最近搬进新家的秀贤(申惠善饰),通过二手交易APP买了一个二手洗衣机,却发现洗衣机无法使用。秀贤对卖家不负责任的态度感到生气,因此发表评论指控卖家是个骗子。没想到秀贤周遭自此发生许多怪事,甚至还发现了一具尸体……
最近搬进新家的秀贤(申惠善饰),通过二手交易APP买了一个二手洗衣机,却发现洗衣机无法使用。秀贤对卖家不负责任的态度感到生气,因此发表评论指控卖家是个骗子。没想到秀贤周遭自此发生许多怪事,甚至还发现了一具尸体……
高中生Wendy(Mary Elizabeth Winstead饰)与友人一起去游乐场庆祝毕业,大家玩得十分痛快。游乐场内灯火璀璨,却诡异处处。在坐上过山车的座椅时,Wendy忽然看到了怪异现象,心生恐怖,男友Jason安慰她不过是幻觉。过山车开动起来,可是在半空中突然出轨,大家倒挂空中。Wendy眼看着朋友一个一个坠落死亡,自己也不能幸免于难。
被同学的吆喝喊醒的Wendy惊觉刚才不过是幻觉,但是她忧心忡忡,力阻大家离开过山车。虽然遭到大家的嘲笑,但是事后证明这是正确的选择。过山车就如同Wendy看到的一样出事了。
然而,逃过一劫的少男少女们并没有脱离死神的魔掌。他们接二连三地死去。Wendy发现这一切都与在游乐场的一张照片有关。为了生存,她开始了与死神的搏斗。
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
When go-go dancer Lucía nicks a fortune in designer drugs from her mafia employers, the mobsters’ dogged pursuit forces her to seek sanctuary with her estranged sister Rocío and niece Alba in “The Venus,” a decrepit apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid. As terrible, rotten, no-good luck would have it, Lucía soon finds herself sole guardian to little Alba after Rocío suddenly flies the concrete coop, unable to handle the supernatural stress of living in a monolith that is apparently also host to a malignant evil — one that invades its tenants’ waking nightmares.
Taking a few cues from H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House,” "Venus" piles on the blood and bombshells like a double bill of "Demons 2" and "The Sentinel".