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　　A large villa belonging to a collector that is about to be restored into a museum traps project workers who are carrying out a survey. A curse is released, killing the humans inside one by one

　　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.

一群邁阿密警察在一間廢棄的藏身屋發現數百萬現鈔，彼此之間的信任開始瓦解。隨著外部人士得知充公金額如此可觀，一切變得疑點重重，到底還剩下什么可以相信？又有誰依然值得信賴？

　　1941年，第二次世界大戰如火如荼。英國倫敦遭到納粹法西斯的毀滅性轟炸，成千上萬的人流離失所，更有無數兒童淪為孤兒。為了躲避戰火的蹂躪，陸軍軍官的妻子海倫·霍格女士（海倫·麥克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 飾）與伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 飾）帶著孤兒們登上列車，輾轉來到一處偏遠所在避難。經過長途跋涉，她們抵達目的地并被安排在臨時的占時軍隊醫院落腳。只不過它的前身這里正是那個黑衣女人橫行盤桓的Eel Marsh House。才脫狼穴，又入虎口，驚慌失措的女人和孩子們即將迎來比戰爭更為可怕的噩夢，惡靈的殺戮有序展開……　　本片根據英國小說家蘇珊·希爾（Susan Hill）的暢銷小說改編。