周末女孩 GIRL FRIDAY (2022)

　　1963年，在位于美国的伊利诺斯州的霍登平原市。阴暗恐怖的夜色笼罩着这座死寂的小城市，一起奇异的惨案就在黑暗当中发生了：梅尔斯家里只有六岁大小的迈克尔·梅尔斯（达格·法奇饰），残忍的用棒球棒将母亲的男朋友一棍一棍的锤成了肉泥，然后又将自己的姐姐以及姐姐的男朋友一同肢解得支离破碎、惨不忍睹……　　事实上，这个特别的小男孩儿在一生来似乎从面孔到内心就充满了深深的邪恶与仇恨。而令所有人万万没有想到的是男孩刚刚长到他6岁这一年便疯狂般地露出了他狰狞的恶魔脸孔。而每一年象征着“群魔乱舞”的万圣节似乎也成了他活跃异常的时刻。　　根据美国当地的法律，未成年人杀人并不会受到警方更严厉的制裁，最终裁定将这个心灵扭曲的少年送到了精神疗养所进行看管。在那里，一个名叫萨米尔·鲁米斯的医生负责调教和看管恶魔男孩儿。从未见识过如此凶残的儿童的鲁米斯想尽一切办法接近这个可怕少年的心灵，试图去影响、改变他的一切。但医生做的所有尝试都最终以失败而告终。迈克尔·梅尔斯是一个极其顽固的邪恶的载体，他没有理智、毫无人性可言，有的只是日益强悍的身体和越来越强烈的暴虐和不断增长的杀戮欲望——萨米尔·鲁米斯最后也意识到了这点，但似乎所有这一切都已经为时太晚了。　　在被关押了漫长的十七年之后，已经“长大成人”的迈克尔·梅尔斯凭借强壮的身体终于找到机会逃出了逼仄的牢笼。压抑已久的仇复与杀戮的恶魔之心终于得到了释放的机会，他迫不及待的回到霍登平原市，去寻找他唯一真正爱护过的妹妹劳瑞。　　这一切的真相，只有萨米尔·鲁米斯知道，老医生深知他的目的所在；也只有萨米尔·鲁米斯知道，任何不幸遭遇恶魔迈克尔·梅尔斯的人都将以最惨痛的方式付出自己的生命做代价。如今，留给他的时间已经不多，他要竭尽全力去警告无知的人们，并保护这家人唯一的希望——劳瑞。与此同时，为了所有其他人的无辜性命，鲁米斯还要拼尽全力找到并控制住疯狂的迈克尔·梅尔斯。尤其是每当月黑风高的万圣节之夜悄悄降临时……

 本是豪门继承人的贝克特·雷德费洛（格伦·鲍威尔 Glen Powell 饰）被家族抛弃，为了确保成为巨额遗产的唯一继承人，他不择手段干掉了七个亲戚。影片灵感来源于1949年的喜剧《仁心与冠冕》。

　　为给身患重病的父亲交付医药费，电工文斯（萨姆·赖利 Sam Riley饰）不得已卖掉了房子。一次偶然的机会，文斯在他修理的房间里得到房主的一封神秘信件和一张不知道终点的火车票。一面是房主的离奇意外死亡和完全未知的危险旅程，一面是一笔足够改写人生的巨额财富，文斯最终还是决 定踏上这次神秘旅程。然而当他抵达隐蔽的目的地之后，等待他的却是一场无法全身而退的疯狂杀人游戏。　　本片翻拍自2005年法国犯罪惊悚影片《百万杀人游戏》（13 Tzameti），依旧由原作导演兼编剧的格拉·巴布鲁阿尼执导与编剧。萨姆·赖利、米基·洛克、杰森·斯坦森、雷·温斯顿等多位硬汉同台演绎这场生死博弈。

　　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.