氣味相投

庫梅爾·南賈尼：夜間思緒

超級火山

當一座超級火山威脅到夏威夷島時，一組專家必須與時間賽跑，拯救那些在熔巖路徑上的人，并永遠阻止它。

追遠尋根

　　被譽為“史上第一部愛爾蘭語恐怖片”，《弗雷瓦卡》圍繞一位名叫休的護理工作者展開，她被個人悲劇所困擾。休被派往一個偏遠村莊照顧一位患有廣場恐懼癥的女性，她既害怕鄰居，也害怕納希德——她相信幾十年前被這些神秘民間實體綁架。隨著兩人建立起深厚的聯系，休逐漸被這位老婦人的偏執、儀式和迷信所吞噬，最終面對她自己的過去所帶來的恐怖。

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.

伉儷

　　一對愛侶Liz和Malcolm去到一座偏僻的小屋度假，Malcolm卻因意外先回城了，留下Liz獨自一人，她很快發現這座小屋有著邪惡可怕的過去，如今纏上了自己。

美麗新世界

　　本片改編自“ 阿道司·赫胥黎 ”同名小說。一個在原始社會長大，通過閱讀莎士比亞自學的野蠻人，突然有一天加入了他父母所在的未來社會。然而，他不能適應他們的生活方式……