初始者

　　獲得第24屆圣丹斯電影節劇情片類評委會大獎的《雷管》，講述的是四位合作者出于興趣發明了一臺查錯儀器，卻意外地發現這臺儀器擁有強大的商業價值，最終四人相互爭斗的局面。《雷管》是導演什恩-卡魯斯(ShaneCaruth)首次執導的劇情長片，該片由他自己投資，并身兼編劇、導演、主演數職，體現出獨立電影的“DIY”精神。另外，令人津津樂道的是該片不足7000美元的超低制作成本，只相當于一輛富康車的價錢……

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.

黑神駒

 以《返家十萬里》揚名的導演卡羅爾·巴拉德一鳴驚人之作。以戲劇化的抒情風格描述一名男孩在船難中跟黑神駒同時漂流到荒島上，人與馬建立了兩位一體的非凡感情。后來他們獲救重回人類社會，巧遇老牌馬術教練，乃被訓練成出色的賽馬和小小年紀的騎師，在一次比賽中獲得冠軍。全片的攝影極為優美動人，尤其當時的童星凱利·里諾在沙灘上跟黑神駒玩耍的場面，在視聽效果上呈現出大自然之美的極至。米基·魯尼飾演的馴馬師在片中也占有重要地位，一老一少和馬之間的三角互動關系爆發出感人的火花，堪稱同類影片中的一流代表作。

瘋月

　　Six college grad students and a mysterious stranger battle a pack of ferocious werewolves in a secluded cabin.

老板和小可愛

從此以后

　　當Claire的女兒在一次瀕死體驗后表現出越來越令人不安的行為時，她開始相信自己的女兒把邪惡的東西從另一個世界帶回來了。