乱世银光

　　萝赛李奥（埃默罗德·图比亚 饰）是一名成功的华尔街股票经纪人。某天，萝赛李奥接到祖母意外过世的消息，于是前往祖母居住的公寓查看状况。因为暴风雪的关系，萝赛李奥被迫与祖母的遗体共度一夜。这时，一股邪恶力量占据了祖母的遗体，萝赛李奥成为家族世代流传诅咒的目标……。

　　高中生瑞科（卡斯帕•凡•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）毕业后，在女友卡门（丹妮丝•理查兹 Denise Richards 饰）的鼓动下，违背了父亲的意志，加入了机械化步兵学院，卡门亦加入了海军学院。　　在他们参加训练不久后，地球遭到了来自外星球的昆虫袭击。瑞科的亲人均惨遭杀害，卡门将拍摄到的影像传送给了瑞科。悲愤交加的瑞科率领部下投入到了对抗外星昆虫的战斗中。　　然而，军队低估了这些昆虫的实力。在一次遭遇战中，10万军队惨遭杀戮，只剩瑞科、卡门等几人侥幸逃生。瑞科亲眼目睹了恐怖的杀戮场面，意外获知了这些昆虫变得如此聪明、强大的秘密。瑞科意识到必须制造更先进的武器才能对付这些昆虫，人类的反击开始了！

莎菲拉是一名冉冉升起的新秀主持人，她有机会主持《Percaya Ngga Percaya》的重拍版。在研究旧录像时，她发现了一盘未播出的录像带，上面写着“Rumah Darah”，这导致令人不安的超自然事件威胁到她的生命。在调查 Rumah Darah 背后的秘密时，她发现了过去的黑暗秘密，这些秘密使她的灵魂处于危险之中。

　　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.