危險美人心

等待方舟

　　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.

怪物驚魂

　　某年圣誕節期間，位于一個僻靜舒適角落的格蘭達爾森林旅館正式開業。美麗的女店主阿哈娜（碧帕莎·芭素 Bipasha Basu 飾）為了這一天可謂煞費苦心，她以一己之力安排旅館內的一切事務，與此同時第一批客人也接二連三入住。雖然狀況不斷，不過旅館的開業儀式總算順利進行了下來，而且她還因誤會結識了擁有迷人氣質的客人庫納爾·阿南德（Imran Abbas 飾）。然而在前一晚，給旅店送貨的司機遭到不明生物的襲擊，死狀可怖。次日，一對新婚燕爾的夫妻也在叢林中遇襲。　　恐怖的死亡氣氛迅速蔓延，阿哈娜好不容易建立起來的夢想旅館，面臨怪物的無情毀滅……

北地獵人

　　In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.

赤腳大仙

急凍奇俠

　　故事開始于明朝，鳳三（元華 飾）心腸歹毒，無惡不作，身為錦衣衛，同時又是鳳三的師弟，方守正（元彪 飾）發誓要將鳳三繩之于法。然而，鳳三此人詭計多端，甚至想要偷取能夠扭轉時空的黑玉佛，借此逃脫法網，幾番爭斗之后，兩人雙雙跌落山崖。　　時光荏苒，轉眼已是現代，考古隊在雪地中挖掘出了鳳三和方守正被冰封住的尸體，將兩人運往美國研究，然而，途中一場意外卻令兩人死而復生。方守正于機緣巧合之下遇見了名為阿玉（張曼玉 飾）的不良少女，陰差陽錯的成為了她的保鏢，而鳳三不改奸邪本性，加入了黑社會，繼續為非作歹。當方守正得知鳳三依舊作惡多端后，他決定繼續自己未完成的使命。

時速72

　　百萬富翁Diego Verastegui（Gustavo Alatriste 飾）在他自己的家里被殺害，保險箱里寶貴的公文包也被取出來了，當Diego Verastegui的保鏢回到家時，他發現了三名犯罪嫌疑人：Carlos Verastegui（George Akram 飾），百萬富翁的兒子；Anna Karina（Guillermo Londo?o 飾），一個可愛的女孩；安德烈斯，一個放蕩不羈的魔術師。三人各執一詞，究竟他們誰才是殺害Diego Verastegui的兇手？