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　　为给身患重病的父亲交付医药费，电工文斯（萨姆·赖利 Sam Riley饰）不得已卖掉了房子。一次偶然的机会，文斯在他修理的房间里得到房主的一封神秘信件和一张不知道终点的火车票。一面是房主的离奇意外死亡和完全未知的危险旅程，一面是一笔足够改写人生的巨额财富，文斯最终还是决 定踏上这次神秘旅程。然而当他抵达隐蔽的目的地之后，等待他的却是一场无法全身而退的疯狂杀人游戏。　　本片翻拍自2005年法国犯罪惊悚影片《百万杀人游戏》（13 Tzameti），依旧由原作导演兼编剧的格拉·巴布鲁阿尼执导与编剧。萨姆·赖利、米基·洛克、杰森·斯坦森、雷·温斯顿等多位硬汉同台演绎这场生死博弈。

毛骨悚然撞鬼经 2021特别篇

肖菲勒

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.

七个以下

　　The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.

宇宙巨人：希曼崛起

 亚当（尼古拉斯·加利齐纳 饰）在神秘圣剑的召唤下，尘封十五年的异世界王子身份觉醒，平凡人生被彻底颠覆。他跨越时空重返埃坦尼亚，但故乡早已在骷髅王的统治下分崩离析。为拯救曾经的家园与现在的世界，亚当必须再次拔出圣剑，喊出那句响彻寰宇的咒语——“赐予我力量吧！我是希曼！”