情欲报复

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.

着牛仔裤的钟馗

　　香德祖（成奎安 饰）是一名香港皇家警察，他的老婆（王小凤 饰）怀孕待产，夫妻二人亲密非常。这一日，他们去医院检查的路上，遭遇一伙银行劫匪。出于职责，香抛下妻子奋勇上前追击。经过一番追车和搏斗，香制服歹徒，却被匪首暗算，致使钢筋穿胸而死，尸体被埋于乱铁之中。是夜，一只黑猫跳上香的身体，刚好猛雷劈下，香竟奇迹般复苏，变成活脱脱的僵尸。他复活后力大无比，但害怕阳光，还需要定期充电。香自知时日无多，决定对妻子隐瞒这个秘密，并将银行劫匪绳之以法。　　另一方面，匪徒当初逃跑时劫持少女Gucci（叶蕴仪 饰）为人质，混乱中Gucci拿着装钱的箱子逃跑。愤怒的劫匪四下寻找Gucci，当他们得知香还在人间之时，一番正邪大战在所难免……

诅咒：纳扎尔

拦截火狐狸

　　It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies....

急冻奇侠

　　故事开始于明朝，凤三（元华 饰）心肠歹毒，无恶不作，身为锦衣卫，同时又是凤三的师弟，方守正（元彪 饰）发誓要将凤三绳之于法。然而，凤三此人诡计多端，甚至想要偷取能够扭转时空的黑玉佛，借此逃脱法网，几番争斗之后，两人双双跌落山崖。　　时光荏苒，转眼已是现代，考古队在雪地中挖掘出了凤三和方守正被冰封住的尸体，将两人运往美国研究，然而，途中一场意外却令两人死而复生。方守正于机缘巧合之下遇见了名为阿玉（张曼玉 饰）的不良少女，阴差阳错的成为了她的保镖，而凤三不改奸邪本性，加入了黑社会，继续为非作歹。当方守正得知凤三依旧作恶多端后，他决定继续自己未完成的使命。

上海快车

 故事发生在一列行驶在中国大地的火车上，背景是中国内战时期。黛德丽扮演“上海莉莉”，从事茶花女式的职业。她在列车上跟旧情人邂逅，由此引发出一些故事。对于这位她一直念念不忘的英国军官，她百般示好挑逗，他却妒恨交加，不肯重拾旧爱。在半途被军阀拦检时，他为了阻止军阀对她动手动脚，出手打人；她则为了救他，同意委身军阀。往上海的路上，对生命跟爱情，都是一场严酷的考验。

阿特拉斯耸耸肩2

　　Feature adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.