隔壁的女孩 3

月球奇幻旅

　　肖恩·利维将再次合作老搭档二十世纪福斯，执导新片[陨石坑](Crater，暂译)，利维也将约翰·J·格里芬执笔的原创剧本进行改编。故事被描述为科幻版的[ 伴我同行 ]，讲述在月球殖民地长大的男孩，和三个小伙伴共同前往一处神秘陨石坑探秘，不料却发生意外。影片剧本曾经入选2015年“好莱坞剧本黑名单”。

黑天鹅1942

 故事背景设定在16世纪的英国，海盗首领莫根船长（拉尔德·克雷加 Laird Cregar 饰）受到国王查理的特赦，并被任命为牙买加总督。一位年轻而勇敢、机智而英俊的年轻人沃林（泰隆·鲍华 Tyrone Power 饰）决定跟随莫根船长前往牙买加。然而，莫根过去的下属、狡猾而残忍的里奇船长（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰）却拒绝接受莫根的领导，继续在海上进行抢劫商船的行为。为了消灭海盗，沃林率领船队出海，在航行途中偶然与里奇的“黑天鹅号”，并和其他两艘船发生了遭遇战。面临险境，沃林不得不机智地假装前来投降并投靠里奇。通过巧妙周旋和激烈战斗，里奇最终受到了惩罚，他的“黑天鹅号”彻底被摧毁。与此同时，贵族小姐玛格丽特（玛琳·奥哈拉 Maureen O'Hara 饰）对沃林从厌恶逐渐转变为敬佩，最终产生了爱慕之情，展开了一场曲折而离奇的爱情故事。

漆黑如夜

　　故事发生在某个毗邻原始森林的小镇，一家伐木公司正在林中作业，这时白雪飘然落下，作业暂时停止，然而随即便发生了残酷血腥的事件。与此同时，警长保罗·希尔德（凯文·杜兰德 Kevin Durand 饰）和新来的搭档唐尼刚刚敷衍完几个报警事件，随后驱车来到前妻苏珊（Bianca Kajlich 饰）的家中，接走儿子亚当（Ethan Khusidman 饰）回自家居住。一夜无事，次日一早，保罗在门口发现硕大的脚印，而且脚印遍布小镇主干道，一直延伸到森林深处。巨大的脚印在小镇闹得人心惶惶，保罗起初绝不相信妖精怪物一类的传说，但是恐怖血腥的事件接二连三发生，让小镇陷入前所未有的恐慌之中。　　危机渐次逼近……

诅咒：纳扎尔

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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.