A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.
在隔离的索马福里精神诊所的围墙后面，哈尔.莱格兰医生正在试验他的“心理治疗法”。这是一种用来释放病人压抑的情绪有争议的治疗方法，他把他的明星病人娜勒隔离起来，但是当她在治疗过程中变得愤怒的时候，愤怒杀手加害了诊所外面的无辜的人们，莱格兰的方法和这些恐怖的谋杀之间有什么关系？答案将释放新的绝对的恐怖！ 国际影坛最富争议性、最成功的导演之一。一九七五年的处女作〈THEY CAME FROM WITHIN〉，以及之后的〈RABID〉,〈VIDEODROME〉都是恐怖片，一般公认这些作品都隐含了丰富的社会议题。柯能堡是加拿大人，善于探讨虚幻与现实，以及外力对这一切造成的影响。新片〈Ｘ接触-来自异世界〉结合紧张的动作场面，以及幻想与现实模糊的界限，是柯能保截至目前最有野心、最挑的作品
Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller. The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters. Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge. However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.
