帕利坦

　　孤独的少女米娅沉迷于通过陶瓷手召唤灵魂的刺激，但当她面对一个自称是她死去母亲的灵魂时，她释放了一场超自然力量的瘟疫，并努力决定她可以信任谁，是选择活着的人还是死者？

　　故事描述了陈伟（章宇 饰）和性感美女艾菲（亦涵 饰）前往一处废弃多年的化工厂做规划设计，却意外陷入了一连串恐怖事件的故事。一路上，艾菲作为第三者，主动示爱陈伟，两人暗地里偷偷交往，而陈伟则在背叛自己的女友的情况下接受了这种行为。他们抵达化工厂后，发现这里布满了诡异的氛围：墙上刻着血字，艾菲突然消失了。陈伟意识到自己可能已经陷入了一个危险的陷阱，成为了神秘人设计的牺牲品。　　陈伟与神秘人展开了搏斗，试图逃出险境。在这场斗智斗勇中，他们面临着生死攸关的局面。最终，是否能够成功逃生，成为故事的悬念。然而，即使逃脱了生理上的危机，陈伟还将面临道德和良知的拷问。他的背叛行为是否值得，他对自己和他人的所作所为是否感到内疚和后悔，这些问题也将成为他未来的挑战。

　　In “Muzzle: City of Wolves,” Jake Rosser (Eckhart), haunted by PTSD from his days as a K-9 officer, endeavors to lead a peaceful life with his family and retired K-9 companion, Socks. But the tranquility quickly dissolves when a ruthless gang targets them in a brutal attack. Determined to protect his loved ones, Jake and his new K-9 partner Argos delve into a violent underbelly of crime where Jake confronts corrupt officials, uncovers a perilous drug trafficking ring and battles his own inner demons.

　　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.