彷徨的野兽

　　2002年，伊拉克战争爆发前11个月，美军驻伊拉克某军事基地发生奇怪事件，一个监控摄像机录下了诡异影像，更有试图查清此事的相关责任人员或者丧命或者疯狂。军方甚感事关重大，遂请来在这方面具有丰富研究经验的“鬼语者”海莉·桑兹前来调查被他们用特殊手段囚禁起来的“鬼魂”。随着沟通的深入，各种各样奇怪的是接连发生，身边或严肃或鲁莽的军人们着呈现出怪异的举止。这一切的背后似乎隐藏着巨大的秘密，“鬼魂”的真面目也渐渐地揭开神秘面纱……　　本片根据真实事件改编。

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

　　影片改编自笭菁的同名恐怖小说。　　万万不可将八字交给他人，否则……后果自负。

　　经过上一集的惨烈屠杀，汤米（汤姆斯·德科 Thomas Dekker 饰）侥幸和一名女子逃生，然而厄运如影随形，一名衣着考究的神秘男子追踪到了二人暂时栖身的小旅馆，以类似的手法残忍杀害了那名女子，汤米则在此之后下落不明。与此同时，神秘男子投入大笔金钱抢救了徘徊在死亡边缘的面具人（Nick Principe 饰）。苏醒后的面具人更加残暴，在神秘男子的指示下，他将目标锁定在时尚女孩杰丝（蜜米·麦克斯 Mimi Michaels 饰）的身上，一连串新的屠杀再次展开。　　另一方面，重案组持续关注近段时间发生的连环杀人案，汤米则成为案件突破的关键。新的屠杀，新的噩梦，在漫漫长夜顾自展开……