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　　被誉为“史上第一部爱尔兰语恐怖片”，《弗雷瓦卡》围绕一位名叫休的护理工作者展开，她被个人悲剧所困扰。休被派往一个偏远村庄照顾一位患有广场恐惧症的女性，她既害怕邻居，也害怕纳希德——她相信几十年前被这些神秘民间实体绑架。随着两人建立起深厚的联系，休逐渐被这位老妇人的偏执、仪式和迷信所吞噬，最终面对她自己的过去所带来的恐怖。

　　知名電影評論網紅古馬木一直在網上做評論為大家排雷，這次他化身AI人工智能潛入電影世界，評論最新爛片《人魚愛上我》主創背後的真實故事⋯　　潦倒編劇樂與母相依為命，偶爾在網上認識十分欣賞樂作品的神秘少女，樂以為覓得「真愛」並為之直奔海島，既為愛情亦為拍檔強介紹的工作。然而「真愛」不出現，編劇工作同樣受挫，投資方堅持改編翻拍了無數次的童話故事美人魚，本應失落的樂卻莫名其妙與民宿老闆娘文漸行漸近。原來樂網戀的「真愛」就是懷春熟女文！文受前夫情傷，年歲漸長的她越發不自信才在網絡上尋求心靈慰藉！　　文自從交上了樂這個網友之後，缺乏自信的她被樂的主動跟甜言蜜語治癒了不少。而樂在文的帶領之下也找到了寫作的靈感，樂忽發其想，邀請文一同合編美人魚的故事，正當劇本寫完之時，樂的母親突然病倒，樂心痛至極同時亦發現文就是當初自己網戀的少女，樂接受不了，拋下狠話，文亦傷心離去，兩人從此再無聯繫。　　樂在醫院陪母親走到生命的盡頭，在見證母親跟多年不見的父親一笑泯恩仇，樂明白世界的情感縱使起源於謊言，但結局也能如童話般美好，樂與文這段疑幻似真的情感，究竟過無數電影的古馬木能否猜到這故事的結局？

　　最近，城市里发生了可怕的杀人事件，一具被切割成6块的女尸的曝光和凶手的逍遥法外引起了社会的恐慌。作为休假的交换条件，搜查科研究员姜民浩（薛景求 饰）接下了这个棘手的案件。行事雷厉风行的他和推理天才闵瑞英（韩惠珍 饰）联手，调查取得了突飞猛进的进展，嫌疑人李圣浩（ 柳承范 饰）的名字渐渐浮出水面。　　李圣浩一经逮捕就对自己所犯的罪行供认不讳，可是姜民浩却发现事实并不是他所说的那么简单。就在这个节骨眼上，姜民浩的女儿突然失踪，他明白这绝对和李圣浩脱不了干系。李圣浩告诉姜民浩，若想要得知女儿的下落，就必须和他玩一个解谜的游戏——解开他留在尸体上的谜题。一场以生命为筹码的赌注开始了。

　　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.

 迪兹（加里·库珀 Gary Cooper 饰）是一位小有成就的商人，早已经衣食无忧的他希望能够从繁忙的事务中脱身，将时间更多的花费在自己的兴趣爱好之上。一笔价值两千万的巨额遗产从天而降落到了迪兹的头上，报社问询派来了记者芭比（琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰），希望她能够从迪兹的身上挖掘出一些吸引眼球的新闻。刚开始，芭比十分看不惯迪兹的处世为人，但随着时间的推移，她渐渐被后者的善良和正直所吸引，两人之间产生了浪漫的爱情。迪兹决定将得到的遗产用于帮助深陷贫困的人，这一举动遭到了律师约翰（Douglass Dumbrille 饰）的质疑，他坚定的认为迪兹的脑袋可能出了什么问题，甚至将他告到了法庭。

　　A team of influencer bloggers decides to hold a ritual at the mansion of the "black countess". A fan of the supernatural, she disappeared without a trace after she was offered to play a game that was supposed to take her to another dimension. By evoking the spirit of the Countess, bloggers let otherworldly forces into the world. The one who can bring the demons back will survive.