死魂盒

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 TimesA 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 handsBY 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 sideResearchers 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?"

如往常一样，又是在网上闲逛时发现了《死魂盒》，当看到电影封面后，便决定去观看这部电影的。

这是什么原因？

因为笔者是一个游戏玩家，《死魂盒》电影封面与NDS上游戏《病房》封面仿佛如出一辙，而官方剧照又和《F.E.A.R》的剧照如此相向。

我想任何一个感兴趣的人都会探寻他们之间是否有联系，哪怕是只言片语。

虽然影评写的不多，但头次遇到这种无从下笔的感觉，感觉这个电影没有给人印象特别深刻的地方，中规中矩的一部恐怖片。

好处就是能让你勉强的看下去，不至于象其他电影一样，看都不想看，电影演了一半就知道结局是怎样的。

故事讲述的是一个装载着恶灵的盒子企图利用各种方式从而寄托到宿主，占领宿主的身体得到重生。

主角小姑娘家是个离异家庭，父亲是一个篮球队的教练，在当地篮球界小有成就，却处理不好与妻子的关系。

母亲是一名服装设计师，与父亲正闹离婚，主角每个周末会与姐姐一起到父亲那里住。

机缘巧合发现了一个盒子，本以为只是一个装饰品，却没想到盒子中寄宿着恶灵，而自己也被恶灵所寄附，父亲发现后找来一名大师来帮助驱魔，最后在父亲的牺牲自我和全家人的共同努力下，小姑娘战胜了恶灵，而恶灵被成功封印回盒子里。

就在大师带领盒子准备安顿好盒子的时候，意外又发生了，大师发生了车祸，盒子再次流落民间。

这部电影整体来说很一般，故事一般，惊吓度一般，一个典型的主角阴差阳错得到某件年老古物，而这件古物上隐藏着害人的恶灵，它渐渐残害宿主和周边的人，主人公们想尽办法与恶灵斗智斗勇的故事。

故事平淡的使人昏昏入睡，直到影片快到最后恶灵即将完全取代宿主和恶灵爬出身体时才有几个还算过的去的镜头。

电影给人的感觉多少有点象几年前的一部老片子《驱魔人》，同样主角是小女孩，同样被恶灵俯身，不同的后者是纯粹的恐怖片，而前者更像是用恐怖诡异的手法来表现亲情的伦理剧。

也就是说主角一家本来分崩离析的状态，因为恶灵，从而又紧密的联系到了一起。

不得不说的就是片中小女主角的艾玛扮演者：娜塔莎·卡利斯演技很不错，本身就是一个小美女，主角那种时而被恶灵控制表现出的诡异与主角本身抗拒恶灵时的纠结和无奈被她演绎的很好。

近几年外国这些小演员的演技都让人惊艳，如《孤儿怨》艾丝特的扮演者伊莎贝尔·福尔曼，《生人勿进》吸血鬼的扮演者科洛·格蕾斯·莫瑞兹，《寂静岭1》中阿蕾莎的扮演者祖蒂·弗兰，这些小美女的容貌与高超的演技都是这些电影的最大亮点，她们的出现让本不太出彩的电影瞬间提升了一个档次，她们出色的表现一点不逊色一些老演员，感叹她们以后必将前途无量。

这部电影中也有诸多不明不白的地方，比如盒子中的玩具没有交代背景，片中的飞蛾的象征，为什么多次提到的牙齿，等等都没有解释。

而小姑娘的后爸完全就是打酱油的，没起什么作用就挂了。

本片一开始就提示是根据真实的故事改变而成的，用来给观众创造恐怖的气氛，而导演在上映之前的采访也把电影形容的光怪陆离，拍摄行进中也发生了种种奇怪事情，更加增添了电影的氛围，不过这些都是恐怖电影导演的惯用手段，只不过为了电影上映前能够引起足够的眼球和关注度而已。

　　一个古老的盒子，会迷惑人心让人不自主想打开或靠近，打开的人会被里面的恶灵入侵，慢慢取代原宿主，把驱壳占为己有。

　　这个故事是以西方恶灵为元素主题的故事。

影片开头以一个中老年女人对一个写满古文盒子的恐惧想要毁掉它，最后被折断全身骨头的开场。

　　本以为这个女人死了，结果在影片的十分之二不到的地方，看到她被包成了木乃伊并惊恐地看着主角的小女儿抱着这个盒子。

这样感觉这个恶灵没邪恶到家，感觉不是纯粹的恶，可又做着恶灵的事，就像是“本能”而不是“刻意”　　因为是恶灵，所以做的事是恶灵才会做的。

　　整片故事围绕着“恶灵”却没有一个人死，唯一在影片最后死的人还是出车祸死的，虽然他当时拿着盒子，不过已经被封印，这只是编剧是一种手法，和恶灵没有关系。

　　所以，整片故事看下来没有太多的邪恶感，故事的开头也因为描述主角的婚姻和家庭情况，还有和两个女儿之间的关系而拖沓的太长，迟迟没有进入高潮，而整个故事的高潮也只有一个，就是最后驱赶恶灵父亲替女儿被侵入的过程，这个过程和画面还是比较刺激的，可前面就有点平淡了。

