雪谷之狼 The Wolf of Snow Hollow(2020)

又名: 狼嚎杀机(台) / The Werewolf

主演: 吉姆·卡明斯瑞琪·琳德赫姆罗伯特·福斯特克洛伊·伊斯特吉米·塔特罗凯尔西·爱德华兹斯凯勒·拜布尔安妮·斯瓦德马歇尔·奥尔曼芭芭拉·温纳里达斯廷·哈恩劳拉·库弗 PJ·麦凯布丽兹·弗兰卡内维尔·阿尔汉博黛安·D·比姆 Hannah Elder Kevin Changaris Will Madden Annie Hamilton Chase Palmer Demetrius Daniels Daniel Fenton Anderson

类型: 喜剧惊悚恐怖

制片国家/地区: 美国

上映日期: 2020-10-09(美国)

片长: 83分钟 IMDb: tt11140488 豆瓣评分：5.5 下载地址：迅雷下载

简介：

吉姆·卡明斯自编自导并参与演出的惊悚黑色喜剧[雪谷之狼](The Wolf of Snow Hollow，暂译)发布第一批剧照，吉姆扮演正在戒酒的混混警官，他坚信小镇来了连环杀手，但小镇居民却认为那是一个狼人。瑞琪·琳德赫姆扮演他理智的搭档，去年十月过世的罗伯特·福斯特则扮演他的父亲、也是小镇警长，这是福斯特最后一次大银幕演出。本片将于10月9日登陆院线。

