Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
女皇兄妹果然没有让我失望，炼狱重生，活人制药也就那个疯批能想的出来，还整个科学怪人玩vr，黑妞和第一部的爆炸头简直一个模子刻出来的，送货人也算是被蒙骗干坏事迷途知返了，感觉除了疯癫的欢乐血浆之外还有点政治隐喻呢
看片名以为是粗制滥造的无脑僵尸电影，没想到居然非常好看
他强推 但我不理解
结婚的那个女儿漂亮 二女儿没有太多戏份。老爸偏爱大女儿 。国外婆婆妈妈的电影看的挺少的。更适合内陆人看。或翻拍
还出现操控者第二代了咯。但总觉得这个续集没起来，小打小闹的。
继续第一部的设定，故事倒是无聊得多了，看了50分钟犯困果断关闭播放器
血浆爆米花，没看过前一部。僵尸做沼气源的创意还挺好玩儿的。
男人总是为心爱的女人改变自己，而反之则不然
真的不喜欢这个改编，可能是太有印度风味了，那种唯美的浪漫的漫不经心的挠人的东西都不见了。姐姐这个角色的加入就是最大的累赘，一段感情的本质都变了。
剧本比前作更糙了点，许多情节挺突兀的，细节部份也没交代清楚，尤其是开局剧情的冲突莫名其妙，还以为自己漏看了一部呢……
续集项目反反复复以为劲儿已经泄了呢！满好满好
挺多五六分的电影就是剧情节奏没把控好，半小时左右想看下去的欲望就没了，这部也算一个
不错暴力血腥都有了88多分钟的片子奥利给哈哈
有几处父女的冲突稍显刻意。但是全片看下来，父亲和女儿，老婆，女婿的那几处谈话挺好的，有点煽情但是不刻意，结尾看着大家欢乐的舞蹈开心收场。
这个女的得瑟劲儿让我烦到爆炸，不过挺新鲜。
四，妹妹的独立和女性主义
够爽够暴力就够了，剧情真的可以忽略不计，巫女僵尸真的太屌了。
没看过1 背景设定看不太懂 怎么的这意思是僵尸能用来发电么
哈哈延续第一部的风格，土澳的僵尸电影就是这么上头！
这片如何立项的让我困惑。是因为演员所以成了的？
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