湿谷秘探

　　雅各布（Zak Kilberg 饰）是一个奇怪的小伙子，他似乎患有一种怪病，这种病令他无法生活在阳光之下，长久以来，雅各布一直都隐藏在黑暗之中，直到有一天他邂逅了一位名为玛丽（Maya Parish 饰）的调酒师，相互吸引的两人很快就坠入了爱河之中。　　渐渐的，玛丽察觉到了雅各布异于常人的地方，他的行为举止不仅变得越来越古怪，雅各布还必须时时克制自己越来越汹涌的嗜血欲望。为了获得血液，雅各布杀了人，现在，他需要担心受怕的事情又多了一件，如何躲避警察的调查成为了重中之重。可即便如此，雅各布还是深深的爱着玛丽，为了能够将玛丽留在身边，雅各布不得不做出更加出格的举动。

　　有个惊吓过度的小女孩在沙漠游走，唯一吐出的只有一个字：怪物！任何50年代恐怖片迷都会马上告诉你，她所指的”怪物”就是巨蚁，那是在当地核子试爆后的副产品。这些巨蚁非常有组织，嗜肉且体型巨大，约有8到20呎，它们群聚在洛杉矶的下水道系统，彷若一个巨大的蚂蚁园区，准备好要接管这个世界。要和这些怪物对抗的人类精英是新墨西哥警署探员詹姆斯惠特摩，联邦调查局代表詹姆斯亚尼斯，和一对由埃德蒙关恩和乔安妮威尔登所饰的父女档昆虫学家。

　　改编自泉朝树创作的同名畅销漫画，讲述女高中生突然发现自己能看到鬼魂，她选择假装看不见，即使同学被鬼魂缠身，她也视而不见。她能通过这种方法克服这场危机吗？

　　女警阿玲（舒淇 饰）身边有一对儿痴狂的追求者，但她的心思在那个梦中搭救她的白衣男子身上。好友祖儿（陈逸宁 饰）得到了一份前往马来西亚拍摄广告的工作，心情不佳的阿玲随同旅行。介绍祖儿工作的波比陈（林雪 饰）为人轻浮好色，暗中还是黑市交易中间人，波比陈正筹划从大哥潘（任达华 饰）手中引进飞弹导航系统，而这一交易，被两名私家侦探华哥（许绍雄 饰）和埃里克斯（安志杰 饰）伺机破坏。埃里克斯误会阿玲是波比陈的交易对象，而阿玲则认为埃里克斯是自己的梦中英雄，两人怀着不同的目的开始交往。另一方面，香港小贼阿蟹（杜汶泽 饰）盲打误撞破坏了波比陈和大哥潘的交易，几路人马陷入了冲突和误会……

　　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.

　　一晃十年过去，地球人和虫族的战争如火如荼，愈演愈烈。某日，空军元帅奥玛•阿诺克（斯蒂芬•霍根 Stephen Hogan 饰）来地球人的远方农场罗库山视察，时任上校的强尼•瑞克（加斯帕•范•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）也一同前来。在此期间，阿诺克的心智被虫王操控，他切断了隔离区的电力，使基地完全失去保护。是夜，虫族对隔离区发动总攻，地球军虽顽强抵抗，终因寡不敌众而告败，基地陷落。阿诺克则和一干心腹逃离，飞船迫降在OM-1行星。　　瑞克因失职被军事法庭判处绞刑，行刑之际被政府秘密部门救下。阿诺克知晓联邦舰队基地所在地的秘密，一旦被虫族得知将不堪设想。因此政府高层要求瑞克带上一队人马，前去营救受困的阿诺克……