禁忌3

全面追缉令

　　亚历克斯（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）是一名资历丰富的警探，这一次，他被派遣负责国会议员女儿被绑架一案。杰姬（莫妮卡·波特 Monica Potter 饰）是负责保护被绑架女孩安全的特工，正为了自己的疏忽和失职自责不已，趁此机会，她强烈要求成为亚历克斯的搭档，一同侦破此案。　　随着调查的深入，一个名为加里（迈克尔·温科特 Michael Wincott 饰）的男人浮出了水面，除了绑架了议员的女儿，他还和城中发生的数起绑架案有着千丝万缕的联系。亚历克斯和杰姬随即展开了岁加里的追捕，然而，老奸巨猾的加里并不会轻易的被警方捕获，恰恰相反，在不知不觉间，亚历克斯走入了加里所设下的弥天陷阱之中。

格吉（杀人鬼）

犹大与黑弥赛亚

 影片改编自真人真事。讲述了1960年代美国黑人社团黑豹党历史上的真实事件，故事聚焦于Hampton之死，他于1969年被杀，死于芝加哥警察局和FBI组织的一次突袭行动。警方开了80枪，而“黑豹党”成员一共只开了一枪，这一枪还是来自于一位成员被警方打死后的肌肉收缩。Hampton与怀孕的未婚妻正在睡觉时，头部被近距离射杀2枪，他当晚被下了药，根本没听见任何警方的动静，死后尸体被拖进小巷中，年仅21岁。经过审讯，他的死被判定为“正当杀人”，后来在1982年，以185万美元的赔偿数额，达到了民事诉讼的庭外和解。

安息2

　　经过上一集的惨烈屠杀，汤米（汤姆斯·德科 Thomas Dekker 饰）侥幸和一名女子逃生，然而厄运如影随形，一名衣着考究的神秘男子追踪到了二人暂时栖身的小旅馆，以类似的手法残忍杀害了那名女子，汤米则在此之后下落不明。与此同时，神秘男子投入大笔金钱抢救了徘徊在死亡边缘的面具人（Nick Principe 饰）。苏醒后的面具人更加残暴，在神秘男子的指示下，他将目标锁定在时尚女孩杰丝（蜜米·麦克斯 Mimi Michaels 饰）的身上，一连串新的屠杀再次展开。　　另一方面，重案组持续关注近段时间发生的连环杀人案，汤米则成为案件突破的关键。新的屠杀，新的噩梦，在漫漫长夜顾自展开……

医神

　　田七（张达明 饰）是个精人，常喝醉打妻子当归（蔡少芬 饰），当归痛定思痛发誓要对夫报复，刚巧城中富商罗汉果欲寻名医，当归于是谎称丈夫会医术，并且要用精棍子揍田七，他才会应允他人治医，罗汉果信以为真，不但将田七痛打一顿，并将其接入家中，于是一场啼笑皆非的闹剧开始了……

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.