人間中毒

監控錄像

　　《幽靈人間》：一幢豪華的別墅內，年邁的主人坤桑遇刺身亡。他曾留下遺囑，將房子留給一對連體的雙胞胎姐妹花。但是條件只有一個，姐妹倆必須為祖父首領三天。守靈之夜，怪事頻發，鬼影幢幢，殺機四伏；《第11層天堂》：在名為“Heaven 11”的超市內，開業不到兩個月內，接連4名店員自殺身亡。從收銀臺前的監視器內，可以清楚看到自殺收銀員的身影。所見之人，不寒而栗，死亡詛咒仍在繼續，純情的收銀女孩步入死局；《第八層地獄》 ：命運凄慘的女孩在大廈電梯間被粗暴蠻橫的負心漢殘忍殺害。美人香銷玉殞，但冤魂久久不散。電梯間內，血腥的一幕重復上演，輪回不止……

真正的痛苦

 為紀念逝世的奶奶，許久未見的堂兄弟大衛與班吉相約前往波蘭參加導覽團，也順道探訪奶奶的老家。一路上，班吉有話直說、率性風趣的性格迅速與同團人士拉近距離，令木訥拘謹的大衛既焦慮又羨慕，壓抑已久的情緒日益沸騰。然而，隨著旅途種種安排不斷挑動班吉的敏感神經，他的狂放不羈似乎逐漸走向失序，大衛試圖息事寧人，但內心的不安卻席卷而來。這趟尋根之旅，能否解決彼此心底難以言說的痛楚？

殺出魔鬼鎮

　　美聯社、《生活》雜志等著名媒體都曾報道過1964年的“月光兇殺案”，當時小鎮墜入一片恐慌，一到黃昏就全鎮戒嚴，全副武裝的警察上街巡邏。直到三個月再無襲擊發生，警察才逐漸撤出。1976年，曾有一部根據該案件改編的同名影片上映。兩名幸存者描述兇手有六英尺高，頭戴面具，只露出眼睛和嘴巴。　　2014年版《殺出魔鬼鎮》中，連環兇殺再度開始，面具殺手時隔六十多年重現特克薩卡納，究竟是有人故意模仿，還是有更恐怖的事情暗中醞釀？一個孤獨的高中女生，似乎知曉解開這一切的秘密。

藍眼睛米奇

　　米歇爾?法爾蓋特（休?格蘭特 飾）經營一間拍賣行，他是個溫和的英國人，拍賣行的生意一向很好。他感覺成家的時候到了，便向他最愛的女友吉娜（詹姆斯?凱恩 飾）結婚。可是吉娜對結婚一詞十分抗拒，她不愿意跟米歇爾結婚。這樣使米歇爾疑惑極了，他認為女友是十分愛自己的，為何不能從此一同生活呢？　　直到后來，他才明白了吉娜的苦心。原來吉娜的父親是一名黑幫老大，深愛著米歇爾的吉娜不愿自己的丈夫被卷進復雜的黑幫環境中。就算米歇爾向吉娜保證自己不會牽涉進去那些麻煩當中。　　可是事情并不如人意，他還是因為這個黑幫岳父惹來了很多麻煩，甚至被警察調查。從此，米歇爾也莫名其妙的成為了黑道中人……

教皇行動

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.