戰栗情狂

　　正值青春期的少女艾瑪（蘇菲·瓦瓦希爾 Sophie Vavasseur 飾）因小事與父母發生爭吵，繼而用玻璃碎片割破自己的手掌。在此之后，父母子女的關系雖有所松動，但是新的危機已悄悄展開。艾瑪是不是會做出些奇怪的舉止，這令父母異常擔心，于是只得將艾瑪留在家中接受教育。期間他們嘗試帶女兒去看具有催眠本領的心理醫生，誰知醫生最終猝死艾瑪的膝上。艾瑪自感自己已被魔鬼附體，因此不顧崇尚科學的父母的反對，執意求助于因驅魔失敗而被革除神職的舅舅基斯（道·布萊德利 Doug Bradley 飾）。　　基斯似乎漸漸證實了艾瑪的猜測，而她體內那股邪惡的力量也變得越來越強大……

朱恩（June）在哥哥去世后搬到意大利，尋求新的開始。在她的新精英學校里，她被詹姆斯（James）吸引，詹姆斯是個勇敢卻危險的人，卷入了非法綜合格斗（MMA）比賽，但她卻開始和詹姆斯最好的朋友威爾（Will）約會，威爾是個完美的模范學生。然而，表象具有欺騙性，朱恩很快發現學校里的人都并非表面那樣，每個人都隱藏著秘密。隨著緊張局勢加劇，隱藏的真相浮出水面，朱恩需要決定自己的心真正屬于誰。

　　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.

　　一名過氣冰上曲棍球教練，在麻州小鎮中領導一隊二流球隊輾轉作戰，終于在最后一場比賽中挽回他失落的名聲。這是一部拍得相當直率粗暴的男性化運動片，冰上曲棍球的比賽場面經常可見互毆和流血鏡頭，加上對白的"四字經"不絕于耳，當年首映時也引起了不少爭論。曾經合作過金像獎電影《刺激：騙中騙》的導演喬治·萊希爾和明星保羅·紐曼，再一次表現出賣力的成績。