死魂盒

和驱魔类的恐怖片差不多的一部。
不过这片子有几处还是不错的。
选取的家庭背景很普遍——父母离异，一个女儿正值叛逆期另一个乖巧而听话，家庭的裂痕容易导致最内向的一个被忽略，也更容易导致家庭成员之间的不信任。
小演员很漂亮，演技也不错。
驱魔时的灯光效果做的还是不错的，既减少了制作经费，又达到了效果，和硬邦邦的显示高超的电脑特技的效果也差不到哪里去。
总之……这片子还好吧……能看得下去，不会有拖进度条的欲望。
另，结尾告诉我们，开车时不要打电话，蓝牙也不行（新交规V5）；过马路时先看看左右，尤其是没有路灯的时候；恐怖片总是要留尾巴的，如果没有，那就耐心等到音乐字幕结束（最后一条纯属有感而发）

Maybe mischievous spirits do haunt this Jewish scroll cabinet, or maybe it's just another Web-spawned legend run wild.
July 25, 2004|Leslie Gornstein | Special to The Times


A small wooden cabinet went up for auction on EBay. Inside were two locks of hair, one granite slab, one dried rosebud, one goblet, two wheat pennies, one candlestick and, allegedly, one "dibbuk," a kind of spirit popular in Yiddish folklore.

The seller, a Missouri college student named Iosif Nietzke, described the container as a "haunted Jewish wine cabinet box" that had plagued several owners with rotten luck and a spate of bizarre paranormal stunts.

"We have definitely seen a tidal wave of 'bad luck,' " the seller wrote on EBay in the first week of February. "Most disturbingly, last Tuesday, my hair began to fall out. I'm in my early 20s and I just got a clean blood test back from the doctor's...."

Within days, the box's opening bid of $1 jumped to $50; that value soon quadrupled. On Feb. 9, the box sold for $280 to a university museum curator named Jason Haxton.

In the months after, the hype surrounding the wooden box has mushroomed. The Forward, a 107-year-old Jewish newspaper on the East Coast, ran a story about the box's sale and supposed otherworldly powers. Since then, the EBay auction page has logged more than 140,000 hits.

At least five authors, one screenwriter and a documentary crew have sought up-close access, says Haxton, a 46-year-old father of two who also lives in Missouri. Rabbis, Orthodox Jews and Hebrew intellectuals have contacted Haxton, offering to crack the box's mysteries.

Haxton says he's had to unlist his home number, change his e-mail address and erect a website, www.dibbukbox.com, just to field inquiries. He agreed to be interviewed only if he could add this request: Please, please, box fans, leave him alone.

The strange case of the bogey in a box is threatening to become an urban legend as big as any ghostly hitchhiker, fried rat or stolen body part. In Chicago, Bull basketball fans have paused their online arguments over salary caps to post theories on what's in the box. Ditto with newsgroups usually dedicated to Subaru ownership or NASCAR tickets. In Long Island, a group of particularly dedicated ghost hunters has founded a Yahoo chat group dedicated solely to the box.

All the while, dozens of Web surfers have e-mailed Haxton through his website, complaining of strange headaches, nightmares and other plagues.

"One person pleaded with me to get all images of the box off the Internet because they would provide an electronic portal for the spirit into every computer that visited the site," he says.

Most often, discussions of dybbuks (as it is more commonly spelled) are accompanied by plenty of snorting skepticism -- "I think I'm going to put my haunted Game Cube on EBay," one Texan recently posted -- but the number of those fascinated with the little wooden box continues to climb.

The reason, experts say, is tied to a witch's brew of trends and developments unique to the new millennium: A booming blog culture; a growing interest in Jewish mysticism, particularly cabala; and high-speed Internet connections that allow photos to be downloaded onto countless home computers.

Dybbuks have haunted Yiddish folk tales since the dawn of Judaism's mystical movement in the latter half of the 16th century. "Dybbuk" literally means "an attachment, a cleaving to something"; a dybbuk is thought to be the spirit of a person who, instead of drifting into the next realm, sticks around and enters the bodies of living people.

"It's essentially a kook subject," muses Rabbi Eli Schochet, a professor of rabbinic thought at L.A.'s Academy for Jewish Religion, which trains rabbis and cantors. "But I could never say that it's impossible because, obviously, there's precedent for these things that are recorded in different religious traditions, including my own."

The EBay auction page (still viewable on Haxton's website) claims to document experiences from two previous owners, told in the first person and pasted back to back in the item's description space.

