夜销魂

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.

恐怖列车

　　五名美国业余摔跤选手艾历克斯（Thora Birch 饰）、托德、克莱尔、威利、谢尔顿，在教练带领下远赴东欧参加摔跤比赛，虽然他们输掉了比赛，但当晚仍兴致勃勃参加了派对，以致耽误了第二天开往敖德萨的火车，由于语言不通，他们一时买不到车票，一位说英语的金发女郎出现，带领他们登上了车站内的一列红色火车。　　甫一上车，队员们的护照便被形容猥琐的男乘务员收去，这列经过改装的列车上赌场、餐车、休息室一应俱全，队员们很快远离其他语言不通的乘客，躲在休息室玩起了真心话大冒险，然而在游戏进行的过程中，托德消失在列车尾部，其他队员也一一失踪，艾历克斯很快发现，她要独自面对车上的几个活体器官摘除者……

玉米地的小孩：大逃亡

　　年轻的孕妇露丝逃脱了凶残的儿童邪教。在接下来的十年里，她匿名生活，试图使儿子免遭她小时候所经历的恐怖，但有邪恶跟着她，现在，她必须面对邪恶，或者失去孩子……

风车小骑士

"Giants of La Mancha" is an extraordinary and adventurous journey for the whole family, following 11-year-old Alfonso, heir to Don Quixote, and his three imaginary rabbits, which are joined by Pancho and Victoria. With their power of friendship, they save their beloved hometown somewhere in La Mancha from a huge storm.. They dream the impossible dream, overcome their fears, and use their imagination to find the real force behind the storm.

二十五世纪宇宙战争