咖哩辣妹

　　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.

 某座美军废弃的地下工业基地，数年前因一系列恐怖事件而关闭。而今，无所畏惧的时尚男女在这里开启狂欢派对，纵情享乐之际全然不知危险将近。马特（Ross Thomas 饰）、米拉（Sofia Pernas 饰）、艾瑞克（Jeff D'Agostino 饰）、詹娜（Christine Evangelista 饰）、伊芙和斯托姆（Adrian R'Mante 饰）等六名好友在派对高潮和另一伙人发生矛盾，冲突过后，他们仓皇躲入一座地下设施内，结果却被对方反锁在里面。少顷曲终人散，马特他们遇见另外两个在此欢爱的男女。他们结伴寻找逃出去的路，谁知竟遭遇了恐怖嗜血的可怕生物。黑暗寒冷的地下，魔鬼的盛宴拉开序幕……

　　小青年汤姆（伊恩·德·卡斯泰克 Iain De Caestecker 饰）致电有过一面之缘的女孩露西（爱丽丝·恩格勒特 Alice Englert 饰），邀请对方参加即将在爱尔兰举行的音乐节。汤姆处心积虑规划行程，比音乐节预定提前一天到达目的地。他约女孩去网上预订的基拉尼旅店留宿。笔直的公路无限延伸至远方，四周但见无垠旷野，阴冷荒凉，几乎看不到一个人影。汽车在无聊和枯燥中行驶，天色慢慢暗了下来，而他们却迷失方向，始终找不到目的地。随着暮色降临，恐慌在彼此心底升起，他们在迷宫一般的丛林里失去方向，曾经轻浮暧昧的笑容不在。　　在漆黑旷野，一名满脸是血的男子突然出现在汤姆和露西面前。原本设想中美好的约会，注定变成万劫不复的噩梦……