The tale, according to the site, began in fall 2001, when Oregon antiques collector and small-business owner Kevin Mannis discovered the box -- smaller than a case of beer, decorated with two metal plates in the shape of grape clusters -- at a neighborhood estate sale. (Mannis later told The Times he bought the box in 2000, but so much bad fortune befell him in that first year that he didn't want to tell potential buyers about it.)

Mannis said the estate sale's host told him that the box had belonged to her 103-year-old grandmother, who had dubbed the cabinet a "dybbuk box" and warned her kids ... never to open it.

Heedless of this spooky back story, Mannis bought the box and put it in the basement of his antiques business. A half-hour after the box arrived, the creepiness, as he describes it, began: While Mannis ran a few errands, a mysterious force apparently went berserk in his shop, cursing and smashing light bulbs and scaring a store clerk.

"When I got back to the shop, I went to investigate," Mannis says from his Oregon home. "I remember heading toward the back and walking into what I can only describe as a wall of scent. It smelled like jasmine flowers. You could take one more step and not smell a thing, and take a step backward and be surrounded by it again."

Later, he says, when he gave the box to his mother as a gift, she suffered a stroke that temporarily left her unable to speak. She penned the tersely scrawled admonishment "hate gift" and Mannis has not discussed the object with her since, he says. The FBI then raided Mannis' shop, he says, hauling out loads of electronic equipment. He got his stuff back but says he never got an explanation for the raid. Add to his list of woes that he lost his shop lease and was a victim of identity theft.

"All of this stuff has an explanation that doesn't necessarily point to this box," Mannis muses. "But when you take everything together, it becomes such a weird coincidence."

The 'curse' changes hands

BY June 2003, Mannis had had enough and posted the box on EBay. The high bidder was Nietzke, who, for $140, got the box, contents and -- presumably -- its ectoplasmic squatter. (Repeated attempts to reach Nietzke have been unsuccessful.)

Nietzke's alleged experiences, which are also posted on EBay -- included strange odors in his house, a bug infestation, malfunctioning electronic devices and "sort of like large, vertical, dark blurs in my peripheral vision."

Haxton, the college museum director who collects religious paraphernalia, says by phone that he first heard about the box last year through a student employee at his museum -- who is also Nietzke's roommate.

When Nietzke posted the box for sale, Haxton went for it. The day after it arrived in his office, Haxton says, "I woke up with my right eye looking like it had been poked." Other afflictions arrived, including fatigue, a metallic taste in his mouth and constant nasal congestion and a cough. Around the house, Haxton says he occasionally smells the signature odors of cat urine and flowers.

Haxton has been aided by Rebecca Edery, an Orthodox Jewish bookkeeper who lives in Brooklyn and whose father studied cabala. It was Edery who helped uncover the purpose of the box. "The two doors on the outside open up just like the Holy Closet," or Aron HaKodesh, a receptacle for Torah scrolls, Edery says. "And I saw round, metal hoops on the inside of the doors that would hold scrolls. This particular size is used when going to comfort the family of the deceased."

Edery says she is convinced the box was sacred and had been intentionally stuffed with some sort of spirit. "This was done deliberately, for a specific purpose." She believes that to put an end to the misfortunes, the box needs a formal Jewish burial involving a 10-man minyan, or prayer group.

For his part, Haxton says he wants to follow the box back to its origins. Then, he says, he might create a replica and bury the original. "To me this is a historical puzzle," he says. "It came from somewhere. It was made for a reason. What is it and why is it?"

Room for doubt on either side

Researchers and religious scholars say that, sure, the box contains items that could have served as fetishes or tokens to a family, Jewish or otherwise. Pennies and locks of hair fall under the common fetish territory, says Bill Ellis, a fetish researcher and American studies professor at Penn State University.

"It was not uncommon for people to hunt through their change and, when they found the birth date of a child, to put that aside as a life token of the child," Ellis says. "You also have two locks of hair. That is a very common tradition, especially for preserving a keepsake of a dead family member. These things would incorporate a memory or some part of a life spirit."

But the tale also contains a parade of red flags that point to a possible hoax.

For one thing, Schochet points out that most dybbuk tales have the ghost coming back to convey some sort of message, but "there is nothing to explain why this particular box is inhabited."

Elliott Oring, an anthropology professor and folklore specialist at Cal State L.A., also has his doubts. "Go through [the story and] you will see areas that seem to require suspending critical functions. There is too much piling on of incidents.... Why wasn't it simply disposed of?"

So if there's no proof a dybbuk exists, why is the box so fascinating?

"We embrace such stories because they tap into our own fears and prejudices," says Allan S. Mott, author of "Urban Legends: Strange Stories Behind Modern Myths."

"The dybbuk story taps into our belief that out in the world there is a supernatural evil that will attack anyone regardless of how good they are. They allow people to make some sense of a chaotic world."

