恐怖的研究

1965年的英国剧情片《恐怖的研究》，在黑白年代的冷峻质感中透出一层压抑而幽微的疑云。片名所指向的“研究”与“恐怖”形成耐人寻味的张力，使整体气息游走于理性探察与不安想象之间。英式叙事的克制、时代环境的阴影感，共同营造出沉静却暗藏寒意的观看氛围。

When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.