The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential. by D.R.
镜头不停地没逻辑切换实在令人看得又晕又烦躁，伪纪录片的形式不是不能用，但真的不要滥用，基本上又是个作死+献祭+亲情的故事，被说晦气的形式恰恰就是优于《灵媒》的优点，《灵媒》缺的就是这种联结感。民俗元素成了近几年台湾恐怖片的加分项，玩得越来越溜了。真心地说，华语恐怖片还得靠台湾。
很精妙的片子，用互动来给观众植入恐惧，利用视觉延迟来植入图案，心里暗示植入咒语… 等等。很少能看到上等华语恐怖片。说晦气然后打低分的是真的可笑，看恐怖片是为了图个吉利吗？只能说被拿捏了。
6/10。开场李若男邀请观者跟着念咒，把左右运动的摩天轮图案和列车影像想象为反向运动，即使盯着长达十秒的血色图腾消失后，依然闪烁着图腾的视觉残影，到了结尾满脸道符的李若男返回地道、掀开遮挡的红布后，观者被迫直视鬼佛母的深不见底的空脸，打破的第四堵墙将恐怖感外溢至每个人的心理，这体现出流传度、欺骗性更高的网络媒介对施咒的病毒式传播，也许媒介自身才是最具传染力的邪咒。但伪纪录的形式弊病恰好和去年的[灵媒]撞一块了，人物肆意地脱离随身相机能录制到的范围，例如小女孩被不可视的坏东西指引走到楼顶、跳出护墙拿刀一整段，没有显示跟拍的视点是谁发出的，后续机位的反复横跳已彻底违反了伪纪录的有限视角，最失真的是情节逻辑，道士老夫妇告诫李若男在做法的七天内给女孩吃喝会害死他们，却不加监管，对自身安危如此麻痹让人无语。
一首祖海的《好运来》送给每一个沾到晦气的大家
两段地穴祭坛部分的视觉呈现都比较不错，会让人联想到伊藤润二《无尽的迷路》被影像化后的样子。
今年＂最＂恐怖片 想看恐怖片的推荐 反正我不想看第二遍…妈的编剧太坏了 幸好没跟着读什么玩意
（4）。伪·伪纪录片，用脚都能拍。中国人不怕诅咒，中国人本身就是诅咒。
5/10 把大家叫出来，就为了这点事啊。 DV在拍煽情家庭录像混剪素材时还挺合适的，但这不伦不类的手持（动机、剪辑、配乐）到底有什么意义，就为了拍几段《逃生》pov复刻吗
作为单纯一部恐怖片，真好看！完成度真高！仿佛看到了2012年前后的泰国恐怖片那股劲头。片子里前后手持影像档案折来折去，让本来一条线走到底的故事饶有趣味。整个片子虽然还是伪纪录片，但实现了女主角自己操控的视角，她给你想让你看的，但最后也告诉所有人怎么一回事，有始有终。算是最近亚洲恐怖片里最名副其实的作品了，导演编剧挺实在，最后没绕关子，包袱全都出来了，但自然也不如《灵媒》云牵雾绕那般神秘了。失了韵味，但圆了故事。
只有诅咒观众还算有点意思，除此之外都乏善可陈。
致那微博中的火爆与讨论
破案了，女主好像海清…按这个逻辑，那大黑佛母岂不是……欧豪？！！擦，恐怖值-10000
题材挺好的 半纪录片了 当迷你剧随便看看吧 爱看女主演
说晦气什么的，是没经历过录像带时期的午夜凶铃么
题材挺好的 半纪录片了 当迷你剧随便看看吧 爱看女主演
都 不必隐藏
和灵媒的问题如出一辙，试图通过伪纪录片的形式营造更沉浸的氛围，可全摄像机视角却成了影片叙事最大的桎梏，机位的失真和露骨的设计感完全让人无法进戏，最后果然连煽情配乐都出来了，一开始还煞有介事地暗示信不信的问题就更显得有点好笑，所以还是那句话，今后想拍这类片的导演先好好学学怎么拍伪纪录片吧
场景氛围和民俗奇观邪得够带劲，桥段设计和美术视效也可圈可点。从“禁止入内的场所”到“绝对不能看到的面孔”再到“灵异视频Replay”，都是日本心霊类伪纪录恐怖片的招牌手法，包括最后所谓“晦气”的互动方式其实也是一种都市传说和民间怪谈的常见模式，恐惧感越过媒介和载体抵达观众内心，产生人人自危的恐怖效果。而很多看似不合常理的、刻意的摄影机位，实际上是为了成全这个结局和角色别有用心的意图的，而且也并非完全无法去解释（尽管自洽性没能做到百分百）；存在感过强的剪辑也是为了照顾观赏性。毕竟后伪纪录片时代，在已知其作为伪纪录片的前提下，还有多少人会“信以为真”、素材的所谓合理性是否仍占据绝对主导地位，这些问题还是有商榷空间的。
作为恐怖片我倒是能原谅他咒我，毕竟选择去看不就是找刺激么。其实是个歌颂母爱的片子，只是完全没讲女主为啥突然就要把孩子接回来，以及为啥接回来了才会出事。这一点上逻辑断裂的比较严重。有意思的地方是导演用了几个心理学上的视错觉图和视觉滞留，第一次在恐怖片里见到有人这么用，还蛮合适的。
所以我也被诅咒了吗？（咒文翻译的那里很妙，因为一直看中间的字，到最后突然白屏时，那个图案被眼睛记住了，所以屏幕上都是那个图案）
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