妖艶西遊記

　　Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.　　Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.

 《准备好了没2》仍然由萨玛拉·维文主演，导演组合马特·贝蒂内利-奥尔平&泰勒·吉勒特回归。

　　20世纪30年代，战争的幽灵盘桓世界上空。纳粹相信妖术可以帮助他们迈向胜利，于是派出手下四处寻找便捷的“治世良方”。1936年，在美国西弗吉尼亚的一个偏僻乡村复仇溪，诚实善良的沃尔纳一家迎来一名不速之客。隶属于北美地区德国遗产学术委员会的理查德·沃斯博士（Michael Fassbender 饰）来到这里，借住在沃尔纳家。一家人虽然心有惴惴，不过看在钱的份上欣然接纳沃斯博士，并对其表现出诚挚的热情，却不曾想对方带来了难以置信的灾难。　　2007年，警察伊万·马歇尔（Henry Cavill 饰）生活正陷入困境。他的哥哥维克多（Dominic Purcell 饰）一度消失。当他以为兄长已死时，维克多却突然出现，带着弟弟来到复仇溪。维克多究竟经历了怎样的磨难？这与30年代沃尔纳一家的遭遇又有什么关联？

　　1993 年，发生了可怕的事件：一个神秘的儿童节目主持人克罗克特先生神奇地从电视机中出现，绑架了年幼的孩子杀害了其父母。而在克罗克特先生绑架了女主的儿子之后，女主开始了危险的追寻之旅，她要找到这个恶魔，救出她的儿子。

　　三年前的 8 月 31 日，突如其来的“侵略者”，—艘巨大的“母舰”降落至东京上空，世界似乎迎来了终结……在那之后，绝望融入了日常生活，巨大的圆盘飘浮在上空的世界持续到现在。小山门出、中川凰兰两个高中少女，在这个走向终结的世界中，挥洒着自己的青春时代。

　　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.