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 Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe, faces a personal crisis at the peak of his success. As his world unravels, he struggles with his beliefs and inner demons while seeking a path through adversity.

　　两个正在“成名路上”摸爬滚打的工薪阶层YouTuber，为了取回不小心丢进一座废弃豪宅的篮球，决定进入这个诡秘的地方。他们在屋里互相恶作剧，打闹嬉戏，还用手机记录下这次“短暂冒险”。为了吸引更多粉丝，他们在视频里特意添加了一个假鬼影效果。没想到，视频一经上传就迅速走红。　　于是，他们发起一个大胆挑战：如果视频播放量达到预定目标，他们将会在深夜再次进入这栋老宅，这次毫无防护，完全“裸探”。随着粉丝们热烈响应，他们真的兑现了承诺。然而，这一次，他们不仅将揭开豪宅背后的秘密和那些神秘“住客”的真相，也逐渐意识到一个令人毛骨悚然的事实——或许他们自己已经不再属于这个世界了。　　面对这一切，一个问题浮现：为了成名，你究竟愿意付出多大代价？

　　Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you leave only when you die. Since nobody ever leaves the prison, nobody knows what the prison is like. The prison manager realizes this and buys himself an island playground called "Absolom," where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule...a living hell. Robbins is sent to Absolom after he almost kills the prison manager.

　　小有名气的惊悚小说作家苔丝·索恩（玛丽亚·贝罗 Maria Bello 饰）受邀去某地进行演讲，人生地不熟的她迷失方向，汽车还在某个根本没有手机信号的地方爆胎。当她手足无措的时候，孔武健壮的卡车司机（威尔·哈里斯 Will Harris 饰）出现答应帮她更换轮胎，然而这个暴徒见色起意，对苔丝进行了残酷的虐待，还把她丢在了一个浸泡着三四具女性尸体的坑道中。侥幸逃命的苔丝一路跌跌撞撞回到家中，她曾尝试报警，却最终三缄其口。在接下来的日子里，苔丝从混乱中理清头绪，她决定用自己的方式向那只禽兽展开报复……　　本片根据斯蒂芬·金的短篇小说改编。

　　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.