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　　郑家村，突然发生了一系列似怪异的事件。 众人来到郑家老宅，郑浩民在了解情况后，特邀请曾经的同事，考古学教授张信安前来一同进行科学调查。 张信安等人来到郑家村与郑浩民等开展了一系列的调查工作。 张信安在观察了郑家老宅后，从科学依据做出判断，郑家老宅四面环山傍水，阴湿气重，在地理上形同一个低洼混区，导致磁场混乱，各种正常人感知不到的微弱电波无法散发。 就在调查即将接近真相的时候，两位教授遭受莫名攻击，陷入可怕幻觉，导致两人当场昏迷。 事态进一步恶化，破开迷雾的重任压在了韩斌和张紫涵这一对年轻恋人身上。 韩斌在经过一系列的诡异后终于找出缘由。

　　在一个平凡的美国小镇，同性恋男孩被人杀害，他的死却引起了广泛争议。自称代表上帝的牧师艾宾·库伯（麦克·帕克斯 Michael Parks 饰）带领信众游行示威，控诉着世间各种丑态与罪行。另一边，高中生特拉维斯（Michael Angarano 饰）、贾罗德（Kyle Gallner 饰）、比利-雷（Nicholas Braun 饰）却相约夜晚出行，寻找属于青春时代的放浪与刺激。谁知渴望狩猎的少年，反倒成了他人的猎物。他们落入库伯及其信众的陷阱，随时都会失去生命。　　另一方面，美国枪支管理局的特工约瑟夫·吉南（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰）逐渐掌握库伯囤积枪支的证据，一场无关正义与道德缺失的攻防战即将展开……

　　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.

　　A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.