Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
前半段刻意强调狐妖的真实性，后半段却又刻意弱化，强调狐妖从来没出现过，但是似乎又什么都知道。
三星半，身体和技术相互映照的发展关系，不知道晚期的柯南伯格的人物本身都变成了场景奇观还是他确实不会写动作了。剔除科幻概念的吸引力故事框架挺像侦探电影的。
挺好的，模仿罗生门的结构，多视角叙事，有其结尾彩蛋，剧本确实用心了。看到好多人说电影劣质感，抱歉我真没觉得，我感觉灯光舞美道具美术创造的氛围感足够了，很明显八九十年代老港片美术风格的特征，这是一套视觉风格而不是劣质，镜头语言也不是简单的正反打大特写，有一幕从篝火延伸的视角用的很妙。一部网大做成这样很不错了，奇树有鱼可以的。
真的有点意思，现在大陆的恐怖片都是用来传递正能量的，这部是善恶到头终有报。
一开始以为是沉浸式卡夫卡，后来发现是真没看懂。。。
一开始的拍摄手法和音乐就让人代入情境，故事内容完整，紧张的情节有张力，结尾有前后呼应。
超出预期，用了罗生门的叙事手法，有中国特色的志怪故事，落点在揭露人性丑恶，物理惊吓有一部分，细思极恐的也努力做了，确实是上乘之作。
非常惊喜的国产恐怖片 几乎没什么槽点 在审核如此严格的情况下拍成这样非常不容易了 貌似鬼片 其实更是讲人性 人比鬼可怕
说话太多 讲得太白 太scifi了 不够神秘主义
怪诞的未来科幻设想，但是还是昏昏欲睡，艺术和哲学内涵也不是我能理解的，就此别过。
极致生物美学，非常景观社会，肯定也能引发Giger迷异形迷恋物癖极大舒适，骨肉机械的啮合。K的演技为啥越来越膈应人了。
论怪异程度确实比《钛》更胜一筹，但除此之外便什么都没有了。北美影人天生缺乏一种气质，这种气质有时候是一种疯狂有时候是一种浪漫，更多时候是一种美。他们看起来似乎一直在拍一种令人咋舌或令人倾佩的影片，但实质上却是顺从且乖巧的（或者说是没有人格魅力有点土气老气）。欧洲电影恰恰相反，极度不完美，但却常常有一种野性之美让整部影片与美国电影彻底区分开来。这也是《钛》最大的优点。
对未来的另类书写，手术演化为一种新式性爱。
网大能有这个水准完全吊打电影院那些破玩意了，里面有一些八恶人罗生门的味儿，最后的结局有点僵尸的意思。
没想到剧本还不错诶，盲人摸象，每个人都只看到自己的那部分，拼凑起来竟然还算圆满。给网大一点鼓励
挺好了，观感没有大问题。愈发痛恨农村的各种人事，只能说能躲远点就躲远点吧。
复仇片，叙事借鉴了许多国外电影，又很像七八十年代的血浆片。本来挺不错，可惜把人性说的过于丑恶，没有美的点缀，丑又有何用呢？这个故事大打折扣
lazy exposition多到完全不像柯能堡，对自己以往元素的再运用也没有edgelord的气魄了。恐怕这部才是真的接近video essay。(以及对 body art的想象似乎也并没有超越80年代的stelarc
9.2 A extremely dangerous method，当然是柯南堡创作生涯的新高度，以如此低密度的情节拍这样一部关于人类进化的环保寓言注定是毁誉参半的，关键在于它触及了之前从未深入的问题，及身体异变如何作为内在的核心而非表层的意向，结尾真美。
柯南伯格一拍脑门又想出个牛逼的故事梗概，可惜老年男性的想象力实在有限，除了展示人体器官以外也做不出什么惊世骇俗的东西，于是让演员用故弄玄虚的气泡音从头到尾说形容词。由于本片的衬托，《钛》更加牛逼了。
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