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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.

對于16歲的女孩Jung-hee來說，一年中最困難的一天是她祖母的陣亡將士紀念日。鄭熙通常很難和酗酒的母親相處，但在這一天，她大喊大叫的祖父的妹妹來了。她每年都會責罵正熙的母親和叔叔，問她為什么為自殺的祖母做追悼會，而不考慮找到離家出走的祖父。自從他的祖父在正熙出生的那天失蹤后，正熙不知怎么地覺得這是她的錯。所以Jung-hee決定去冒險，在那里她可以解開所有的秘密，結束她母親的青春期。

　　在近代日本坊間流傳著這樣一個傳說，名叫島禮子的美麗少女被美國大兵輪奸，在此之后她精神失常，臥軌而死。島禮子一縷幽魂不散，化作只有上半身的恐怖惡靈。它極端憎惡紅色，每晚出沒在橫跨鐵路的天橋上，并在路過之人背后發出“嗒卡嗒卡”的聲音。一旦路人回頭，它便將對方攔腰斬斷。即使僥幸逃過，在接下來的72小時內也必然遭到“嗒卡嗒卡”的獵殺。　　高中少女大橋可奈（大島優子 飾）的好友綾花夜歸遭遇“嗒卡嗒卡”，遇害身亡。克奈在祭拜好友時，同樣見到這個恐怖惡靈，不過僥幸逃脫。然而死亡的陰影仍然籠罩在她的頭上，在女大學生平山理繪（山崎真實 飾）的幫助下，她們一同出發尋找求生的辦法……

　　經典恐怖片《養鬼吃人/猛鬼追魂》將拍新版電影，近日定下導演：大衛·布魯克納(《黑森靈》《鬼作秀》)。　　原版講述男子Frank不慎打開了另一個次元，被著名惡鬼“針頭鬼”帶領的魔鬼Cenobites所殺。而多年后，Frank的哥哥Larry帶著妻子Julia，搬到了他已故的媽媽的老宅中，因為一次意外，Larry的血讓Frank的尸體重生，也讓惡鬼降臨……后成了一個系列。新版將從系列第一部開始重啟，據稱將在忠于原版的基礎上有進化。　　Spyglass媒體公司打造。Ben Collins和Luke Piotrowski編劇，大衛·S·高耶(《蝙蝠俠：黑暗騎士三部曲》《刀鋒戰士》)提供故事并參與制片，這個導演、編劇、制片組合也就是今年圣丹斯電影節的熱門恐怖片《鬼屋》的班底。