果汁 Katas (2024)

怪談晚餐

　　這部電影將六個故事組合成一個綜合系列，描繪了由于人類錯誤的欲望而發生的奇異事件。

毛骨悚然撞鬼經 2021特別篇

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.

丹下左膳：大岡越前外傳

平侍出身、獨眼的劍豪丹下左馬之介（森山未來 飾），奉相馬家當主大膳亮（每熊克哉 飾）之命，前往江戶小野冢道場奪取傳說中的一對妖刀“乾云丸”與“坤龍丸”。他以忠義為念拼死挑戰，卻在激斗中失去了右臂。幸得通緝犯阿藤（黑木華 飾）與與吉（加藤諒 飾）相救，奇跡般地存活下來，化名“丹下左膳”重生。此后，圍繞妖刀的陰謀不斷擴大，敵人接踵而至，連町奉行大岡忠相（高橋克典 飾）也卷入其中——一場關乎忠義與命運的江戶風云由此展開。

尸骨袋2

　　《尸骨袋》改編自斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）的同名恐怖小說。　　暢銷小說作家Mike Noonan（皮爾斯·布魯斯南 Pierce Brosnan 飾），在妻子Jo(安娜貝絲·吉什 Annabeth Gish 飾)死后，無法走出悲痛的深淵。他不斷地夢到和Jo一 起購買的緬因州湖畔別墅，夢到裝在袋子里的腐爛尸骨，夢見Jo也從裹尸袋中奔跑而出。終于他在Jo的召喚下回到了那棟詭異的別墅。在那里，他卷入了一樁年輕美貌寡婦與家財萬貫的祖父對小女孩的撫養權爭奪戰，并不時遭遇神秘鬼魂的騷擾。那些不斷升級的噩夢，還有神秘鬼魂的騷擾，都讓他意識到，這個小鎮隱藏著一些秘密，而死去的Jo也有事情想要告訴他……