性之睇验

　　经过上一集的惨烈屠杀，汤米（汤姆斯·德科 Thomas Dekker 饰）侥幸和一名女子逃生，然而厄运如影随形，一名衣着考究的神秘男子追踪到了二人暂时栖身的小旅馆，以类似的手法残忍杀害了那名女子，汤米则在此之后下落不明。与此同时，神秘男子投入大笔金钱抢救了徘徊在死亡边缘的面具人（Nick Principe 饰）。苏醒后的面具人更加残暴，在神秘男子的指示下，他将目标锁定在时尚女孩杰丝（蜜米·麦克斯 Mimi Michaels 饰）的身上，一连串新的屠杀再次展开。　　另一方面，重案组持续关注近段时间发生的连环杀人案，汤米则成为案件突破的关键。新的屠杀，新的噩梦，在漫漫长夜顾自展开……

　　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.

 性格孤僻、不近人情的小说家欧姆·鲍曼（亚当·斯科特 饰）带着父母骨灰，来到偏远阴郁的爱尔兰乡间，重返父母曾经最幸福的地方。他入住父母当年度蜜月的古老旅馆，却被旅馆员工告知，这间旅馆流传着一则禁忌传说，有一位古老女巫，长期徘徊在“蜜月套房”，而那间套房早就被封锁并列为禁区，所有人都被警告绝对不能靠近。起初，欧姆对此不以为意，但当旅馆出现离奇失踪事件，他也逐渐产生诡异幻觉，仿佛那个传说正渗入他的思绪，将他一步步拖入潜伏着超自然能量的噩梦深渊……

　　1988 年，心怀侦探梦想的费城警官托马斯·洛克哈特（波伊德·霍布鲁克饰演）开始追踪一名连环杀手，此人每隔 9 年就神秘地出现一次。但是当杀手的罪行开始违背所有的科学解释时，洛克对真相的痴迷可能会毁掉他的事业、家庭，甚至是他的心智。《月影杀痕》是一部混合题材的心理惊悚片，探讨了时间的力量，以及时间的流逝如何使我们相聚又分开。该片由吉姆·米可执导，其他主演包括迈克尔·C·豪尔和克利欧佩特拉·科尔曼。