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　　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.

判妖邪

　　殘?zhí)苼y世，瘟疫橫行，傳言妖女吳雙化為邪祟禍害人間。然而，吳雙的哥哥不良人吳令，從不相信自己善良的妹妹會(huì)是所謂妖女，他決心以縫尸還魂的秘術(shù)，復(fù)活被斬首的妹妹，在暗影涌動(dòng)的瘟神廟中，設(shè)下詭局，審判真正的惡人，求一份清白與公道?！　∮捌鶕?jù)短篇小說《古廟夜譚》改編。

養(yǎng)鬼吃人9：?jiǎn)⑹句?/h3>史蒂文·布蘭德,丹尼爾·布蘭,Jolene Andersen

　　某個(gè)晴朗假日，美國(guó)青年尼克（Jay Gillespie 飾）和好友史蒂文（Nick Eversman 飾）驅(qū)車穿越國(guó)境線，打算前往墨西哥的提華納尋找一次絕佳的艷遇。他們很快便鎖定了一個(gè)性感尤物，但是突如其來的意外讓二人的狂歡設(shè)想灰飛煙滅。正當(dāng)他們垂頭喪氣之際，某當(dāng)?shù)厝怂徒o二人一個(gè)精致的魔方。尼克和史蒂文的命運(yùn)就此改寫，他們也有如人間蒸發(fā)一般消失?！　∧峥撕褪返傥牡氖й櫧o各自家人莫大的打擊，在一次家庭聚會(huì)中，艾瑪（Tracey Fairaway 飾）從兩人的行李中找到了那枚魔方，而渾身是血的史蒂文也突然出現(xiàn)在房間內(nèi)。家人們對(duì)此感到驚奇喜悅，卻不知道丁頭鬼的魔爪正慢慢伸向他們……

霧人前傳

　　1978年，死亡峽谷。警官戴維?麥克阿里斯特（David Stanbra 飾）將殺人如麻、殘酷血腥的霧人（Ben Gunther 飾）繩之于法，這個(gè)作惡多端的噩夢(mèng)最終死在毒氣室里?！　r(shí)間回到現(xiàn)在，警長(zhǎng)麥克阿里斯特（Robert Pine 飾）即將退休，他的兒子哈里斯（Michael Muhney 飾）則尾隨父親當(dāng)上了警察。父子二人在六角餐館用餐時(shí)，遭遇了在逃的賭場(chǎng)搶劫犯。雙方展開對(duì)峙，年輕氣盛的哈里斯引起大爆炸，兩名劫匪劫持餐館女招待瑪雅（Mircea Monroe 飾）逃亡。在救援部隊(duì)遲遲未到之時(shí)，戴維帶著兒子展開謹(jǐn)慎的追蹤。不過令雙方始料未及的是，似乎有另一個(gè)神秘、恐怖的殺手將他們玩弄于鼓掌之中。邪惡的霧人精神不死，重返人間……

她的重生

　　影片在舒緩的節(jié)奏下呈現(xiàn)了一位女性重塑自我之路，故事主人公安娜為她十幾歲時(shí)犯下的謀殺罪已經(jīng)服刑15年，雖然服刑期滿，但周圍異樣的眼神意味著 對(duì)她的審判仍未結(jié)束。安娜離家遠(yuǎn)行來到一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)并找到工作，準(zhǔn)備開啟新生活，但她仍需與封閉、恐懼、偏見不停斗爭(zhēng)，那些舊日時(shí)光留下的黑洞，必須由她親自填補(bǔ)。