美味人妻

　　影片改编自艾拉·莱文的同名小说，讲述1968年著名恐怖片《罗斯玛丽的婴儿》的前传故事。　　年轻舞者Terry Gionoffrio（朱莉娅·加纳 Julia Garner 饰）遭受了毁灭性伤害，当一对富有的老夫妇承诺给她成名机会后，她发现自己被黑暗力量所吸引。

　　陈文俊（洪金宝 饰）和张定其（张学友 饰）只是警队中的无名小卒，却在机缘巧合之下被指派到神探（姜大卫 饰）手下助其侦破“千面人”之案。没想到，一场意外中神探不幸丧生，可是，心愿未了的他显然不愿就此归去，而是化为冤魂，缠上了陈文俊和张定其两人，要他们破案为自己报仇。　　神探威胁陈文俊，若不帮他报仇，就要破坏他和女友乔娜（王祖贤 饰）之间的姻缘。经不住神探的死缠烂打和卑鄙威胁，个性胆小怕事的陈文俊只能答应下来。就这样，陈文俊和张定其开始了对案件的追查，在神探的暗中帮助下，他们最终将罪犯捉拿归案，陈文俊和乔娜亦有情人终成眷属。

　　在明尼苏达州北部的“边界水域”中，六个老朋友之间的周末露营之旅在神秘的环境下死亡后变得悲惨起来，随着他们企图在本集团内揭露杀手，引发进一步的动荡。

　　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.