本能 Basic Instinct (1992)

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.

地狱无泪

我们埋葬死者

　　艾娃（黛西·雷德利 饰）是一名绝望的妇女，她的丈夫在一次灾难性军事实验后失踪，她加入了一个“尸体搜寻小组”，但当她埋葬的尸体开始出现生命迹象时，她的搜寻工作发生了令人毛骨悚然的转变。

校园鬼

　　1）因和同学打赌赌输，朴贞元、云贞等三个女孩被迫潜入传说中闹鬼的废弃校舍内探险。她们战战兢兢、心慌意乱，闹出不少自己吓自己的笑话。然而，女孩们的吵闹惊动了此前曾死在这里的一个女孩的怨灵，她似乎有意将这三个冒失的闯入者留在这里。　　2）圆圆和齐齐是一对情同姐妹的好朋友，但是她们的友情正受到严峻的考验。她们同时喜欢上帅气的学生会主席，也因成绩优秀将共同角逐校长的推荐升学资格。一切朝着不可预测的方向发展。　　3）高中男孩具有敏感体质，他能看到周围的鬼魂。他在教室中被一个少女的鬼魂缠上，女孩死于非命，而杀害她的凶手的鬼魂不久也尾随前来……

大司机

　　小有名气的惊悚小说作家苔丝·索恩（玛丽亚·贝罗 Maria Bello 饰）受邀去某地进行演讲，人生地不熟的她迷失方向，汽车还在某个根本没有手机信号的地方爆胎。当她手足无措的时候，孔武健壮的卡车司机（威尔·哈里斯 Will Harris 饰）出现答应帮她更换轮胎，然而这个暴徒见色起意，对苔丝进行了残酷的虐待，还把她丢在了一个浸泡着三四具女性尸体的坑道中。侥幸逃命的苔丝一路跌跌撞撞回到家中，她曾尝试报警，却最终三缄其口。在接下来的日子里，苔丝从混乱中理清头绪，她决定用自己的方式向那只禽兽展开报复……　　本片根据斯蒂芬·金的短篇小说改编。

思绪膨胀

　　以提利昂·克莱顿（Steve Hanks 饰）为首的美国军方人员进行着一项秘密计划，名为“思绪膨胀”计划，这项计划掌握着各种操控天气的秘诀。一个小组希望利用这个计划改变世界，例如为干旱地区带来降雨。但意想不到的效果产生了，这个机器正悄然毁灭着美国的城市...