愛奴新傳

　　1988 年，心懷偵探夢想的費城警官托馬斯·洛克哈特（波伊德·霍布魯克飾演）開始追蹤一名連環殺手，此人每隔 9 年就神秘地出現一次。但是當殺手的罪行開始違背所有的科學解釋時，洛克對真相的癡迷可能會毀掉他的事業、家庭，甚至是他的心智。《月影殺痕》是一部混合題材的心理驚悚片，探討了時間的力量，以及時間的流逝如何使我們相聚又分開。該片由吉姆·米可執導，其他主演包括邁克爾·C·豪爾和克利歐佩特拉·科爾曼。

　　延續第一部的史詩故事，柯拉（索菲亞·波多拉 Sofia Boutella 飾）與幸存的戰士準備好豁出一切，與勇敢的碧草星居民并肩作戰，即使村落不復往日和平，仍是對抗母星失敗的人們尋得的新家園，這一切，就靠他們來守護。最終大戰前夕，這群戰士必須面對各自的過往，也揭露他們究竟為何而戰。當叛軍勢力星火燎原，王國大軍傾巢而出準備平息動亂，戰友情誼益發堅定，英雄嶄露頭角，不朽傳奇也于焉誕生。

　　本片是美國50年代一部優秀的科幻片。導演Jack Arnold運用特效，讓一只小小的蜘蛛在銀屏上變成一只體形龐大的塔蘭圖拉毒蛛。影片中的塔蘭圖拉毒蛛是一只十分可怕的怪獸，它四處破壞，但始終免不了滅亡的命運。　　經典科幻片，強烈推薦！

　　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.