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.

　　When a cult that worships mind-altering parasites takes over a small town, a trio of women in lockdown are dragged into a fight for survival and revenge.

　　在一個平凡的美國小鎮，同性戀男孩被人殺害，他的死卻引起了廣泛爭議。自稱代表上帝的牧師艾賓·庫伯（麥克·帕克斯 Michael Parks 飾）帶領信眾游行示威，控訴著世間各種丑態與罪行。另一邊，高中生特拉維斯（Michael Angarano 飾）、賈羅德（Kyle Gallner 飾）、比利-雷（Nicholas Braun 飾）卻相約夜晚出行，尋找屬于青春時代的放浪與刺激。誰知渴望狩獵的少年，反倒成了他人的獵物。他們落入庫伯及其信眾的陷阱，隨時都會失去生命。　　另一方面，美國槍支管理局的特工約瑟夫·吉南（約翰·古德曼 John Goodman 飾）逐漸掌握庫伯囤積槍支的證據，一場無關正義與道德缺失的攻防戰即將展開……

　　外人看來，彼得（連姆·尼森 Liam Neeson 飾）無疑是一個幸福的男人，妻子麗薩（勞拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 飾）溫柔漂亮，兩人的婚姻穩定而美滿。可近日來，彼得發現麗薩的行為舉止越來越奇怪，多疑的他本能的想到，麗薩可能已經另結新歡了。面對妻子的出軌，占有欲極強的彼得感到妒火中燒，通過種種線索，一個名叫雷夫（安東尼奧·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 飾）的男人浮出了水面。　　追隨著麗薩的腳步，彼得來到了意大利，在這里，他果然見到了雷夫。狡猾的彼得決定先隱藏身份，接近雷夫。可是，隨著彼得和雷夫的關系越來越近，彼得發現自己漸漸無法控制自己的言行，他對雷夫的存在深惡痛絕，恨不得殺之而后快。