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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.

　　圣誕前夜，雖然家人熱切地期盼，但美麗干練的女律師安吉拉（瑞秋·尼科爾斯Rachel Nichols 飾）仍在辦公室努力工作，進行最后的沖刺。繁冗的工作終至尾聲，安吉拉獨自下到地下車庫，準備驅車回家。不過她的車無論如何也發動不了，車庫電梯門也被鎖住，于是她只好向保安托馬斯（韋斯·本特利 Wes Bentley 飾）求助。托馬斯友善恭敬，熱情施以援手，卻不知其心中藏著怎樣的黑暗念頭。　　寫字樓大門緊鎖，致使準備乘計程車回家的安吉拉在此返回保安室求助托馬斯。時機業已成熟，托馬斯露出猙獰面目，他綁架了安吉拉，強迫她參加自己的圣誕晚宴。這個愛慕安吉拉的小男人，給安吉拉帶來一個宛如噩夢般的圣誕節……

改編自二宮敦人的超人氣恐怖小說《惡鬼病毒》，講述YouTuber內川智樹帶著他的朋友日名子、颯太和奈々枝來到傳聞中有著神秘失蹤事件的舊石尾村拍攝一段調查都市傳說的視頻。幾天后，警方在村外的一條隧道附近發現了四人租用的汽車，而在現場發現的一臺攝像機則記錄下了令人震驚的畫面。緊鎖的房屋、身著武裝制服的兒童、被關起來的成年人，以及在新月之夜發病的成年人......這個村子里究竟發生了什么？

　　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。