公主与女仆

机器生活

　　一对理想主义的年轻夫妇获得了一个逼真得令人惊叹的机器人，机器人的帮助使他们无忧无虑，但随着他们日渐亲近，他们对人性的感知将会改变。

太空运输

　　23世纪中叶，地球已进入全面崩溃的阶段，战争和传染病让这颗原本美丽的蓝色星球破烂不堪，人类被迫离开赖以生存的家园，远赴外太空寻找新的栖息地。凭借TSA先进的技术，木卫五成为充满希望的新兴乐土。在此之后，大批地球人乘坐飞船前往木卫五，地球逐渐被人遗忘。　　然而就在此时，不断有人起来反抗，声称要推翻TSA利用机器对人类的麻醉和统治，并据此不断向空间站发起恐怖袭击。美丽的劳拉·波特曼博士（Anna-Katharina Schwabroh 饰）随一艘货船前去空间站看望亲人。在长达4个月的旅途中，大部分人需进入睡眠状态。劳拉担任了值班的任务，然而在这静寂的飞船里，似乎有其他人在暗中窥视着她。一桩桩阴谋渐渐浮出水面……

崛起

　　An isolated town in Alaska where a contamination occurs after a minor meteorite explosion.

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.

机械怪兽

幽旅巫咒

 性格孤僻、不近人情的小说家欧姆·鲍曼（亚当·斯科特 饰）带着父母骨灰，来到偏远阴郁的爱尔兰乡间，重返父母曾经最幸福的地方。他入住父母当年度蜜月的古老旅馆，却被旅馆员工告知，这间旅馆流传着一则禁忌传说，有一位古老女巫，长期徘徊在“蜜月套房”，而那间套房早就被封锁并列为禁区，所有人都被警告绝对不能靠近。起初，欧姆对此不以为意，但当旅馆出现离奇失踪事件，他也逐渐产生诡异幻觉，仿佛那个传说正渗入他的思绪，将他一步步拖入潜伏着超自然能量的噩梦深渊……