聊斋志异之孽欲孤鬼

　　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.

　　马里斯特拉扎被称为建筑界的艺术家和大师，他所设计的建筑被同行奉为典范。在某个，一幢马里斯特拉扎的代表作拔地而起，然而这里却发生了惨绝人寰的凶案。许多无辜之人被砌在墙壁中，浇筑水泥窒息而死，这幢大楼也从此废弃。　　15年后，年轻美丽的女拆迁工程师萨曼莎（Mischa Barton 饰）自学校毕业，她从父亲手中得到拆毁那幢大楼的任务。萨曼莎独自一人前来，在这里认识了女管理员玛丽•苏特（Shannon Jardine 饰）和她的儿子吉米（Cameron Bright 饰）。从母子的口中，萨曼莎得知这幢大楼的一些禁忌，而在吉米的引导下，她逐渐发现这里阴暗的一面……

　　大老板(陈龙饰)所困的不法山客栈迎来了一群不一般的客官，这其中，来势汹汹的西域人究竟是何身份?群妖汇集在此蠢蠢欲动又所图为何?而路经此地的唐僧师徒四人又将变幻何人才能骗过众人耳目?在这座无法使用法力的神秘客栈，一场惊心动魄的西游版“狼人杀”即将拉开序幕。

　　位于法租界内的爱丁堡大学在校园东南角掘井时挖出两具尸骸。巡捕房陈探长闻讯带着儿子天生出现在现场。根据尸骸构架，天生初步推断死者是一双男女；在对尸骸现场处找到的手表、耳环、戒指进行鉴定时，法医韩玲惊骇而痛苦的发现，死者中的女性竟然是自己十年前突然失踪的妈妈宋敏，另一名男性死者应该是妈妈的同事梁仲平。　　奇巧而惊骇的发现让韩玲陷入痛苦的回忆：十年前的1921年12月17日，妈妈和同事梁仲平去北京出差，从此杳无音信。从韩玲的回忆中寻找蛛丝马迹，陈探长和儿子天生前来拜访梁仲平的遗孀周心美。自从丈夫梁仲平失踪后，学校安排周心美带着精神有些异常的儿子梁远负责管理学校图书馆。　　拜访周心美，天生除了得知宋敏、梁仲平、王世杰十年前作为学校三名教授师从于宋敏的丈夫韩达仁、长期从事科学研究以外，还发现精神异常的梁远对数字特别敏感，尤其是不自主地念叨的诸如1921 1217 1428数字，引起天生的注意。天生对梁远的故意刺激，从梁远的嘴里发现学校唐校长与十年前宋敏和梁仲平遇害一案有关。　　陈探长调查唐校长，天生侧面接触已经远离学术界、如今沦为酒鬼的王世杰，从王世杰的回忆中得知韩达仁因病去世后不久梁仲平就对宋敏心生爱慕，好色的唐校长因打宋敏的主意和梁仲平数次发生冲突。然而，结果却证实王世杰和唐校长都不是谋杀的凶手。消除了对王世杰和唐校长的怀疑，目标直逼周心美。　　王世杰的回忆，表明周心美确实产生过毒死宋敏和丈夫梁仲平的迹象。此时，周心美的追忆、梁远失神时对数字的异常反应，将“凶手”锁定在梁远身上。曾经拿注射过毒剂的夹心糖毒死耗子的梁远被巡捕房拘捕。案情看似了结，天生却感觉另有隐情。果然，王世杰的供词让天生重新回到周心美身上。　　在儿子梁远一再念叨的几串数字中，周心美终于说出事情的真相：十年前，梁仲平因爱慕宋敏而遭拒绝，在宋敏决定远赴德国的那天，也就是1921年12月17日14时28分，梁仲平拿儿子注射过毒剂的夹心糖致宋敏死亡，然后自己殉情自杀。那一幕，成了梁远永远而痛苦的记忆。案情真相大白，韩玲推开纱窗，任凭阳光撒满流淌着泪水的脸。