I-ONE NEXT 橋本ひかり

　　《笔仙大战贞子2》讲述了美术学院学生夏柚（奚美丽饰），在与“姐妹团”佩洁（朱娅饰）、小依（王宇凝饰）、雯雯（林奕婧饰）聚会时候玩起了通灵游戏，阴差阳错之下招致了贞子的出现，伴随而来的还有噩梦和杀戮。被逼无奈之下，姐妹团决定召唤笔仙，一场中日鬼王之间的恶战再次掀起。

　　影片《灵异医院》讲述的是一个有着不堪过去的女人在一家新近倒闭关门的医院找到了一份核对病人简历复印件的工作，而孤独一人在隔绝的医院值夜班的过程中她经历了一些神秘事件。有所警觉的她通过这些事件发现医院可能和近日出现的谋杀案有关，而要破解这些谜团，首先她需要仔细梳理一下自己混乱的过去。

　　林美嘉（李昕芸 饰）、安晓晨（李媛 饰）和陈宇林（范逸臣 饰）大学时代便认识的好友，晓晨与宇林更是亲密的情侣。毕业后这对闺蜜共同进入一家服装设计公司，在残酷的职场中果敢自信的晓晨扶摇直上，很快成为一支团队的负责人，这让美嘉心中难免有所芥蒂。某次二人受公司指派去泰国寻找素材，希望转运的美嘉坚持要去某个偏僻所在向法师求佛牌。此后，两人在泰国遭遇离奇火灾，晓晨命丧异国他乡，美嘉则侥幸逃生，但失去了泰国之行的所有记忆。身为心理医生的宇林固然伤心，同时希望通过自己的专业技能帮助美嘉走出阴影。　　可是这番治疗丝毫没有效果，美嘉被恐怖的幻觉所困扰，情况愈演愈烈……

　　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.