罪生咒

　　與丈夫離婚后，Alice必須承擔起單親母親的全部責任，照顧她全心全意愛著的兒子August，一個好奇的小男孩。他從小就對A、他的父親和他自己的故事充滿疑問。就連他的母親也從未談起過他的父親，August15歲那年，神秘的故事開始一點一點地跟隨他。他父親生前的囑托成為August從諾拉舞的秘密中發現恐怖的原因。在試圖讓他認識到自己的業力同時，Alice相信理性和正義。Alice竭盡全力拯救她所愛的兒子。但她越是反抗并帶領August遠離現實，詭異和奇怪的事件不斷升級，直到August陷入危險。決定返回尋找過去的真相。August生命危在旦夕，當Lambam家的門打開時，里面的木樁從過去一直建到了現在，與她一起打開的是Lambam家的老管理員Cherd叔叔，他知道整個故事。業力和所欠的誓言已經開始要求償還

詭風怪談

　　西部荒野，住著麥克林夫婦——伊薩克（阿什利·祖克曼 Ashley Zukerman 飾）和莉茲（凱特琳·杰拉德 Caitlin Gerard 飾）。這里條件艱苦，環境惡劣，人煙稀少，野獸橫行。莫大的孤寂令莉茲時常警惕地環視四周，防備一切可能的危險。某天，哈普爾夫婦——吉迪恩（迪倫·麥蒂 Dylan McTee 飾）和艾瑪（茱莉亞·古丹妮·泰勒斯 Julia Goldani Telles 飾）搬到了麥克林家附近，成為他們的鄰居。兩家人很快就成了好朋友，特別是莉茲有了艾瑪這個好姐妹，似乎心理也正常了許多。　　好景不長，某晚艾瑪的情況變得很糟糕，她擔心神秘的存在將危及她的孩子。荒野大風卷起，烏云密布……

遲來的憤怒

　　威尼斯的地平線單元中，出現了這樣一部電影，不扯人性，“三觀”卻正到讓人大呼過癮，這就是講述了一個干脆利落的復仇故事的西班牙電影《遲來的憤怒》。　　影片講述了一個男人為了替在搶劫案中慘死的女友和變成植物人的老爸報仇，潛伏八年，甚至睡了搶劫團伙司機的孩子他媽，只為等他出獄，威脅他，順藤摸瓜找到躲藏起來的真兇們，一個一個復仇。

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.

庫梅爾·南賈尼：夜間思緒

沖破鐵幕

　　邁克爾（保羅·紐曼 Paul Newman 飾）是一位非常優秀的火箭科學家，同時也是國家重點保護的珍貴人才。莎拉（朱麗·安德魯斯 Julie Andrews 飾）是邁克爾的助手，同時也是他的未婚妻，某日，兩人共同前往哥本哈根，去參加在那里舉辦的研討會。　　在哥本哈根的日子里，邁克爾的行為舉止表現的非常的怪異，就連向來能夠理解他的莎拉都感到百思不得其解，他的所有詭異行為只有一個解釋，那就是他要背叛自己的國家，逃往東德。為了弄清楚事情的真相，莎拉開始了對于邁克爾的調查，哪知道最終，莎拉選擇了和邁克爾一起叛逃。這對夫妻的行為背后，有著不為人知的目的。