妖兽都市1987

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.

毛骨悚然撞鬼经 25周年特别篇

77号顶层公寓

　　Luna, a cruise ship chambermaid, has to quit her job to attend to her sick brother. While doing so, she discovers that her mother has gone missing and her brother's condition is getting progressively worse. The siblings desperately sneak into an empty condo unit but soon discover that Penthouse 77 is not what it seems.

疯狂海盗团2

　　挚友雷文和粉红公主在令人闻风丧胆的海盗、七海之王剑齿虎船长的麾下服役。狡猾的格罗尔伯爵夫人西比拉袭击了他们的船，偷走了珍贵的船首像并绑架了粉红公主—这一切都是她精心策划的，旨在诱捕剑齿虎船长，征服海盗的家园。

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拥有15年资历的资深女狱警，得知自己所负责的收容人美英母亲的死讯，之后开始展开的故事。狱警在告别式场以及殡仪馆遇见了美英的女儿俊英，这短暂的相遇，给三人的生活带来了温暖的变化。

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上世纪九十年代，特大伪钞案暗流涌动，社会动荡不安。退役散打王郑明为救治白血病女儿，意外踏入凶险的伪钞产业链，在生死边缘挣扎求生。刑警谢家同誓破伪钞源头，二人从针锋相对到暗中周旋，上演猫鼠博弈。郑明在暴利与良知间反复拉扯，暗中向警方传递线索，试图戴罪立功。当他决心交出核心伪钞母版、彻底脱身时，女儿却被绑架要挟。绝境之下，他与谢家同放下隔阂，联手出击，在宗族宗祠与民俗游行中展开终极血战，捣毁庞大伪钞帝国，以热血捍卫正义与亲情。