君子好逑

断魂小丑

　　故事发生在万圣节的当晚，塔拉（Jenna Kanell 饰）和道恩（Catherine Corcoran 饰）醉醺醺的从一个派对中离开，走在清冷的大街上，两人打算去一家披萨店弄点吃的，一个小丑打扮的男人尾随她们也进入了店里，虽然小丑的样貌十分可怖，但个 性似乎还挺可爱的，除了他把店里的厕所弄的一团糟，气炸了店主。　　之后，塔拉和道恩离开了店里，塔拉进入了一间公寓上厕所，道恩在路边等她，小丑再度出现在了她的身后，这一次，小丑想做的便不仅仅是逗她笑这么简单了。小丑打晕了塔拉，当塔拉再度醒来时，映入眼帘的，是被倒挂的道恩和在一边手持电锯的小丑。

机械怪兽

被时间遗忘的人

　　本片根据艾德加·赖斯·巴勒斯的小说改编而成。讲述的是第一次世界大战期间，一艘德国潜艇在撞沉一艘英国人的船以后，救起了幸存者。但是这艘潜艇开错了方向，将这些幸存者带到了一片未知的土地上。那里，栖息着大量的恐龙和穴居人。他们能顺利地重返家园吗？

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.