巫毒激情

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.

庫梅爾·南賈尼：夜間思緒

宇宙毀滅記

　　一顆神秘小行星接近地球，后墜入海中，不想其實(shí)際上是外星的自動侵略武器，專門吸食地球的資源和電量，更可怕的是如果不能摧毀這個武器，還會有更多的外星武器來到地球。。

邪惡之屋

　　20世紀(jì)80年代，美麗的女大學(xué)生薩曼莎·休斯（喬塞琳·多納休 Jocelin Donahue 飾）看上一間公寓，好心的女房東已經(jīng)免去了麻煩的保證金，不過薩曼莎還是要為了每月的房租而努力。她從布告欄找到一份保姆的工作，當(dāng)晚，薩曼莎的好友梅根（格蕾塔·葛韋格 Greta G erwig 飾）送她前往雇主家面試。梅根對這份工作頗有顧忌，而薩曼莎似乎急于賺錢，全不在意。　　雇主烏爾曼夫婦住在荒郊野外的一幢老式別墅中，這里沒有小孩需要照看，文森特·烏爾曼先生（湯姆·諾南 Tom Noonan 飾）要為他生病的母親找一位護(hù)理人員。薩曼莎起初惴惴不安，但看在錢的份上她最終選擇留在這里。而她將為這個選擇后悔莫及……