巴克斯泰爾，薇拉·巴克斯泰爾

　　一位科學(xué)家在一次試驗(yàn)中，發(fā)現(xiàn)用腦波可以使一只鉛筆穿透銅板，不過(guò)，他的實(shí)驗(yàn)室在一次大火中毀滅，這位科學(xué)家不得不投靠他的哥哥。他的哥哥也在進(jìn)行著另一項(xiàng)實(shí)驗(yàn)，他發(fā)現(xiàn)重新組合原子結(jié)構(gòu)可以產(chǎn)生巨大能量。他與弟弟合作，利用弟弟的腦波和實(shí)驗(yàn)心得，改變?nèi)魏挝镔|(zhì)結(jié)構(gòu)，形成“四度空間人”?！　〔贿^(guò)，“四度空間人”使用一次均會(huì)失去時(shí)間而老化，必須不斷增加能源，而每次吸取能量，就會(huì)將老化轉(zhuǎn)移他人，于是他不斷殺人以維持青春。究竟四度空間人會(huì)不會(huì)最終被消滅，請(qǐng)觀眾自己品味?！　”酒瑯?gòu)思新穎，運(yùn)用高科技手段拍攝，是觀眾有身臨高科技時(shí)代的感覺，當(dāng)然，這指的是身在影片所屬的年代！

　　1941年，第二次世界大戰(zhàn)如火如荼。英國(guó)倫敦遭到納粹法西斯的毀滅性轟炸，成千上萬(wàn)的人流離失所，更有無(wú)數(shù)兒童淪為孤兒。為了躲避戰(zhàn)火的蹂躪，陸軍軍官的妻子海倫·霍格女士（海倫·麥克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 飾）與伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·?？怂?Phoebe Fox 飾）帶著孤兒們登上列車，輾轉(zhuǎn)來(lái)到一處偏遠(yuǎn)所在避難。經(jīng)過(guò)長(zhǎng)途跋涉，她們抵達(dá)目的地并被安排在臨時(shí)的占時(shí)軍隊(duì)醫(yī)院落腳。只不過(guò)它的前身這里正是那個(gè)黑衣女人橫行盤桓的Eel Marsh House。才脫狼穴，又入虎口，驚慌失措的女人和孩子們即將迎來(lái)比戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)更為可怕的噩夢(mèng)，惡靈的殺戮有序展開……　　本片根據(jù)英國(guó)小說(shuō)家蘇珊·希爾（Susan Hill）的暢銷小說(shuō)改編。

　　一對(duì)兄弟在他們的莊園附近發(fā)現(xiàn)了一具殘缺不全的尸體，于是召集當(dāng)?shù)厝艘黄鹫{(diào)查。他們很快了解到，村子里發(fā)生的怪事是由一個(gè)惡靈引起的，這個(gè)靈魂進(jìn)入了一個(gè)當(dāng)?shù)厝说捏w內(nèi)，他們等待著通過(guò)適當(dāng)?shù)某绦蝌?qū)逐他體內(nèi)潰爛的惡魔。主角們不得不與迫在眉睫的危險(xiǎn)賽跑，試圖擺脫惡靈無(wú)情的魔爪。

　　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.