恐龙岛

　　由21 个闹剧穿插一部科幻短片组成的闹剧，导演罗伯特（《怪异的阿尔 杨克维奇》）、约翰（《动物屋》）等等都是环球影片公司的一线导演，他们的共同特点就是在搞怪搞笑方面各有绝招。这些短片大都是对美国夜间电视节目和低成本科幻片的戏仿，故事包括一个男子受到他所住的房子攻击、一场由喜剧演员主持的葬礼和被吸进电视机里的人等等。　　眼花缭乱 满嘴放炮

　　1453年，东罗马帝国陷落后，地处中欧的神圣罗马帝国，不得不直接面对土耳其人的侵扰。土耳其人热衷扩张，虽然他们信奉伊斯兰教，但他们认为他们才是真正的“罗马皇帝”，神圣罗马帝国的皇位，已由哈布斯堡王朝掌权两百年，他们是基督教世界的最后保卫者，双方再维也纳一决高下：一方信誓旦旦，另一方誓死捍卫。

　　驱魔龙族马氏家族传人马小玲（吴千语 饰），肩负着除邪惩恶的家族使命。而二流侦探况天佑（黄宗泽 饰），则凭借奇特能力屡破奇案。但实际上他一直在掩饰着不死不灭疯狂噬血的“血族”身份，本来相安无事的日子，被一道“暗影”打破，两人在调查一起暗影袭击的事件中相遇，出生入死的瞬间，百年恩怨所结下的宿命之锁，似乎已悄然解开……

　　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.