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 一颗陨石撞击苏格兰偏远森林，意外唤醒了自尼安德特人时代就蛰伏地底、以骨骼为食的远古克苏鲁式怪兽 “守骨异兽”。1976 年，调查者詹姆斯・惠勒深入洞穴后离奇失踪，仅留下一张怪兽剪影的 8mm 胶片。数十年后，他的孙女奥利维亚为寻找同样失踪的母亲，带领一群好友与怪兽专家哈里斯教授，深入洞穴系统调查连环失踪案，却不知自己正被这只地底生物步步猎杀，陷入绝境求生的猎杀游戏。

　　1963年，一伙黑帮分子在老大的指使下将一对情人残忍杀害，男子被埋在“十世受苦，不得超生”的阴穴处；而女子被扒皮，皮罩在灯笼上，永世不得超生。　　1993年，蛊惑仔阿辉（梁家辉 饰）终日倒霉透顶，而且身边连连发生奇怪灵异世间。阿辉在古董摊买下一古董表，却被一股力量莫名牵引到一栋废宅里，半梦半醒间见自己与一个叫小芙蓉的艺旦（邱淑贞 饰）亲热的场面。　　辉在医院被一鬼魂提醒只有四婆能够解救自己，于是他前往找四婆。四婆为他问米，他从盆中之水渐渐看到了自己的前世悲惨遭遇……

　　致力于研究暴力行为根源的世界著名心理学家阿曼达·泰勒博士，有一个访谈和评估死囚杰克逊·谢伊的良机，随着访谈的开始，决定杰克命运的天平失去了平衡，阿曼达必须决定是否应该允许执行死刑！

　　记者玲（李心洁饰）的男友Peter获得一宗刑事案件的新闻线报，前去取证途中突然遭遇交通事故意外身亡。玲觉得事有蹊跷，调查后发现一宗模特命案。女模特Helen裸死于家中浴缸，富豪之子张承志没有不在场证据，但事件竟被警方低调处理，张承志的相关证据也被消除。玲为不愿男友枉死，誓要调查出事件真相，但报社总编辑曾达时（梁家辉饰）却不愿为玲伸出援手。无奈之下，玲只好求助常常被追债的飞(黄秋生饰)与马仔(葛民灰)帮助她调查真相。飞原来是警察出身，在调查中，他发现Peter的死因确有蹊跷。随着调查的进行，黑暗中的黑手不断想将玲置于死地，究竟事件的真相能否登上报纸的A1头条？真相与言论自由的赛跑，在香港的午夜开始。

　　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.