危险激情夜

毛骨悚然撞鬼经 2022夏季特别篇

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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

黑色钻石

 Follows a young woman whose idyllic life with her hedge funder boyfriend turns it into a deadly triangle of lust, obsession and murder after meeting a local cowboy handyman.

尸咒

　　以实验电影闻名海外各大电影节的知名导演辉旭（朴智勋 饰），为了拍摄以舞蹈为主题的新作品，将与新人演员诗映（金允慧 饰）、彩允（宋伊才 饰）一起在废弃学校的屋顶上进行拍摄。以破格、粗暴的舞蹈动作开始进行拍摄后，演员和制作人们被一股神秘力量吞噬，拍摄现场瞬间陷入惨不忍赌的情况。「活尸苏醒了！」面对不该醒来的存在，他们的命运将会如何……

大器晚成2023

凯伦·吉兰、玛格丽特·苏菲·斯坦、杰梅因·福勒、凯文·尼伦、塔利亚·巴尔萨姆将主演喜剧新片《大器晚成》(Late Bloomers)，丽莎·斯蒂恩首导剧情长片，已在纽约杀青。                                                                      　　斯蒂恩的多部短片搭档安娜·格林菲尔德写剧本，松散基于她20多岁时居住在布鲁克林的经历，讲述露易丝(吉兰)是一个漫无目的的千禧一代，某天她醉醺醺地摔到了臀部，为此接受了物理治疗，在那里结识了一位不会说英语的年长波兰女士，两人成为了闺蜜。而正是这种不太可能的友谊让露易丝有勇气面对她一直在逃避的事情：她母亲的早发性老年痴呆症。                                                                      　　福勒饰演露易丝的室友/房东布里克，尼伦和巴尔萨姆饰演露易丝的父母。