VN.006 SiByl李思宁

驱魔

　　律师艾琳（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）接到一桩官司。一名神父由于用宗教手段——驱魔仪式来治疗女孩艾米莉的重病，因而使得艾米莉耽误了正确的药物治疗时间。法庭上，一场宗教与科学之争展开了。　　事件的开端，源于19岁女大学生艾米莉（珍妮弗·卡彭特Jennifer Carpenter饰）的恐怖遭遇。她在大学宿舍睡觉时，感觉有灵异恶魔来侵，接下来更为惊悚的事情陆续发生。艾米莉一反常态，她变得双眼发黑，行为怪异，整日活在犹豫恶魔缠身的梦魇中，艾米莉无法控制自己的意志，痛苦得生不如死。家人为她找来精神病医生，却毫无起色。无奈下，请来神父（汤姆·威尔金森 Tom Wilkinson 饰）一探究竟，才得知艾米莉被远古六恶魔上了身。万魔缠身的她，只有通过宗教仪式进行驱魔，才有可能逃出生天。　　神父的驱魔并没有挽救艾米莉，还引来了控告。无神论者却认为，恶魔缠身是无稽之谈。

壮志千秋

 故事发生在美国西部大开发时期，燕西（理查德·迪克斯 Richard Dix 饰）带着妻子莎布拉（艾琳·邓恩 Irene Dunne 饰）千里昭昭来到了广袤而又荒芜的俄克纳马拉，心里怀揣着远大的理想，希望能够在这里做出一番建树。俄克纳马拉的生活环境十分艰苦和险峻，然而，夫妻两人同心协力，慢慢改善和建立着他们的家园。在日子渐渐稳定的过程中，在当地生活的牧场主们感到他们的利益受到了侵犯，他们常常会找燕西的麻烦，却又被燕西用智慧巧妙的化解。燕西十分同情在当地生活的印第安土著，与此同时，嫉恶如仇的燕西亦对压迫和剥削原住民的资本家们充满了仇恨，随着时间的推移，双方的矛盾渐渐尖锐起来。

岳家小将

 公元1126年，北宋靖康元年。漠北女真人以4万铁骑入侵中原。由于太上皇宋徽宗的昏聩以及军备疏散，金兵长驱直入，如入无人之境。一路烧杀抢掠，直攻到东京汴梁。城破之日，金兵虏徽、钦二帝，是为靖康之耻。此后钦宗之弟赵高继位，是为高宗。一代英雄岳飞护佑高宗，被困牛头山。为迫岳飞投降，金将兀术派二太子金弹子（张成忠 饰）、三公主银铃子（张希玲 饰）和张兆奴（张跃宁 饰）前去偷袭岳家庄，欲虏岳母以作要挟。岳飞之子岳云（寻峰 饰）自幼喜好舞枪弄棒，一双银锤使得风生水起。他闻听父亲被困牛头山，计划偷偷前往助阵，却被几个兄弟掣肘。牛皋之子牛通（刘卫民 饰）偶然遇见伪装后的金弹子等人，无意中得知偷袭计划，于是连忙赶往岳家庄报信。得知消息的岳家小将们整饬装备，等待即将到来的一场大战……

毛骨悚然撞鬼经 25周年特别篇

送葬人

　　本片改编自Jonathan Penner小说《The Bridge To Body Island》。讲述的是三个大学生，特雷弗·梅西,杰弗里·索罗斯和西蒙·赫斯曼在校外无意间释放出一种超自然实体的故事，凯瑞·安-莫斯、费·唐娜薇等影星倾力加盟。

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.