愛(ài)與激情 Capriccio (1987)

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　　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.

血腥兄弟會(huì)

　　A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined.

紅嫁衣：紙新娘

中元鬼節(jié)，陰間大門(mén)洞開(kāi)！滔天鬼氣噴涌，無(wú)數(shù)怨靈哀嚎爬入人間！兇神惡煞的五猖兵馬手持染血鐵鏈，當(dāng)街撕扯活人魂魄，慘叫聲撕裂夜空！修羅城瞬間化成鬼域！陰陽(yáng)師葉無(wú)雙與厲飛云臨危受命踏入死地。然而，他們?cè)庥龅?，是遠(yuǎn)超想象的極惡兇靈：紅嫁衣紙新娘！夜半三更，回魂之夜，四名慘白紙人，臉頰涂著詭異腮紅，嘴角裂至耳根，關(guān)節(jié)咔咔作響，抬一口薄皮棺材，腳不沾地，直撲國(guó)舅府。翌日，國(guó)舅僅剩一張人皮，被折成紙偶塞進(jìn)棺中。紅嫁衣所過(guò)之處，寸草不生，活物絕跡！街坊鄰里，前日猶在寒暄，一夜之間，整條街住戶盡化僵硬紙人，臉上凝固著死前極致的恐懼！孩童撿起一張飄落的紅紙錢，當(dāng)晚全家七竅流血，身體在慘叫中干癟脆裂，化作紙屑！紙新娘索命降臨，無(wú)人生還！修羅城，這座活人之城，被無(wú)法抗拒的怨氣拖向無(wú)間鬼蜮深淵………

屠宰嘔吐娃娃

　　一個(gè)被自己的父母拋棄的女孩的故事，14歲就離家出走的她，被當(dāng)?shù)氐囊粋€(gè)牧師收養(yǎng)了。后來(lái)她所遇到的人，會(huì)給她本來(lái)就很悲慘的命運(yùn)帶來(lái)怎樣的影響呢？對(duì)于安吉拉·阿卜迪恩來(lái)講，為了她，他寧愿犧牲自己也要與撒旦達(dá)成死亡契約，這樣就可以讓她靈魂永生，為了報(bào)仇，她先去吧那牧師的教堂燒成了焦土，而牧師因?yàn)楹榷嗔硕涝诹私烫美?。可是后?lái)，她卻在都市的燈紅酒綠中染上了毒癮和酒癮，殊不知，她的腳已經(jīng)邁入了地獄之門(mén)…從做了艷舞女郎到做妓女，發(fā)現(xiàn)毒癮已讓她無(wú)法自拔，甚至他覺(jué)得撒旦也拋棄了她。

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