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.

　　Marple is extremely proud when she is appointed to the board of trustees of a merchant marine training vessel whose mission is to rehabilitate young criminals. As in all of her endeavors, Miss Marple intends to take an active role in the job and even shows up to the board meeting dressed in naval blues. When a fellow trustee is poisoned just prior to his making some kind of revelation, Miss Marple decides to use her position to spend time on the ship. This upsets the vessel's fragile social network as she dispossesses blustering Captain Rhumstone from his quarters. When two ship's officers are later found murdered also, Miss Marple enlists help from her friend Jim Stringer and Inspector Craddock to expose the murderer.

　　只有他们能侦听到的太空的神秘声音？他们到底发现了什么？三位天文学家意外地截获了他们认为是来自遥远的外星文明的信号，但事实比他们任何人想象的都要不可思议。该片制作历时五年，四个工作人员，三个演员，零预算的独立电影。

亚瑟（肯·斯托特 Ken Stott 饰）是一位成功的资本家，在不久之后即将加官进爵。希拉（克洛伊·皮里 Chloe Pirrie 饰）是亚瑟的女儿，这位单纯善良的千金小姐在家宴中接受了男友杰拉德（凯尔·索列尔 Kyle Soller 饰）的求婚，两人喜结连理，亚瑟和妻子对这门亲事显然十分满意，而希拉的弟弟艾瑞克（芬恩·科尔 Finn Cole 饰）却显然并不怎么高兴。                                                                      　　就在一家人欢聚一堂之时，一位不速之客的到来让五人倍感警惕。来人自称警局的探长（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰），前来为一起女工自杀的案件调查取证，而这位名为伊娃（苏菲·兰道尔 Sophie Rundle 饰）的可怜姑娘曾经在亚瑟手下的工厂里干过活，并且因为领导罢工而被亚瑟开除。亚瑟并不认为自己应该为伊娃的死负什么责任，而随着时间的推移，众人渐渐发现，在这间狭小的房间里，无论是有意或无心，每一个人都是罪人。

艾露思（托马辛·麦肯齐 Thomasin McKenzie 饰）是个性单纯善良的乡村女孩，渴望成为一名服装设计师。凭借着自己的努力，她考上了位于伦敦的艺术学院，怀揣着对未来的期待和对梦想的希冀，她告别的居住在故乡的外婆，独自踏上了求学之路。初来乍到，伦敦的一切在艾露思的眼里看来都是这样的新奇和时髦，但同时，复杂的人际关系和繁重的学业也给艾露思带来了巨大的压力。                                                                      　　无法适应宿舍生活的艾露思租下了一间老旧但是舒适的单室间，哪知道在这里的第一夜，她就在半梦半醒之间穿越回了60年代，并且邂逅了一位名叫桑迪（安雅·泰勒-乔伊 Anya Taylor-Joy 饰）的女子。艾露思透过桑迪的眼睛目睹了她是如何从一个才华横溢的女子一步一步堕落成为妓女最后被杀害的全过程。

　　Although the evidence appears to be overwhelming in the strangulation murder of a blackmailer, Miss Marple's sole 'not guilty' vote han gs the jury 11-1. She becomes convinced that the real murderer is a member of a local theatrical troupe, so she joins them in order to gather information. The clues lead back many years to a single disastrously unsuccessful 1951 performance of a dreadful play written by the group's hammy director, H. Driffold Cosgood. Although at that time, several of the current cast members were only children, more murders follow before Miss Marple ultimately exposes the killer.
　　英国影片。片长90分，根據Mrs. McGinty's Dead改編，原著是波羅故事。因影片将主角变为马普尔小姐和剧情的更改引起原小說作者克里斯蒂强烈不满，影片本身也遭遇票房和评论惨败。主演Margaret Rutherford还出演過另外3部以马普尔小姐为主角的电影，其中1部亦是根据波洛故事改编(「葬礼之后」)，另1部是原创剧本。80年代在多部电视剧中扮演塔彭丝的Francesca Annis也在本片中扮演一个小角色。

　　奥斯卡奖得主麦克而凯恩和本金斯利合演。福尔摩斯帮伦敦警察厅破获无数案件，但是福尔摩斯并不存在，而这位大侦探的角色一直由一个叫雷金纳得琴凯德德人扮演，他是华生雇佣德临时“演员”，笨拙又酗酒，为此，华生想要解雇他，正当此时，财务部官员要拜访福尔摩斯，华生只好留着他，继续这弥天大谎，“依靠”他破解新谜团。