　　虽说故事的高潮一般都是留到最后的，可中间应该穿插一些小高潮，或峰回路转又突然跌入谷底，可是前面没有，前面只有铺垫铺垫再铺垫……　　介绍原由，发生过程，然后一个高潮，就没了。

结尾再来个美国式的开放型结局“永远不把故事说死”没有结局，也没有下文。

　　对于经常看恐怖、惊悚类电影的人来说“兴奋点”不高，可看度一般。

打发时间还是不错！

嗯嗯嗯（点头点头）

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

标题就已经够说明问题了吧o(︶︿︶)o 偶尔的恐怖气氛营造得还将就，驱魔部分较短。

看恐怖片还是得在空旷安静的地方才行，黑暗、凉飕飕的感觉，或者带个耳机。。。

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。。

）

在一个宁静、祥和的市郊社区里，住着布莱尼克一家。

最开始的时候，当克莱德和斯蒂芬妮发现他们最小的女儿艾姆对一个散发着古朴气质的木头盒子产生了难以言喻的迷恋的时候，他们并没有觉得有什么不对劲的地方。

这个盒子是艾姆在旧货市场里淘到的，不知道出于什么样的原因，艾姆第一眼看到它的时候，就生起了想要拥有它的迫切欲望。

然而，随着女儿的行为变得越来越古怪且无法理解，而且走到哪里都紧紧地抱着盒子，这对夫妻终于开始意识到，似乎有一股邪恶的力量进驻到了他们的家中，无比惊恐的他们马上对最大的嫌疑对象古董木头盒子展开了调查，而他们惟一了解到的，就是这个盒子的用途实际上是为了容纳犹太民间传说中的恶灵的。

也就是说，关在里面的是一个燃烧着愤怒的复仇火焰的魔鬼，拥有这个盒子的人不但会被它扰乱心智，最终自己的灵魂也会被彻底地吞噬掉。

昨天儿子聚精会神的看着一部电脑，我就走过去拍打了他一下，把他吓的够呛，原来他正在说恐怖电影《死魂盒》我也坐下来和他一起看，当小女孩总是干呕，但什么也吐不出来，用手扣也没有用，她就拿小手电筒看她的喉咙，这时的音乐已经有点气氛了，感觉要有事发生，她看到了喉咙里有一只手伸出来，但当她第二次再看的时候又没有了，小女孩开始不安，她不知道自己究竟是谁？

她的亲爸发现了她的不对劲，就去寻找原因，原来女儿是让魔鬼控制了，他开始自学如何驱鬼，当他再来看女儿的时候，趁着女儿熟睡，他开始按照学习的方法读咒语，潜伏在女孩身体里的魔鬼感觉到了，开始生气，亲爸手里的书开始快速的翻页，最后整本书被甩了出去，亲爸就对着眼前的人问：“你是谁？

”这是妈妈走了进里，看到亲爸在对女孩吼，不明所以就把亲爸赶了出去，接下来魔鬼不断出现，让妈妈开始怀疑，就带她去医院查看，当她看到女孩体内有个魔鬼的时候彻底蒙了，亲爸再次出现，还带来了一个神父，驱魔就次开始。

整个影片吓人的地方不是很多，但音乐配的不错，剧情稍显老旧，但这里的亲妈真的是让人感动，他不断的对魔鬼说，放过他的孩子，让它来找他。

影片最后即让人感动，也有点让人好笑，就是魔鬼竟然是被神父从亲爸身体里吼出来，又一步一步吼着让它爬进盒里子里，感觉有点尴尬。

这里值得说一下，女孩的表演真的很棒。

当嗜童魔在DAD的嘴里爬出来的时候我恍然大悟，穿越中土世界来到现世的咕噜与它的魔戒在盒子里相依为命，直到萝莉打开盒子把戒指戴上攫为己有时咕噜便决定与她死磕到底。

中途在夜间垃圾场有一段萝莉和盒子的对话，据揣测——咕噜：You stole my precious from me! give it back to me!! 萝莉：No...咕噜：You stole my precious from me! give it back to me!! 萝莉：No!咕噜：You stole my precious from me! give it back to me!! 萝莉：No!!。。。

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咕噜：削你丫的！！

然后发动了化蝶（DAD说过蛾子是没有颜色的蝴蝶）技能强了萝莉，目的是占有此肉体就能又和 my precious 在一起了。

最后犹太人为什么会被秒，当然是没把戒指还给它喽。。。

盒子里好冷，The ring is mine！！！

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。