The story also benefits from the credibility lent to it by a mainstream site such as EBay, says Jan Harold Brunvand, author of the coming "Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends."

But Brunvand sees a difference in the tale. "The length and detail of the story is unlike most urban legends," he says, "as is the supernatural angle and the first-person narrative. So I would not classify it as a 'normal' urban legend."

Perhaps that leaves open a small window of credibility. After all, who doesn't like a good ghost story?

"Of course, we realize we could most probably be dealing here with a very elaborate hoax," notes the Rev. Jim Willis, an Arizona minister and author of "The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints and Seers." "I have to say that because I do have my academic reputation to uphold." But, he adds, "if you leave it at that, it takes all the fun away."

As his words trail away, a huge picture in his office falls from the wall and crashes to the floor.

"This is weird," Willis says. "Have I just become a part of an urban legend?"

现在的美式恐怖片基本都这样了，和阴儿房 万能钥匙 坠入地狱 一样，好人不能当，不然结局在完美帮忙的你自己也会死，不过我很喜欢这类型的片子，感觉气氛好，有意思，不至于是大烂片。。

人物设计：离异家庭，一个以上小女儿判给母亲，母亲徐娘半年，风韵犹存，女儿尚未发育，但眼大脸尖，肤色苍白，有一头海藻般的长发。父亲身材魁梧，毛发浓密，性格霸气，粗中有细。小三乘虚而入，使得感情刚破裂又藕断丝连的原配夫妻一时间难以重圆。

室内环境：独立别墅，室内设计走简洁路线，人手一个房间，拥有宽敞舒适卫生间，洗脸池上方配置镜柜

人物关系背景：夫妻二人离异，其中一人不甘寂寞耍了新朋友，另一个余情未了，有破镜重圆的念头，但看见前夫（妻）带着新欢秀恩爱，心头酸溜溜。小三为了爱情对拖油瓶还算比较客气。

必备镜头：1、女孩卧室窗户特写，风送窗帘，窗外树影婆娑，同时诡异音乐渐起，镜头再切回到床上熟睡女孩的脸蛋，一阵风就将她惊醒，从女孩脸部特写足以看出，她从小就是个美人胚子。
2、镜柜特写，明亮的卫生间里，给主角来个背面特写，只见她穿着小吊带和三角裤，身材婀娜，皮肤白皙，露出的半截屁股圆润紧实，令人遐想无限。再将镜头切到正面，女主角打开镜柜取物，关上镜柜一瞬间时立刻跟上镜面特写，狰狞鬼魂面孔一瞬即逝，这个镜头只有观众看见，女主角低头忙活了。
3、浴池特写，水龙头里白色水柱汩汩流下，女主角惬意地躺在浴缸里，要害部位都隐藏在白色泡沫中，一双修长的大腿从水面露出，更增幼滑，乳沟随女主角幅度较小的动作若隐若现。镜头围绕女主角推进至少三分钟，让人很想把她从水池中揪出来全面欣赏。正在观众心痒时水停了，女主角坐起来摆弄水龙头，忽然间一股黑水喷射而出，女主角顿时花容失色，再一定神，发现只是眼花，在这个过程中，女主角圆锥形的完美乳房不经意数次曝光，虽不至于当场开撸也让人心中激荡。
4、被附身女孩特写：容颜枯槁，下眼睑青黑，头发干涩，乱的好像多日未梳，动作难度系数由翻白眼逐渐升级，使用意念移动屋内任意一件家具，头部可以360°自由旋转，四肢向身后折去，猛烈吸附到墙上、天花板上以及附近桌子上，大半被头发遮住的脸上只有一对阴森的招子，同时配以尖锐且猥琐的笑声。
5、驱魔神父特写：手持圣经，额头上汗水涔涔而下，不断的重复：in the name of Jesus Christ ,I command you!一遍没用，两遍没用，三遍才开始让被五花大绑的女孩身体开始大幅度扭动身体，再也不萌的脸蛋此刻是哥特式妆容，并且通过后期处理显得五官错位、扭曲，达到震慑人心的效果。辅以下流英语或咒骂或挑逗神父，不时间杂拉丁语、克林贡语等小语种。

人物表现：小三眼见烂摊子难以收拾，当即开溜，没有小三的那一方趁机上位，让对方深深感受到，世上只有孩子亲爹（妈）好的道理，一家子众志成城抗魔救女，在以视觉刺激人的同时，不忘弘扬社会公德、家庭美德。

