在体育比赛中，“帽子戏法”的意思是进了三个球、三柱门或者三次全垒打。这个术语与电影之间的关系将会渐渐揭晓。故事开篇是一幢大房子里热闹的派对场景。相貌堂堂的夫妇法尔扎得和丽达之间难以名状的紧张情绪在蔓延。他溜出门打电话，她透过窗焦虑地看着他，试图偷听。朋友凯文觉察到了她的紧张，便安慰她，说他会和法尔扎得谈谈。凯文有一个女伴，自从他上次分手以来两人就在一起了，感情渐渐加深，但还不够稳固，因为两人都有秘密瞒着对方。派对散场，法尔扎得和妻子还有其他情侣纷纷回家，但在车旁法尔扎得撞到了什么东西。没有人看见任何东西！经过了漫长的讨论，人心惶惶，人们都去了某个朋友家继续分析这件事，并想对策。然而，对话很快从意外转向了别的话题。随着大家的疑惑增长，法尔扎得不成熟的个性变得危险，矛头也从意外指向了其他事情：负债、赌注和金钱。积怨再次被提起，长夜尽时，一切秘密都不复存在。

在体育比赛中，“帽子戏法”的意思是进了三个球、三柱门或者三次全垒打。这个术语与电影之间的关系将会渐渐揭晓。故事开篇是一幢大房子里热闹的派对场景。相貌堂堂的夫妇法尔扎得和丽达之间难以名状的紧张情绪在蔓延。他溜出门打电话，她透过窗焦虑地看着他，试图偷听。朋友凯文觉察到了她的紧张，便安慰她，说他会和法尔扎得谈谈。凯文有一个女伴，自从他上次分手以来两人就在一起了，感情渐渐加深，但还不够稳固，因为两人都有秘密瞒着对方。派对散场，法尔扎得和妻子还有其他情侣纷纷回家，但在车旁法尔扎得撞到了什么东西。没有人看见任何东西！经过了漫长的讨论，人心惶惶，人们都去了某个朋友家继续分析这件事，并想对策。然而，对话很快从意外转向了别的话题。随着大家的疑惑增长，法尔扎得不成熟的个性变得危险，矛头也从意外指向了其他事情：负债、赌注和金钱。积怨再次被提起，长夜尽时，一切秘密都不复存在。

卢米埃尔No.105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Q9YSAYkv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEsLevOdDfI This approximately 40-second long Lumiere Brothers short (Lumiere No. 105) featu res frequent Lumiere collaborator Félicien Trewey performing a variation on his famed "chapeaugraphy". Here, sitting in a chair, he dons hats, fake facial hair and even facial prosthetics in quick succession to perform characters for a few seconds before moving on to the next. While in terms of visual composition Transformation by Hats is not much to talk about, the short is notable and very successful as a further Lumiere Brothers exploration of the fictional possibilities of film. Otherwise, the Lumieres were better known for their "actualities", or short documentary portraits. Trewey, who was responsible for bringing the Lumieres' cinématographe to England, more often executed his chapeaugraphy with a single large piece of felt which he would shape into different kinds of hats to wear as different characters, relying also on facial expressions and contortions to effect the change--something like John Barrymore's turn at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). Surely the shaping of felt into different kinds of hats would take more than 40 seconds, so here, Trewey depends on his quick change abilities instead, keeping his hats and accessories on the ground, out of the camera range. It's remarkable how quickly and "cleanly" Trewey can don each "disguise". Editing had not yet been exploited (even though edits are present in the earliest days of film at least in some Edison company shorts), or surely the Lumieres would have capitalized on that unique property of the new film medium instead. Of course, it's debatable just how much the Lumieres intended to demonstrate the potential of the new medium rather than simply present a friend performing a part of his live act that had been adapted to suit the limitations of the medium. The truth is probably a mixture of intentions. At any rate, the effect on the burgeoning film industry was more to give a glimpse of the possibilities of characterization, to show a relatively easy technical way to create various convincing characters on film, as would be necessary in producing the more extensive fictions soon to come.

It's another boring day at a magicians casting until an unheard of trick is shown.

失业的魔术师达里因为错过一个高速公路出口而和伊莱娜的人生出现了交叉。伊莱娜雍容华贵，所拎的高级名牌包里装满了钞票。他们几乎没有任何共同点，却在一起度过了三天……

民国初，有座三九城，盛行戏法幻术。这年九月九，江湖各路人马汇聚一堂，哪知当天却发生意外，变戏法的老瞎子被活活冻死在了台上。老瞎子的孙女小辫子为调查真相奔波游走，结识鉴尸高人百晓生，此人道出惊天秘密，老瞎子的死竟牵扯出三九城二十年前的一桩戏法门旧事，以及退隐多年的戏法高手姜北海。小辫子决绝踏上寻找姜北海的旅途，却不料三九城内早已危机四伏，而这一切仿佛都像一张有预谋的网，扑向小辫子与姜北海。

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街头魔术师沈砚意外获赠一枚承载七亿美金遗产的硬币，瞬间沦为全城猎物，在惨死与重生的轮回中，他惊觉这枚硬币竟是富商利用邪术夺舍续命的陷阱，每次复活都会透支自身寿命。沈砚凭借精湛戏法与多世记忆步步为营，在经历了背叛与生死考验后，最终在直升机上的生死豪赌中，诱导贪婪的富商误夺恶相硬币，使其遭到反噬丧命，沈砚成功逆天改命继承巨额遗产，并在收尾之余不忘救助弱小，以余财救赎人心。

这本恐怖选集里萦绕着诸多可怕故事，它们讲述了来自另一个世界的超自然生物和威胁性生物。

魔术团团长程年离奇死亡，表面是心脏病突发，实则死状充满恐惧。犯罪心理学专家王宇介入调查，发现程年曾施暴于助手琳达、大斌及魔术师王有年的妹妹王友爱，致王友爱自杀。王有年为妹复仇，联合琳达、大斌用魔术设计吓唬程年，却因程年醉酒诱发心脏病致死。王宇揭开真相，王有年伏法，故事警示复仇需守法律，恶行终会自食恶果。