九位年輕人, 一同出游到一個叫做法國鄉間的魯福瑞村去度假, 殊不知此村莊在上百年前的法國大革命時, 就已經受到死亡的詛咒, 每八年就會有慘案發生, 九位年輕人一到達村莊後, 便一個個消失, 這個神秘的村莊到底發生了什麼事?

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 洛基?巴爾博厄(西爾維斯特?史泰龍 Sylvester Stallone 飾)是費城的過氣拳擊手。他空有拳擊熱忱，卻只混雜于三流拳擊賽中。一天，他對售貨員艾黛麗安（塔里亞?希雷Talia Shire 飾）一見傾心，雖然這個姑娘長相一般，性格內向，卻毫不阻礙洛奇對她愛得熾熱。愛情得意，事業也開始一路暢通。為了慶祝美國建國200周年，當地舉辦了一個拳擊比賽，勝出者將獲得15萬美元的高額獎金。美國一個拳擊巨星在比賽中受了傷，主辦方選中了洛奇去上演一場“灰姑娘”式的比賽，大敵當前的同時，也是洛奇事業轉機、大顯身手的良機。洛奇在賽場上苦撐15回合，在面腫血流之際，會不會有奇跡的發生？

　　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.