藝術史

吞天巨鯊

　　太平洋某座生物研究所內，最新研究的魚類加速繁殖計劃得到了突破，并在繁殖力極低的鯊魚身上試驗成功。實驗室的科學家們大喜過望，稱這項研究將徹底解決全球食物問題。只有總負責人博士袁聰認為此舉會破壞現有的生態環境，力排眾議下令銷毀實驗鯊魚。然而實驗組的副手莫雷將這些鯊魚看成畢生心血，偷走幾條幼鯊準備轉移，誰知在路上被咬傷出了事故，幼鯊逃進下水道進入了大海。沒過多久，若干處海邊出現鯊魚群體襲擊事件，原來這些鯊魚的背后有一只超級巨大的母鯊......

毛骨悚然撞鬼經 2022夏季特別篇

愿大家擁有幸福

　　本作は田舎に住む祖父母に會いに行く看護學生の孫を主人公にした物語。孫は家族水入らずで幸せな時間を過ごすが、祖父母の家にいる「何か」に違和感を覚え、やがて人間の存在自體を揺るがすような根源的な恐怖に直面する。

地下室居民

　　一晚，三位姊妹潛入一位參議員的家，欲偷走他透過賄賂得來的錢。進行到一半時，她們聽見地下室傳來奇怪的聲音，決定前往調查。她們發現一位看似受到殘忍虐待的女孩被綁在床上。　　這個半身不遂的女孩請求她們救她，她們也決定幫她。但她們不知道的是，這個女孩並不是受到虐待，而是被一個強大的黑暗力量附身，它將打開另一個世界的大門。

死亡回放

　　在遭遇一場致命的入室犯罪時，這名瑜伽老師的一生在眼前閃現，她因此拼命穿越回過去，拯救深愛的男子。

137號案件

　　「為什么大家討厭警察？」男孩詢問母親。身為警察的史黛芬妮，負責的卻是警察暴力與失職案件調查。2018年，一名青年隨親友來到巴黎參與街頭抗議，卻因警方開槍，導致永久性腦部損傷。家人提出指控，警方卻矢口否認，關鍵證據亦是不足。內外壓力夾攻之下，史黛芬妮仍奮力調查，調閱攝像頭比對、還原警員動線，越逼近真相之際，同僚的敵意也越發強烈??

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.