罪恶与快感的狭间 JUX-204

超能计划

　　在新奥尔良的街道上，关于神秘新药丸的消息开始传播开来，这种药丸可以解锁每位使用者独特的超能力。但问题是：在服用之前，没人知道用药后会发生什么。一些人会进化出防弹皮肤、隐形能力和超强力量，也有很多人会表现出更致命的反应。但是，当药丸使城市内的犯罪升级到危险水平时，当地警察（约瑟夫·高登-莱维特饰）与一名少女小贩（多米尼克·菲什巴克饰）和誓报私仇的退伍士兵（杰米·福克斯饰）联手以硬碰硬，他们冒着服用药丸的风险，以追踪并制止制造出该药丸的团队。

老周夜惊情

年过半百的养蜂人老周一生被金钱困扰，身患重病后不愿拖累在外打拼的儿子，独自住进一家老旧酒店，打算在最后一夜写下遗书，安静告别。 　　可这一晚，他却接连迎来三位不速之客：行踪诡异的房客、闹得鸡飞狗跳的年轻人、带着熟悉气息的少女。 　　三段荒诞又惊险的奇遇，让老周亲身经历了如同电影般的“犯罪”“闹剧”“爱情”。他由此渐渐懂得，亲情与真心，远比金钱更加珍贵。一夜之间，他对人生、对陪伴、对爱，都有了全新的答案。

格吉（杀人鬼）

异形帝国

　　故事背景是未来世界的洛杉矶，此时已有三十万的外星人劳工移民进入美国，跟地球人打成一片。地球刑警塞克斯的搭档惨遭杀害，为了找出真凶，他只有接受外星族警察法兰西斯作为新搭档。在追查真相过程中，两个不同种类的刑警逐渐消除了对彼此的不信任，以及克服在不同种族查案时遇到的阻碍，合力对付主要的嫌疑犯——不怀好意的地球企业家泰伦斯·史丹普。

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.

非礼勿视

　　八个感化院的青年在两名警官的监督下，前往乡间一所破败的客栈中接受社区服务，但是他们的到来却无意中惊醒一个沉寂已久的恶魔。雅克布•古德奈特 饰（Glen Jacobs 格兰“凯恩”雅克布 饰），身高七英尺，体重四百磅，头骨里嵌着一个生锈的铁盘，锋利的指甲足够戳穿对手眼睛的精神病患者。　　雅克布四年前曾被警官弗兰克•威廉姆斯（Steven Vidler 饰）枪击头部，却侥幸逃生。如今弗兰克正是这群青年的督导员。弗兰克和孩子们的出现激起了雅克布屠杀的欲望，他举起巨斧，将客栈变作血腥的屠宰场……