在知名補習班里，流傳著一個恐怖傳言：只要在深夜走上被封鎖的四樓，填寫桌上的報名表，寫下上榜的愿望，不論再困難的考試與科系，都能如愿考取。資優生貝兒與好友們前去試膽，愿望竟奇跡般一一成真，卻伴隨著接連不斷的離奇死亡。肩負母親對醫學院的期待，貝兒也在名單上留下自己的名字，自此怪事頻頻纏身；姐姐精神逐漸崩潰，弟弟貝斯為救她挺身而出，決心以自己的名字改寫命運。隨著真相逐漸揭開，他們赫然發現四樓深埋的秘密，竟與一段駭人師生往事緊緊相連……當對考試的渴望仰賴超自然力量，而這種成功卻要以生命為代價時，是畢業，還是斃命？他們能夠在瘋癲的教育體制內活下來嗎？

　　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.

　　瑪拉（裴淳華 Rosamund Pike 飾）經營著一家監護人公司，她專門尋找身體情況欠佳同時又無依無靠的老年人下手，通過并不是那么合法的手段令自己成為他們的法定監護人，將他們送進療養院，之后便可接手和變賣他們的財產和房產，再將所得據為己有。　　某日，瑪拉將下一個“吞噬”的目標放在了一位名叫珍妮弗（黛安娜·維斯特 Dianne Wiest 飾）的老太太身上，經調查，珍妮弗沒有任何的親人，同時又擁有著價值不菲的遺產，簡直就是他們的最佳“肥羊”。在一番操作之后，珍妮弗被沒收手機關進了療養院，但此時的瑪拉和她的戀人兼合伙人弗蘭（艾莎·岡薩雷斯 Eiza González 飾）并不知道的是，她們惹上了一個不該惹，也不能惹的人。

　　一個誠實的科學家把死去的百萬富翁(多諾萬飾)的大腦保存在水箱里。多諾萬成功地把他強大的意志強加給這位科學家，并利用他來謀殺他的敵人。