oozing out!). Naschy’s most frequent 1980s leading lady, Julia Saly, is not given much to do, but with her offbeat looks, is a nice presence nonetheless. The prominent female star here is Silvia Miró who is seen in the buff frequently, and she certainly makes for some well-appreciated Euro starlet eye candy. Naschy himself is very good in the film, putting on conniving facades, carrying a number of women on a string, 

　　贝丝（丽贝卡·豪尔 Rebecca Hall饰）在先生欧文（伊万·乔尼凯特 Evan Jonigkeit饰）过世后，独自住在先生生前为她所建造的湖边小屋中，虽然她努力维持正常的生活，但恶梦仍朝她袭来，她感受到屋内似乎有一些不寻常的动静，而在朋友的建议下试图从先生的遗物中 找寻答案，于是她决心解开这令人不安的秘密……

　　黑斯廷斯上尉应波洛之邀，在事隔多年后回到了现已是乡间旅馆的斯泰尔斯庄园——这对老朋友初次相遇并共同经历第一桩谋杀案件的地方。然而，令满心憧憬着与波洛及女儿朱迪斯相聚的上尉始料未及的是，比上次更加凶险的谋杀正等待着他的到来。原来，波洛追寻一个手法高超的谋杀犯来到此地，希望阻止罪行的发生。身体每况愈下的他要求黑斯廷斯的协助。但波洛拒绝透露凶手，只断定凶手就是旅馆中的某一个人……