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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.

毛骨悚然撞鬼經 25周年特別篇

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A-1頭條

　　記者玲（李心潔飾）的男友Peter獲得一宗刑事案件的新聞線報，前去取證途中突然遭遇交通事故意外身亡。玲覺得事有蹊蹺，調查后發現一宗模特命案。女模特Helen裸死于家中浴缸，富豪之子張承志沒有不在場證據，但事件竟被警方低調處理，張承志的相關證據也被消除。玲為不愿男友枉死，誓要調查出事件真相，但報社總編輯曾達時（梁家輝飾）卻不愿為玲伸出援手。無奈之下，玲只好求助常常被追債的飛(黃秋生飾)與馬仔(葛民灰)幫助她調查真相。飛原來是警察出身，在調查中，他發現Peter的死因確有蹊蹺。隨著調查的進行，黑暗中的黑手不斷想將玲置于死地，究竟事件的真相能否登上報紙的A1頭條？真相與言論自由的賽跑，在香港的午夜開始。

凌晨是神的時間

　　據日本警方統計，每年僅提交申請的失蹤人口就達10萬人，其中9萬人的行蹤可疑確認，但仍有1萬人下落不明。位于遠郊的一座深山叢林，似乎具有著強烈的魔性，無數人進入這里，從此消失無蹤。少女繭（日南響子 飾）偶然和父親目擊一輛綁架了少女的車，父女倆一路追蹤，走上了不歸之途；家庭主婦真奈（桐島れいか 飾）十年前曾在林中丟失長女，如今他的小女兒阿櫻離家上學后也一去不返；正在拍攝恐怖電影的新人女演員麗奈（飛鳥凜 飾）結束工作后，不得不穿越那座恐怖的森林，其中的景象與聲音令她戰栗不已；小女孩薰（藤本七海 飾）受托照顧鄰家的孩子，可是她卻遭遇了一個恐怖的人形。　　不同的人，不同的故事，同樣的恐怖……

噬血芭蕾

　　據DL報道，Radio Silence團隊將執導環球影業未定名怪物電影。　　Radio Silence是馬特·貝蒂內利-奧爾平、泰勒·吉列特、賈斯汀·馬汀內斯（已單飛）和查德·維拉利亞四人于2011年成立的一個電影人組合，曾執導或部分參與制作的作品有《致命錄像帶》系列、《惡魔預產期》、《一路向南》、《爆血新婚夜》、《驚聲尖叫5》、《驚聲尖叫6》等，主打驚悚題材。　　該項目將類似之前的新版《隱形人》和即將上映的《倫費爾德》，是對環球旗下經典怪物角色進行全新詮釋的驚悚類作品。　　環球對預算、分級和影片具體類型沒有任何限制（no restrictions on budget, rating or genre），它們不是任何“電影宇宙”的一部分，每部電影都能夠獨立存在、發揮創意。整個方向強調作者驅動，環球歡迎任何有原創性、有才華、敢于嘗試的創新型電影創作人為旗下的角色開發故事。