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Who is Jim Cummings? An up-and-coming generalist (director, actor, scribe, composer and editor) emerging from US indie cinema, with already 4 features under his directorial belt. A golden boy blessed with tradition good looks and Waspish appeal, Cummings makes a splash with his second feature THUNDER ROAD in 2018, a wiggy comedy about grieve and parenting, expanded from his 2016 one-take short of the same name, which is followed by THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW (2020) and THE BETA TEST (2021), venturing into two vastly different genres: werewolf horror and digital-age conspiracy. After that he lends his presence in Francis Galluppi's debut feature THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY (2023), a high-concept neo-Western sneering at America's gun violence, countrified cupidity and lawlessness.
In THUNDER ROAD, Cummings plays police officer Jim Arnaud, who is whacked by a double whammy of his mother's passing and a nasty custody battle (although he isn't mean-spirited, aiming for a joint custody in spite of his lawyer's incredulity), whose career and personal paths veer to a cul-de-sac as his sober days are over and his anger issue escalates. Cummings kills the opening gambit, a re-enactment of his short but with a difference (without the titular Bruce Springsteen's song), which underlies a cracker-barrel kookiness that is both disarming and bewildering (you may start to question Jim's sanity). However, the about-face between teary-eyed and maintaining a strong face is too comical to register any deeper sympathy, a tic which Cummings seems to curb in his later projects.
Drollness aside, THUNDER ROAD commits steadfastly to canalize Jim's seething anxiety and rage via Cummings' farcical and somehow bumptious mannerism (a scene between Jim and Macon Blair, who plays the teacher of Jim's daughter, is quite a capper of losing-it). It lands on its feet as Jim ironically regains the custody of his daughter Crystal (Farr, balancing out Cummings' clodhopping attitudinizing with an air of natural nonchalance) when all seems lost, not to mention that unorthodox slap. Cummings gingerly treads the fine line between misogyny and trashing an unworthy mother.
Cummings' deputy sheriff John Marshall in SNOW HOLLOW is embroiled in a similar bind. A member of the sandwich generation, John juggles between heeding to his ailing father, Sheriff Hadley (Forster, in one of his last roles), who is beset with a death-dealing heart problem, and walking a tightrope with his college-ready daughter Jenna (East), as he endeavors to mend their frosty relation after his divorce. Meantime, the sleepy ski town is plagued by a series of grisly murders apparently at the hand of a werewolf. Actually, John is the one who roundly rebuffs such hogwash since the onset, even audience is tricked to believe so (the monster literally shows its beastly figure when dispatching the second victim). With the significant help from the punctilious Detective Julia Robson (Lindhome), John will catch the culprit after the cases are closed, the last-minute revelation is a time-honored trope Cummings has no intention to cast aside.
For all its genre conventions, SNOW HOLLOW is shy of a roller-coaster ride and spookiness. Like THUNDER ROAD, it pivots on its protagonist's pressurized anguish and the dreadful sense of everything is getting out of his hand. But Cummings appears to be treading water here. All the blood-splatting, snow-bound visual onrush only leaves a sweeping impression that the film, compared with THUNDER ROAD, is less praiseworthy,
THE BETA TEST, co-written, co-directed and co-starred with PJ McCabe, ditches the small-town insularity to the Hollywoodland infested with eroticism, spousing-icing menace and darknet sinisterness. Sleek and silver-tongued Jordan Hines (Cummings), a high-flying (seemingly so) Hollywood agent, is about to get hitched with Caroline Gaines (Newcomb). While trying futilely to woo a Chinese mogul (Wilky Lau, who cannot pose as an echt Chinese as his mandarin is very poor, by extension, the film's portrayal of Chinese is rather distasteful), Jordan caves in to an anonymous letter luring him to a tryst in a hotel room. He is further intrigued by the mysterious woman with whom he has an amazing sex in blindfold.
When the letter stops, Jordan's life begins to turn topsy-turvy as he goes off the deep end to scope out who is behind all the shenanigans. Only the explanation leaves much to be desired. Jordan is completely tongue-tied when the malefactor mouths off about the all-knowing infiniteness of internet and the culpability of unscrupulous ciphers like him who can remotely manipulate and extort others like nobody's business. Like Jordan, Cummings and McCabe's film is unable to retort, as though the script doesn't know how to lacerate such enormity, nor it sheds enough light on the practicalities of operating a scam so grand. When Jordan finally comes clean to Caroline, and vice versa, scarcely anything has changed in the lie of the land. Sad to say, THE BETA TEST winds up as a nonevent although one can begrudgingly acknowledge Cummings' endeavor to branch out.
THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY is a no-frill situation thriller. Waiting for a gas station's pumps to be refueled, a motley of characters are marooned in a diner abutting the station. Among others, there are two bank robbers, Travis and Beau (Logan and Brake), with the plunder still lying inside the trunk of their car, a kitchen knife salesman with no name (Cummings) and Charlotte (Donahue), the diner's sole employee. Random local customers including an unknowing police officer Gavin (a baby-faced Paolo), the gas station attendant Vernon (Love) and an Indian ranger Pete (Proudstar). "You will die for our rhubarb pie", that is an ominous catchphrase.
The tension eventually leads to a deadly Mexican standoff which involves 5 guns shooting among sundry parties, leaving the salesman the only survivor (not before he must put his knife into good use). Will he inform the police or abscond with the money? The film comes off as a telling exemplum of how easy avarice can corrupt even a decent soul (the salesman is again, a single father en route to see his young daughter). Think on his foot, the salesman is compelled to rub out two unfortunate passersby and avoids the pursuit of the grieving sheriff (Abbott Jr.), who is Charlotte's husband. Imagine, what good outcome could that brings? YUMA COUNTY is a lean, highly entertaining fare that suggests Galluppi might have a better place in the sun than Cummings apropos of manufacturing genre works.
Through the tetralogy, Cummings the actor has successfully established a unique persona: high-strung, angst-ridden, incoherently gabby when he is nervous, all grafted upon the substratum of a fairly ordinary human being. He is most magnetizing when he brazens himself out of an embarrassment. However, behind the camera, Cummings' craft has yet to be differentiable from other journeymen in the field. Although the jury is still out as it is far too early to predict Cummings’ futurity, one simply hope his final destination is not a jack of all trades and master of none.
referential entries: Lawrence Michael Levine's BLACK BEAR (2020, 6.2/10); Josephine Decker's SHIRLEY (2020, 7.6/10); Michael Sarnoski’s PIG (2021, 7.2/10); Emma Seligman’s SHIVA BABY (2020, 7.5/10); Carter Smith’s THE PASSENGER (2023, 6.8/10).
Title: Thunder Road
Year: 2018
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Music: Jim Cummings
Cinematography: Lowell A. Meyer
Editors: Jim Cummings, Brian Vannucci
Cast:
Jim Cummings
Kendal Farr
Nican Robinson
Jocelyn DeBoer
Macon Blair
Chelsea Edmundson
Ammie Masterson
Bill Wise
Jordan Ray Fox
Shelley Calene-Black
Rating: 6.7/10
Title: The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Director/Screenwriter: Jim Cummings
Music: Ben Lovett
Cinematography: Natalie Kingston
Editors: Patrick Nelson Barnes, R. Brett Thomas
Cast:
Jim Cummings
Riki Lindhome
Robert Forster
Chloe East
Will Madden
Jimmy Tatro
Skyler Bible
Annie Hamilton
Hannah Elder
Kesley Edwards
Anne Sward
Demetrius Daniels
Kevin Changaris
Chase Palmer
Rating: 6.2/10
Title: The Beta Test
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Language: English, Swedish, Mandarin
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Directors/Screenwriters: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe
Music: Ben Lovett
Cinematography: Kenneth Wales
Editor: Jim Cummings
Cast:
Jim Cummings
Virginia Newcomb
PJ McCabe
Jessie Barr
Kevin Changaris
Jacqueline Doke
Olivia Grace Appelgate
Wilky Lau
Lya Yanne
Malin Barr
Christian Hillborg
Rating: 5.8/10
Title: The Last Stop in Yuma County
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Francis Galluppi
Music: Matthew Compton
Cinematography: Mac Fisken
Cast:
Jim Cummings
Jocelin Donahue
Richard Brake
Nicholas Logan
Faizon Love
Michael Abbot Jr.
Connor Paolo
Gene Jones
Robin Bartlett
Ryan Masson
Sierra McCormick
Jon Proudstar
Barbara Crampton
Sam Huntington
Alexandra Essoe
Rating: 6.9/10
在一个边陲小镇，法外之地，时常发生一些“冻人”的传说，听起来就觉得刺激。
但咧这么大嘴，好像也没有必要。
看起来也是个美女，可惜为了营造气氛，早早就领了便当。
此后，发生了一系列杀人事件。
说实话，大雪配上大血，还是很有视觉效果的。
作为小镇唯一的执法单位，当然想查明真相。
从这里开始，故事开始探讨其他主题。
案件，只不过是一个契机。
想看到狼人，需要等很久。
毕竟这货一现身，基本所有的惊悚元素表现完毕，故事开始收场。
故事的查案过程，好像没什么好说的。
一开始兜兜转转，一点都不想给观众点线索。
大概是线索相对单调，给了，基本就猜到凶手了。
故事最后关头，狼人终于现身。
所有的真相大白，好像都是“哦，原来就是这样啊”。
大都底没兜住的结果，都是这样的收场。
不过，故事好像也没想着说一个惊天大案，查案的过程，其实还蛮有意思的。
戏不够，美女凑。
出场的几个美女，颜值还是在线的。
影片没有想要表现的重心。那只狼好像被忽视了，这么重要的狼，最后结局也只是轻描淡写，窝囊至极。还有越是恐怖场景，美片惯用手法是遇到危险定会好奇心泛滥，先心怀恐惧也要试探，遭遇后大声嚎叫。然后整个片子都是在各种争吵中展开，一个个都是狂躁症，看得莫名其妙。如果不是穿着警服，言行跟警察身份格格不入。美国警察要是都这样的，那简直是个笑话。情节非常杂乱，感觉很搞笑，可是又觉得很低级趣味。
今年到底怎么了？不就是点疫情吗？不光搞得经济一塌糊涂，怎么电影也都是烂片一片呢？
脑袋都因为隔离太久，不好使了？一个狼人的故事就能大张旗鼓的拍拍电影了？
狼人，警长，美女，每个正常的。
警长跟神经病似的，打这个骂那个，开除这个辞退那个的？你以为警局还真是你家的，整个一个暴躁狂？
美女们也是，真是发扬了美国人疫情都不怕死的精神，连环杀手更不怕了，一个接一个的傻傻赴死？
反观这个狼人，感觉是精神病，但是不是精神病也能杀人，他这个精神病杀手特殊在哪，最后也没弄明白。