人物结局：为了拯救孩子，男方诚邀魔鬼上身，还没来得及与刚刚和好的前妻温存，就跳出二楼窗户与之同归于尽，留下妻儿看着只留下玻璃茬的窗户抱头痛哭。

1、影片最开始，一个老太太打开录音机听着音乐，拿起锤子走向一个奇怪的匣子，被虐打
2、小女孩让爸爸买到了匣子，忽然通过窗口看到一个房间里缠满绷带不停嘶叫恐怖扭曲的人，应该就是被虐打的老太太。
3、小女孩用手电筒照自己的喉咙，里面伸出两根手指
4、磁共振时显示小女孩的身体里藏着一个诡异的人，那个人正看着大家

剧情非常老套：一对刚离婚夫妇有两个可爱的女儿，女孩们定期跟父亲团聚过周末，偶然中妹妹得到一个古怪的盒子，开始举止异常，原来盒子里封着恶灵，她被附身了；父亲展开调查，发现盒子来源于犹太教的一支，就去请牧师驱魔，费尽一番力气，一家人团聚如初（不过驱魔牧师挂了）。

是不是很老套哇？各种过时的情节都包括了：感情不合的夫妻、天真萝莉、恶灵附身、解惑的教授，连驱魔都是＂呼唤恶魔名字＂这种喜闻乐见的形式。请问，大周末的我花75块钱看这部电影的意义何在？thats just fxxking boring. （即便如此，我还是决定不回家睡了，囧rz~）

编剧及导演都十分糊弄事儿，虽然盒子里的恶魔隶属波兰的某支犹太教，可是没看出任何新意。
（以下文字充分显示出撸主对其他民族认知的局限性，请大家当做反面教材 ↓↓↓）
【而且非常可笑的是，爸爸按照地址去类似小波兰的地方找牧师时，当地人的造型非常令人无语--男人大衣礼帽，女人头巾包头，恍如二战时期，这里充分显示出老美对其他民族认知的局限性：穿个旗袍就是东方、男人裹个头巾就是穆斯林、女人包住头发就是东欧。】

哦，还有：
演妈妈的女人好老，得有50+了吧？整个一瘪嘴老太太，还特喜欢穿露锁骨的衣服。长的老不是你的错，出来晃悠吓人就不对了。

姐姐很漂亮！！仿佛看到了teenage的linsay lohan！！！

有人吐槽“核磁共振竟然照出了鬼脸！”其实这里的恐怖效果还不错，颇有点富江的意味。不过，鬼头是挤在胸腔的位置，鬼手又能从妹妹的喉咙里伸出来。。这。。科学吗。。囧rz！（导演：恐怖片你跟我提科学，诚心踢馆吧？！！阿西吧——）诶呀算了，撸主实在孤陋寡闻，就不露怯了，光速撸走~~~~

如果我是编剧：
1、最后驱魔＂成功＂，因为恶魔从妹妹转移到了姐姐身上，没人发现，最后镜头是姐姐诡异的笑容（是的，依旧很老套。。）

2、母亲的男友的真正目标是这姐妹俩（喂。。这是恐怖片不是伦理片好吗。。）

幕后制作

　　装着恶魔的盒子

　　这部电影改编自《洛杉矶时报》记者莱斯利·戈尔斯坦的纪实类作品，既然是纪实类作品，那么一定有一个真实的关着恶魔的盒子存在，而且围绕在这个盒子的周边，一定也有很多的传说。据了解，这个盒子曾经在eBay上被拍卖，然后被一个从二战大屠杀的幸存者买到了美国。据说，这个盒子里装载着恶魔的灵魂，围绕在它的周围，传说和各种惊悚的故事不断。经过十几年的转手和倒卖，这个盒子被一个叫做凯文·曼尼斯的人买下，曼尼斯是山姆·雷米的老朋友，他和雷米讲了很多关于这个盒子的故事。曼尼斯说：“毫无疑问，这是一部恐怖片，但是我觉得，拥有这个盒子的生活比看这部恐怖片更令人害怕。这部电影里展示的，是围绕在这个盒子周围十几年的传说的总和。”
　　
　　后来，这个盒子被一个叫做杰森·哈克斯敦的人买下，他把这个盒子送给了山姆·雷米。而作为拍摄了经典恐怖片《鬼玩人》系列的导演，雷米对这个盒子也是欲拒还迎，对它是既期待又害怕。雷米说：“我可不想对这个盒子做什么。当然，你是不会相信什么恶灵盒这个东西的，直到你去犹太教的教堂，听他们说那些灵异故事的时候，才会觉得毛骨悚然。我知道《驱魔人》那部电影并非是空穴来风，我也知道这个世界上存在很多无法解释的超自然现象。但是这和我的信仰，和我是不是相信有恶灵附体这些并不是一回事。监制这部电影，真的是让我灵魂出窍了。”对于那个盒子，男主角的扮演者杰弗里·迪恩·摩根的态度和雷米一样，敬而远之。他说：“拍摄前，我做了点研究工作，我看到的那些资料让我非常害怕。而且我女朋友也和我一样，有的时候惶惶不可终日。在拍摄电影的时候，我都避免要和真的恶灵盒接触。”
　
　邪门的拍摄过程

