高橋希来 – きらぴんちゃ

 孤独的科学怪人弗兰肯斯坦（克里斯蒂安·贝尔 饰）来到了1930年代的芝加哥，恳请顶级科学家尤弗洛尼斯博士（安妮特·贝宁 饰）为他创造一位伴侣。两人成功复活了一名被谋杀的年轻女子，“新娘”（杰西·巴克利 饰）就此诞生。然而事态发展却远超两人想象：谋杀接踵而至，占有欲疯狂滋生，新娘能否挣脱“被创造”的命运？在暗黑混沌的逃亡路上，一场女性觉醒风暴开始席卷整个世界。

　　一位扮演德古拉的演员在餐厅表演中临阵脱逃，引发了一场混乱的追逐战——游客与店主们集体围剿这名"吸血鬼"。与此同时，AI软件生成着德古拉故事的万花筒：从社会评论到未来主义改编，编织出重新定义这一传奇角色的叙事图谱。

　　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.

　　民国年间，张千月（杨坤锐饰）新婚之后进省城投奔同乡王明堂（李运佳饰），不成想晚上房间内发现床下有一个死尸，大批警察带走了旅社老板宋成安（周舟饰）、老板娘翠姐（黄娟饰）、住客顾满仓（王渊饰）、孙兴福（王正佳饰）、梁程思（刘锦饰）、门房老胡（季李饰）及房间内的张千月与王明堂。乡下的新婚妻子白秀英（何乙轩饰）与老父亲张广林赶至省城听审，老父亲接受不了这个严重的打击气绝身亡。这里面有不可告人的秘密。传说冤魂索命，这个事情不简单。一间旅馆、一个女尸、一群平民引发了一个意料之外的故事，展现了民国时期，灰暗的年代，军阀割据，官匪勾结，生活在社会底层的各种普通百姓，挣扎在水深火热之中，各种生活的无奈与社会现实的交织，人为了生存所做的一切挣扎.....一个投亲的少女灵芝（张依珂饰）引发了当地恶霸朱天久（李延饰）皮三（边防饰）残忍杀戮，牵扯无辜百姓，勾结当地警长康大鹏（周小鹏饰）利用贪官（高果饰）歪曲事实，残害无辜百姓，法官（常征饰）（杜伯饰）命悬一线。关联人李婉儿（李一明饰）四散逃命，江湖骗子（孔庆三饰）浑水摸鱼。更牵动大批爱国志士（许诺饰）（张玥饰）刺杀大帅庞金龙（张京海饰）督军孙连胜（吕一丁）为百姓申冤报仇！这一切的来龙去脉都由一名说书人（徐福来饰）娓娓道来。