怪谈新耳袋：信弘先生

大宋淳祐七年，钦州灵龙镇灾患频现，民间谣言乃蛟龙作祟，需将童男童女投入锁龙井喂食蛟龙方能得享安宁。祭祀恶俗持续多时，不知多少无辜孩童葬身龙腹，灵龙镇哭声震天，家有幼童者皆人心惶惶。新科进士庄严担任主簿后，坚持进入锁龙井调查蛟龙事件，却不想竟因得罪龙王而锒铛入狱。灵龙县仵作小宛为救心上人，不远千里求请已金盆洗手的宋慈出山查明真相。案件疑点重重，宋慈和小宛联手突破重重难关，终于赶在庄严被斩之前查明真相，庄严得以平反，小宛也在众人的见证下正式向宋慈拜师学艺。然而眼看灵龙镇逐渐恢复平静，宋慈却发现原来真相并没有他想象中那么简单。

愁云惨淡的华盛顿市，一幢普通公寓内，单身妈妈克莉丝（艾伦·鲍斯汀 Ellen Burstyn 饰）和女儿芮根生活于此。然而近一段时间，克莉丝却被女儿种种怪异的举止折磨得烦躁不堪。芮根的行为举止怪异，迥异常人。克莉丝带她求医问卜，终无所获，甚至精神科医生也束手无策。万般无 奈之下，几近绝望的母亲求助于莫林神父（马克斯·冯·西多 Max von Sydow 饰），一个有着丰富驱魔经验的老者。恐怖的夜晚，神父与藏身少女体内的恶魔展开连番较量。这是一个注定让无数人永生难忘的恶魔之夜……
　　本片由William Batty根据1949年一起真实的驱魔事件创作的小说改编，荣获奥斯卡金像奖最佳混音奖和最佳改编剧本奖

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...