义嫂春色

　　在大雨瓢泼的星期五，帕克夫人（Kassie Wesley DePaiva 饰）突然身体不适，跌倒路旁的水坑中痛苦死去。该事件给她的家人以不小的打击，三个孩子伊莉丝（安拜·柴尔德斯 Ambyr Childers 饰）、萝丝（朱莉娅·加纳 Julia Garner 饰）和罗瑞（Jack Gore 饰）忧伤不已，男主人弗兰克（比尔·萨奇 Bill Sage 饰）却似乎格外震惊。在孩子们的眼里，爸爸是至高无上权力的象征，女孩们渴望像同龄人一样快乐自由成长，却无奈必须服从爸爸的命令。笼罩在淡淡悲伤中的帕克家，隐藏着令人不敢直视的恐怖秘密，一本日记揭示着家族注定被诅咒的命运和历史。　　与此同时，小镇周围的人口失踪事件和意外被洪水冲出的手指骨，引起了有心人的关注，帕克家的秘密即将大白天下……

　　讲述冠宇（张庭瑚 饰）因与父亲武雄（李兴文 饰）不合，为了赚钱早日搬离家，与好友龟仔（李明仓 饰）一起到旅社打工，不料打扫的房间竟有人自缢身亡，房内充斥不祥的泰国符号，而旅社老板娘（吴奕蓉 饰）更是举止诡异，整间旅社弥漫着死亡的气息，向冠宇席卷而来。

　　马拉西亚的卖座冠军片，马拉西亚恐怖片。　　六个名校女生玩刺激扮鬼上身，吓到学校请来法师驱邪，穿帮后被罚留校几日，继续搞鬼玩出鬼，嗜血的恐怖之门一打开就没得回头……

　　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.