3.5/10
青鬼2 (2015) 豆瓣 IMDb 维基数据 TMDB
青鬼 ver.2.0
导演: 前川英章 演员: 中川大志 / 平祐奈
其它标题: 青鬼 ver.2.0 / 아오오니 ver.2.0
某座平凡的高中,喜欢开发游戏软件的转学生小俊(タモト清嵐 饰)饱受卓郎(松岛庄汰 饰)和小武(劝修寺玲旺 饰)的欺负,最终拒绝登校。这一天,班长杏奈(平祐奈 饰)约上曾和小俊过从甚密的优等生宏(中川大志 饰)来小俊家探访。途中,宏被神秘的蓝色蝴蝶所吸引,不知不觉脚步就来到了传说中闹鬼的废旧房屋Jail House前。站在现场的还有卓郎、小武和美香(久松郁实 饰)三人,他们打算进入Jail House探险,并实时拍下视频在网上直播。房屋中突然发生奇怪响动,小武试图逃脱,却发现出口被人所思。得意忘形的卓郎还没料到,他们已经步入可怕的狩猎陷阱之中……
本片根据同名游戏改编。
2022年11月6日 看过
2022年11月6日 评论 a review of 青鬼2 - The second film adaptation of the freemium RPG Maker horror game Ao Oni , which garnered a Slenderman -esque cult internet following in Japan that eventually grew to include an even smaller, more niche audience in the Western Hemisphere as well. Despite coming not long off the back of its predecessor, this isn’t a sequel. Rather it’s what the title implies, another version of it. One supposedly more faithful to the video game. Now, I’ve never played the game so I can’t say for certain, but I’d be pretty surprised if that claim proved accurate considering how the plot is centered around the backstory and personality of a character who’s apparently only in the novel. The whole thing gets fairly meta as the cast end up trapped in a bullied youth’s indie dev project while investigating their town’s urban legend of a haunted building and must locate the “glitch level” to escape. It doesn’t make much sense, particularly when you factor in the unintelligible mid-credits stinger, so it’s hard to get invested in the story as anything you can legitimately take seriously. And yes, there are some slight gay undertones, but they are far more subtle than any of the other reviewers here would lead you to believe.  As far as the actual horror goes, it’s extremely weak on that front. The straight-to-DVD production values rob the movie of any atmosphere or tension, and there’s a disappointing lack of gore. The characters are just sort of occasionally chased around by this giant blue mongoloid demon whose appearances are honestly more goofy than frightening. The fan favorite “Blockman Oni” shows up as well looking like a disabled (and also blue) Dōmo-kun, yet its inclusion is more comical in nature as it’s clearly portrayed as being, well, very stupid. It makes the entire property, or at least the director, come off as highly questionable given how every creature seems like some mockery of the mentally handicapped. Overall, I got what I expected. A meme-worthy Japanese monster flick that I only watched due to my appreciation for the medium its source material is derived from and because someone uploaded a nice subtitled translation to YouTube. It’s not painful to sit through, but it is completely inept and devoid of quality. Plus, I totally doubt it offers an accurate representation of the video game for the fanbase. Unless of course it actually does, in which case I have to ask WHY WOULD ANYBODY PLAY IT?!
3.5/10
奥斯维辛 (2011) 豆瓣 IMDb 维基数据 TMDB
Auschwitz
导演: Uwe Boll 演员: Arved Birnbaum / Uwe Boll
其它标题: Auschwitz / 아우슈비츠
奥斯维辛集中营试纳粹德国时期建立的集中营和灭绝营,位于波兰距克拉克夫西南60公里的小镇奥斯维辛。奥斯维辛集中营于1940年4月27日,由纳粹德国党卫军领导人希姆莱下令建造。1942年1月20日举行的万湖会议通过“犹太人问题最终解决方案”,通过灭绝营实行有系统的犹太人屠杀行动,估计约有110万人在奥斯维辛集中营被杀,超过九成遇害人都是犹太人。本故事讲述的就是奥斯维辛集中营中纳粹进行杀害犹太人或是对其收容者进行极为严苛的集体处决和不人道的人体实验。
2020年5月14日 看过
2020年5月14日 评论 a review of 奥斯维辛 - Given Uwe Boll's track record with films like Stoic and Seed ,I was expecting another pointless display of sickening cruelty and nastiness born out of the self-deluded belief that he was delivering a poignant message. To my surprise I found that this is more likely to make you laugh than gag. It was meant to be a horrifying, graphic, and realistic portrayal of the brutal acts that occurred in the titular concentration camp during WW2. Yet, the execution is so bumbling that it's far too unnatural and inexplicably tame to achieve that goal. The behavior from everyone onscreen, particularly those playing the Jewish prisoners, is flat-out unbelievable. They all line up so nonchalantly outside of Auschwitz' gates you'd think they were being checked into a convention rather than being taken record of for a savage death. Mothers don't even react to having their children ripped from their arms. Probably because of how gently the Nazis take them away before shooting them in the back of the head in a scene I'm pretty sure was reused more than once. The only time anyone looks even remotely uncomfortable is, understandably, when they're all forced to be naked around each other. The gas chamber sequences are the most shocking and explicit parts of the movie as Boll directs men, women, and children alike to strip down full-frontal and stand in a room together. You can tell this was too much for a portion of the people involved as for some baffling reason they forgot to take out a moment where one of the female extras got so embarrassed they had to give her back her clothes and let her leave, further breaking the illusion. Even Boll himself, who in what might have been a somewhat clever move is directing the action onscreen as a soldier, looks like he's feeling incredibly awkward about the whole thing. Seeing a 10-year-old's penis is about as raw and visceral as it gets however, as despite showing little restraint in the past when it came to depicting acts of torture and murder in an excruciating to witness manner Boll completely fails to show how terrible it would be to die this way. We see the actors cough a bit, lie down, and then the camera pan over their supposedly dead bodies. I say supposedly because some of them are clearly still breathing. Wasn't the whole point of this to show the true horror of these events? So why did Boll feel the need to make this movie at all? To put it simply, he believes that younger generations aren't being taught about the holocaust. A premise he inadvertently proves is false by including extended interviews with a few German students that are legitimately knowledgeable on the subject. Way to drop the ball. This might be the schlock maestros most inept piece of filmmaking. It is totally unsuccessful at everything it sets out to do and with mistakes so comedic at times that you have to wonder if Boll just didn't care or was honestly unaware of how to fix them. The worst part of all though is that some parents were so convinced that this was going to be an important movie they let their kids be nude around strangers and on film.
3.5/10