Teenaged siblings Girly and Sonny lure young men back to their home to meet the eccentric Mumsy and Nanny. There, the men are forced to take part in strange games, the rules of which are never defined - and if they refuse, or transgress the unwritten rules, they're killed. But they may have met their match in New Friend, their latest victim, who starts to manipulate the foursome, setting one against the other. Bizarre combination of late sixties avant garde and sleaze. Director Freddie Francis had made horrors for both Hammer and Amicus but this is nothing like any of them. Shot on location with an atmosphere mixing playground horror and conservatory theatre that is downright weird and unsettling. The great lost girl of sixties British horror, Vanessa Howard, shines as she does in those other rarely seen gems Corruption [1967] and What Became of Jack and Jill [1972]. If Harold Pinter had made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] for the BBC this could have resulted. Excellent and unique.
影片由家喻户晓的科恩兄弟导演,电影原声大碟获得第44届格莱美最佳年度专辑大奖。 30年代初,密西西比州荒野的监狱里,唠唠叨叨、油嘴滑舌的艾弗瑞特(乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰)整天打着各种逃跑的鬼主意。在成功说服了狱友——头脑简单的德尔玛(蒂姆·布雷克 ·尼尔森 Tim Blake Nelson 饰)和贼大胆的皮特(约翰·特托罗 John Turturro 饰)之后,艾弗瑞特的越狱大计终于得以实现,三个穿着犯人服、拖着手铐、脚镣的罪犯叮叮当当地踏上了通往自由之路。据艾弗瑞特说,在密西西比河边还埋藏有一大笔赃款赃物。 逃亡途中,他们不仅要对付各种各样令人棘手的突发事件,还要与追捕他们的执法官库利斗智斗勇。这个锲而不舍的家伙发誓要把这三个“脱网之鱼”送回监狱。这一路上意外不断,状况百出,究竟他们能否获得真正的自由?