A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
　　What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.

霍普（梅麗莎·勞奇 Melissa Rauch 飾）從小就立志成為一名體操運動員，在一場世界級的比賽中，霍普雖然腳踝受傷卻依然忍痛完成了比賽動作并獲得了銅牌的榮譽，這讓她成為了家鄉(xiāng)乃至世界的驕傲。然而數(shù)十年過去，霍普依然生活在過去的光輝之中，靠著曾經(jīng)的榮譽無所事事的在鎮(zhèn)上騙吃騙喝，絲毫沒有考慮過已經(jīng)無法再參加體操比賽的自己今后該過怎樣的人生。

故事發(fā)生在冬天的挪威，沉默內(nèi)斂又辛勤工作的尼爾斯負(fù)責(zé)駕駛馬力強(qiáng)勁的除雪車清理道路，保持通往他所居住的冰原小鎮(zhèn)的山路入口暢通。他的工作受到大家的肯定，就在他剛剛被評為年度市民時，他卻接到噩耗——他的兒子死于海洛因過量。尼爾斯拒絕接受關(guān)于兒子之死的官方解釋，他開始秘密尋找殺害他兒子的嫌疑兇手。一個意外的 事件轉(zhuǎn)變使得他成為了令人聞風(fēng)喪膽的地下英雄，而他的身份卻無人知曉。via.張詠軒Wayne