玛莎嫁到了一个村落, 这村落是信仰宗教的赫梯人, 对於玛莎这位非教徒充满排斥。 她因为遇到重大的悲痛事件, 邀请她的两位女性朋友们,从洛杉矶过来度假陪伴,但三人不约而同变成了被谋害的靶子.魔鬼的来临使得村落中阴风阵阵, 惊悚刺骨. 这部片算是宗教恐怖片, 意谓在邪教对於人们的心理恐惧(听说是Wes Craven半自传电影) Deadly Blessing 是美国恐怖片名导 Wes Craven 早期作品, 是继『杀人不分左右』及『隔山有眼』後, 於1981年的电影作品, 全片充满Cult的风味. 以美女众多为特色的恐怖片.。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.。