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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.

　　一名厨师终于开了自己的高档餐厅，但地址选在了乡野传说中女巫住过的“鬼屋”，可怕的事情发生：食物里有虫子爬出，血腥事件来临……

　　亚历克斯失败后过去了73年，人类也失去了半机械人的战争。从那时起，人类就被奴役了。科学家们已经开发出一种新的DNA毒株，这可能标志着Cyborgs的终结，并将其注射到志愿者身上。当生化机器人了解到这个女人和婴儿时，他们都要终止。为了逃跑，她带着一艘偷来的半机械人的船，在1980年回到了东非，在那里，母亲被杀，但孩子得救了。这需要20年的时间，但半人半人的猎人星云最终找到了这个名叫亚历克斯的女孩，并及时赶回来终结她的生命。

早苗的恋人，在雨夜惨死于都市传说中「祸祸女」的诅咒之下——传闻这只女鬼带着潮湿的黑发，循着背叛者的气息索命。亲眼目睹恋人被拖入黑暗的早苗，被无尽的恐惧与恨意啃噬，她循着「祸祸女」的传说碎片，踏入被诅咒笼罩的阴暗角落。调查中，她撞见无数令人寒毛倒竖的诡异异象，每一步追查都在揭开恋人死亡背后的谎言，那只游荡的女鬼，始终在她身后带着冰冷的注视，等着她看清藏在黑暗里的真相。