牧人的性玩偶

等待方舟

　　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.

吾輩本如斯

瀉湖惡棍

　　一位悲痛欲絕的年輕女子必須面對(duì)她內(nèi)心深處的恐懼和一種致命的水生生物，努力證明湖底的恐怖是真實(shí)存在的。

惡魔在上

　　Two estranged brothers come together and discover old family secrets after inheriting their grandfather's property. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by a creature lurking in the shadows.

恐懼之靈

一名男子在郊區(qū)一間空蕩蕩的房子里醒來(lái)，沒(méi)有記憶，手臂上沾著血跡。當(dāng)他瘋狂地洗掉血跡時(shí)，他發(fā)現(xiàn)那不是他的。他在房子周?chē)l(fā)現(xiàn)了一些便利貼，上面寫(xiě)著:“不要呆在這個(gè)房間里?！薄皠e出去?！薄皠e下樓?！彼械嚼Щ?，試圖追蹤這些神秘的信息，最終發(fā)現(xiàn)了兩件事。他與母親和女兒的記憶有某種聯(lián)系，還有住在這所郊區(qū)房子里的惡魔。當(dāng)他越來(lái)越接近解開(kāi)他為什么在那里的謎團(tuán)時(shí)，惡魔變得越來(lái)越強(qiáng)大，考驗(yàn)著他的生存意志。

金屬之聲

 一個(gè)搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)的鼓手（里茲·阿邁德）突然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己失聰，他的樂(lè)隊(duì)搭檔露（奧利維亞·庫(kù)克）和他都很懊惱，但又不得不面對(duì)這殘酷的現(xiàn)實(shí)。影片去年在多倫多電影節(jié)首映，作為導(dǎo)演處女作獲得媒體好評(píng)。

周二謀殺定律

一群有組織地前往里斯本的游客在第一天早上其中一人被殺后，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己正在調(diào)查一起謀殺案。當(dāng)他們參觀(guān)美麗的里斯本景點(diǎn)時(shí)，開(kāi)始在人群中尋找兇手。