The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
只能说，茨维格的作品不好拍！但双线的拍法，内心戏的刻画，导演和演员已经尽力了！
这个故事教育了我们，家有贤妻，丈夫在外不做横事。以及，那个姑爷没死就挺遗憾的。
2022.4.28 題材很有意思，執行得也很盡，呈現方式來說是一部惡趣味的爽片，總覺得若剪接和聲效上再戲謔些或許能中和掉那些說不上哪裡冒出來的膈應感。部分鏡頭和剪接就很爽，但有些地方莫名產生不適。從導演的故事角度和給自己安排的角色看，肉食主義者無誤了吧哈哈哈哈哈，看完開始擔心我那些吃素的朋友了lol。3.5星
刀第一个时太卧槽了，伊朗肉很好吃啊，欲罢不能啊！
没读过茨威格的原著，看完有点懵逼，于是补了一些相关内容，于是给了4星。
弃局而退或是真正意义上的胜利。
拍得挺好玩，但收尾太仓促了。好象编不下去了，直接给结局；差点以为最后打出字幕“根据真实事件改编”！而且一对肉食店老板，明目张胆发传单、去素食集会，完全当没人认识自己呢？尺度颇大，一度断肢画面不适；不过马上又甩出断丁，变黑色幽默。所以谷饲牛肉鲜美是有道理的了？准女婿那种极端素食者真挺让人烦的，联想到素食妈妈饿死婴儿的现实新闻，让人下头。。。
越看越像闹剧可又畏手畏脚了，
很多cult片的侧重点全在暴力血腥上，故事完全没了逻辑可言，十部有九部我看完只会觉得被耍了，然而还不好发作，因为是cult片，cult仿佛成了一切合理不合理的挡箭牌。但这片子的血腥情节是就着故事发展很自然而然出现的，至少对观众的脑子态度放尊重了不少，我难得的能像看剧情片一样看一部血腥电影，并且还能随着对白发出爆笑，我还要什么自行车啊！
好久没有看到这么优秀的喜剧片了，尤其是配合着动物世界的部分
氛围的营造很成功，男主角演技非常精彩，撑起了整个故事，不然的话人物内心深度挖掘不够的缺点会更凸显。趁着场面混乱从推车上捞起一本书藏进衣服的场景令人震撼：精神生活的丧失是比褫夺人身自由更大的剥夺。
恶趣味的题材和不合时宜的搞笑段子，一切都停留在最原始的表面，很平庸。。
结局太惊悚和唏嘘了，竟然一切都是主人公的想象。。。
很少看法语片，风格很新奇，近期疫情期间为数不多的好恐怖片，多给一星
最后的茨威格，最后的奥地利，最后的美好年代知识分子的凋零怀旧。
人们天真地以为，只要维也纳还在跳舞，世界就不会毁灭。他们不知道，原来要将一个人摧毁，可以这般轻而易举，兵不血刃。而人类用了多少年，耗费多少智慧和精力，才建立起来的文明高塔，也同样如此脆弱，不堪一击…
真的很好笑，好久没看到这种冒犯性这么强的喜剧片了，生动活泼
走出酒店的一道光 和陪伴着他的棋谱都是spark
虽然后面的情节有点分量轻，但演员太给力了，翻译太tmd给力了！黄秋生的人肉叉烧包哈哈哈哈哈
三星半，太敢拍了，各种开炮阿哈哈，就是从男子‘良心发现’至电影结尾，剧情上有点泄力了
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