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　　Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" for Halloween. But when they replay the game that made the house infamous, they awaken an evil spirit intent on stealing their souls.

　　Jack（馬克·杜普拉斯 Mark Duplass 飾）因為弟弟Tom的去世已經消沉很長一段時間了，他的好朋友，也是Tom的前女友Iris（艾米莉·布朗特 Emily Blunt 飾）勸他騎著單車到她父親在一座小島上的屋子里去思考人生。來到屋子的Jack卻意外發現了Ir is的姐姐Hanna（羅絲瑪麗·德薇特 Rosemarie DeWitt 飾）也在。兩人喝了酒，相談甚歡,情不自禁地發生了關系。第二天，因為工作調整而放假的Iris也來到了這屋子里。三個各懷心事的人將上演怎樣一出喜?。?/p>

　　曾經馳騁戰場的退伍老兵安布羅斯·麥金利（Nick Damici 飾）終究也抵擋不了衰老和死亡的侵襲，妻子早年去世，兒子威爾（伊桑·恩布里 Ethan Embry 飾）兀自忙著事業，父子關系雖不冷淡卻也絕非親近，雙目失明的安布羅斯搭乘著兒子的汽車搬入名為克萊森特灣的老年社區，陪伴他的只有一條忠誠的狗狗。搬入當晚，住在隔壁的老婦人被一只餓狼模樣的怪獸襲擊身亡，而安布羅斯則經歷了極其恐怖且終生難忘的夜晚。從醫生口中得知，該社區每個月都會發生一次類似案件，但警方無一例外都將其歸咎為普通的野獸所為?！　〉貌坏接H人的救助，更無法奢望父母的庇護，安布羅斯只能融入社區，尋找拯救自己的辦法……

　　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.