赤足惊魂

　　该片讲述因神经衰退正在接受治疗的智敏在亲眼目睹肇事逃逸事故后，总是分不清现实和幻想，并因此经历了神秘事件的故事。南奎丽饰演女主角智敏，这也是她时隔三年重返银幕，并首次挑战惊悚片，电影计划于今年9月开拍，预计将于2018年上半年上映。

2025年，在鹿儿岛县与冲绳县，搭载着配备手术室的特种车辆的渡轮已开始进行试运行。赴任的喜多见与夏梅在离岛从事医疗工作。某日，鹿儿岛县的诹访之濑岛发生火山喷发，为营救岛民，他们毅然挑战这项九死一生的任务。

　　一群朋友计划离开城市去海边度过一个轻松的周末，但事情发生了变化，一个年轻女子在一个偏僻岛屿的岸边向他们挥手求助。伸手救援便是致命的危险，他们不顾一切要逃离小岛。

林宇与三名女孩遭遇空难，不幸流落至一座荒无人烟的孤岛，刚上岸便遭遇一头凶猛的变异双头蛇袭击。危急时刻，容貌靓丽、身手矫健的当地女土著颂雅及时出现，凭借对岛屿环境的熟悉，成功引开双头蛇，将四人救至一处隐蔽山洞。在艰难的孤岛求生中，林宇作为唯一的男性主动守护众人，朝夕相处间，他与四名女孩渐生情愫，陷入了两难的感情纠葛。好景不长，思瑶惨遭双头蛇伏击吞噬，若琳也不幸遇害。悲痛之下，林宇、婉晴与颂雅联手，借助颂雅祖辈流传的经验，摸清毒蛇怕强光和特定植物汁液的弱点，巧用简易工具设下陷阱，最终成功消灭双头蛇，林宇也找到情感的归宿。

　　暑期返回夏威夷的露西（约翰尼·斯奎娅饰）与父亲亚当（特洛伊·科特苏尔 饰）、妹妹艾琳及宠物黑猩猩本团聚。趁父亲因工作离家，露西与好友凯特（Kate）、汉娜（杰西卡·亚历山大 饰）及凯特的哥哥尼克策划了一场泳池派对。派对期间，本被一只患有狂犬病的动物咬伤，温顺的黑猩猩逐渐变得凶残。众人被迫困在泳池内，且在无法求援的绝境中，必须协作智斗发狂的本以保全性命。

　　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.