致命的外遇 (1998)

　　生活在美国的莎拉·普斯（娜塔莉·多默尔 Natalie Dormer 饰）近日来心神不宁，她有一个孪生妹妹杰西（娜塔莉•多默尔 Natalie Dormer 饰）在日本担任外教。然而杰西突然下落不明，莎拉拜托山梨县警方帮助搜查，最终得到的结果是杰西可能进入了拥有“自杀胜地”之称的青木原森林自我了断。莎拉绝不认同警方的推测，她不顾男朋友的阻拦，独自踏上前往日本的旅途。她最先来到了妹妹任教的学校，在调查未果之后乘上了前往青木原森林的列车。他人的劝阻无法拦住莎拉的脚步，她朝向森林深处走去。　　在这一过程中，恐怖诡异的经历交替袭来……

中年诗人奥斯卡·雷斯特雷波沉迷于诗歌，却始终未获认可。他孤僻而失落，活成了“被遗忘的诗人”典型。一次偶然的邂逅，他结识了出身贫寒的少女尤拉迪，并试图引导她走上创作之路。随着两人关系的深入，奥斯卡将她带入诗人世界，却也让她面临理想与现实的冲突。

规则怪谈！鬼村见鬼！千年荒村自古有＂人鬼相处规则＂。青年男女结伴夜闯阴山鬼林，破坏规则，导致鬼灵还魂，鬼啸瘆人，鬼影骇人，鬼杀夺命！一个美艳女子突然被鬼现锁喉，另一个精壮青年又被鬼爪掏心……阴风阵阵，尖叫四起，一场排队送人头的祭献大戏阴森上演，生者想死无门，却又无处可逃！究竟是千年的冤魂冲破魔咒到人间索血啜饮？还是古老地狱中逃出的怪兽掠杀食人？土匪也惊恐逃亡，猎手也慌不择路！夜半的茅草屋，怪叫撕心裂肺，鬼脸贴窗凝望，野鬼BOSS终将现行，终极＂规则绝杀＂如期而至！众人早已灵魂出窍，一具具行尸走肉又将如何战栗？

　　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.