三分之二年 May-December-January (2022)

灭绝2015

　　不知曾几何时，地球突然爆发恐怖的丧尸病毒，成千上万的人被病毒感染，随后化作嗜血丧尸撕咬同类，正常人类的数字直线减少。帕特里克（马修·福克斯 Matthew Fox 饰）和杰克（杰弗里·多诺万 Jeffrey Donovan 饰）当年乘坐巴士疏散，谁知途中遭遇最惨烈的 事件，这两个男人以及一个尚在襁褓中的小婴儿成为唯一的幸存者。九年后，地球上人类所剩无几，杰克以及当年的婴儿——可爱的小女孩露（奎恩·麦克科甘 Quinn McColgan 饰）住在一个寒冷的山村，父女俩相亲相爱，甜蜜温馨。与之相对，胡子拉碴的帕特里克与他们比邻而居，他似乎与杰克有着深深的隔膜。　　某个飘雪的夜晚，露意外在院落外目击到久未出现的丧尸的行踪，曾经的噩梦再度浮现……

机械怪兽

后座

　　弱不禁风的男子Colin（哈利·米尔林 Harry Melling 饰）遇上英俊无比的摩托车俱乐部首领Ray（亚历山大·斯卡斯加德 Alexander Skarsgård 饰），Ray将Colin收为他的submissive，并带他走近一群古怪的酷儿摩托车手，过程中各种收割童贞。但随着Colin深入Ray的那个充满规则和神秘的世界，他开始质疑自己是否真正适合这种当全天候submissive的生活。他是真的找到了自己的使命，还是仅仅用一种“窒息”的人生换了另一种？

E.S.P.Y

　　小松左京の同名SF小説を原作に、超能力を持つ諜報員・エスパイたちの活躍を描く。当時の技術で、果敢に超能力を表現しようとする試みが光る。田村、マリア、三木の3人は、国連の秘密組織’“エスパイ”で働いていた。エスパイとは、超能力を悪用する逆エスパイと戦うための超能力者を養成する機関である。やがて、東西冷戦の要・バルトニアの首相暗殺計画をめぐって3人の活躍が始まる……。

平安夜，杀人夜

　　Cineverse制作新版《平安夜，杀人夜》，计划于2025年底上院线。

等待方舟

　　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.