　　作为一个恐怖片导演，奥勒·博内代尔有着丰富的拍摄恐怖片的经验，而吸引他来到《恶灵入侵》剧组的，并不是这个剧本有多么恐怖，而是因为剧本中关于离婚夫妇和小孩的关系吸引了他。他说：“这部电影里最打动我的，是关于一对离婚的夫妇一起照顾孩子的内容。所以，我觉得这部电影，是一部讲述家庭生活的影片，而不是一部融合了驱魔、心理惊悚等等元素的恐怖片。至于影片中的恐怖元素，我只能说很过瘾，很给力。里面有暴力元素，有驱魔，甚至还有超自然的元素。总的来说这里面的元素颇为混搭，但是从最后的成片的效果看，还是很不错的。”为了拍摄这部电影，博内代尔特意从以往的片子中寻找灵感，他说：“为了拍摄这部电影，我找来了波兰斯基的《冷血惊魂》和《怪房客》，以及经典的《驱魔人》，从这两部电影里找了不少灵感和拍摄技巧。当然，还有著名的《鬼驱人》，因为这些电影让你相信那一切恐怖元素都是真实存在的，这是我力求在影片中表现的内容。”
　　
　　这个不详的题材，似乎也让剧组沾染上的一股邪气，影片导演奥勒·博内代尔讲述的一件事让人不寒而栗。他说：“的确发生了一些很奇怪的事情。比如说我本人碰到的。因为我从来不站在没有点亮的霓虹灯之下，所以一般情况下，是不会碰到什么意外的。可是在拍摄现场，我站到了霓虹灯的下面，一瞬间之间，所有的灯管都爆炸了。还有一件事，更加可怕。我们拍完了电影，正准备后期制作。就在我们收工的5天之后，我们存放拍摄道具的仓库起火了。这个仓库在温哥华，保全和防火的措施做的挺好的，但还是烧了起来。最后，整个仓库都被烧成了平地，即使是当地的消防局也没有办法判断出起火的原因。我并不是一个相信超自然现象的人。对于这场大火，我只能说，大概只是个巧合吧。”

花絮

.影片原本因为强烈的暴力和惊悚情节而被MPAA给了R级。后来，导演对影片进行了修改，获得了PG-13的分级。

.影片于2011年就完成了拍摄。这是导演奥勒·博内代尔在2002年的《我是迪娜》之后拍摄的第一部英文对白的影片。

.影片改编自《洛杉矶时报》记者莱斯利.戈尔斯坦的纪实类作品《盒子里的恶灵》（Jinx in a Box）改编。那个恶灵盒（Dybbuk box）的一个主人叫做凯文.曼尼斯（Kevin Mannis）。后来这个盒子辗转几手，最后被送给了山姆·雷米。

.《盒子里的恶灵》和本片的素材就来自于凯文·曼尼斯对围绕在盒子周围的故事的讲述。而他也是本片的制片人山姆·雷米是十几年的老朋友了

2012年，恐怖惊悚驱魔电影《死魂盒 | The Possession》

其实从海报上看就有点《驱魔人》的感觉，不过想超越驱魔人真的比较难。拍得也中规中矩，剧情也相对老套了。一惊一乍那是必须的。。

美国国旗+黑人老师被丢出去那段是不是。。有点别的意思呢？还是不太喜欢这样的电影加入奇怪的东西。。

开始吐槽：
1、其实小萝莉演的挺好的，电影里这个小女孩看上去非常招人讨厌啊，真想掐死她呢。。。
2、看驱魔电影学驱魔也是比较少见的。。
3、这里的恶灵也确实有点过于NB了，夸张点说，多几个这样的恶灵美国灭了都有可能。。
4、恶灵的名字叫：UP主。。。哈哈太出戏了。
5、核磁共振可以扫到“鬼”，这是高科技啊。
6、最后小女儿，蜘蛛侠一样的出场姿势吊炸天。
7、我想说后爹真惨，你说虐不虐，虐死了。
8、最后好恶意，不过已经猜到了。好人没好报。

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推荐指数：★★★（6/10分），中规中矩，只是觉得小演员好犀利，这个题材很难再突破也是很正常的。