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.

挑戰未來

　　2027未來世界，恐怖主義彌漫全球，科技發達，使人類神經系統可用人工磁片來取代。機器人為達到蠶食人類的大陰謀，先了綁架國際間各國領袖，繼而派遣機器人復制繁殖以取代世界統治者的霸權。洛杉磯警界的杰出人物「雨水艾力」（奧利佛·顧納飾）察覺這項陰謀，他尋求各種行動以阻止機器人的野心，而艾力身上卻已被植入百分之十三人工器官……

迷失的欲望

外表漂亮的子晨內心充滿著欲望，漂亮的包包和高檔的手表的加持，子晨在人群中格外顯眼，子晨得到了極大的滿足。然而真正的奢侈品是愛情，子晨開始瞞著自己的丈夫和花花公子開始交往，隨著時間的推移，債務暴雷，情感更是騙人的游戲，子晨終于把自己推向了絕境。

?校正單元?

　　A group of violent and misguided young offenders are experimented on using brutal AI technology at a sinister institute.

毛骨悚然撞鬼經 25周年特別篇

Kill Tony：笑鬧德州

　　一分鐘、一支麥克風、毫不留情。在奧斯汀舉行的殘酷演出中，托尼·欣奇克利夫及一眾著名嘉賓對立志成為喜劇演員的參賽者進行考驗。