V娘的故事 'V': The Hot One (1978)

19 十九

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.

连环杀手夫人

　　一名医生因一连串令人震惊的凶恶案而入监服刑，他忠心的妻子打算模仿同样的杀人手法作案，借以证明他的清白。

神探瓦雷斯：绑票追缉令

　　不敢相信！浪荡不羁的瓦雷斯终于要结婚了，但是在婚礼上，瓦雷斯突然接到伴郎「解毒剂」的紧急来电，对方被帮派份子严刑拷打，需要他的救援。当他深入毒窟营救老友的同时，他新婚妻子的女儿被绑架了。瓦雷斯第一天当爸爸，就出大事了，为了营救继女，瓦雷斯被迫参与一场神秘诡谲的性爱邪教聚会，他分秒必争，必须抢在犯罪集团之前，拯救他所爱的人保护他的新家人。

加美拉对大恶兽吉隆

　　冒険好きな二人の少年が、宇宙船に閉じ込められ第十惑星に連れ去られ、宇宙人に食べられそうになる。そこにガメラが現れて二人を救う。宇宙人はギロンをけしかけるが、ガメラの敵ではなかった。第3作に登場したギャオスが再登場するが、ギロンにあっさりやられてしまう。

圣安地列斯地震

　　Molly Dunn（Jhey Castles 饰）从小热爱地理，她曾在半夜做实验闹得家人不得安宁，但是她并不是一个十分幸运的孩子，父亲很早就死于一场地震灾害中。长大后Molly成为了一名地质学家，在一所大学教书，某天她正在做一项预测地震的试验，安放在各处的传感器数据显示即将会有一场大地震发生，她必须通知所有人撤离，但是她的力量实在太薄弱了，并没有人愿意听信她的预测，地震如期而至，她只有与时间赛跑，尽可能的拯救更多的人。

弗兰肯斯坦的新娘

在弗兰肯斯坦怪物结婚的那天，村民们暴动并杀死了他。他的新娘逃跑了，发誓要报复负责的市民，并最终复活了怪物——在她身后留下了血迹。