一千零一夜

洛杉矶警探乔瑟夫（克莱格·谢菲尔 饰）是个标准败类，嗑药嗑得比谁都勤快，调查命案不忘顺手牵羊，更枉顾家中妻小，专搞迷人可爱的阻街女郎。一宗幼童谋杀案现场，乔瑟夫捡回一只受过诅咒的奇异盒子，打开后怪事不断一桩接一桩：昨夜搞上的妓女意外身亡，他瞬间成为头号嫌疑犯；一连串似幻似真的恐怖体验更不断尾随，无脸怪人四处追杀人群，《养鬼吃人》系列当家猛鬼－针头鬼（Pinhead）也重出江湖，一个头两个大的乔瑟夫该如何解决这谜一般的虚实梦魇？本片改编自克里夫巴克（Clive Barker）恐怖小说「受地狱羁绊之心」The Hellbound Heart，这颗坏心肠的主人正是故事男主角乔瑟夫，身为警察的他自身行为不检点也罢，涉嫌谋杀难以脱罪的他竟然嫁祸好同事，善恶终有报，恶徒乔瑟夫果然陷入万劫不复的魔鬼梦魇，活著比死更痛苦。

　　1）名叫蒂米的男童怨灵会在万圣节当晚四处寻找糖果，甚至会为此挖开他人的肚子；2）小男孩被逼迫去一户人家恶作剧，结果被长着角的男主人抓住，两人一起上街恶搞乃至戕害狂欢的人群；3）某户人家正坐在客厅看电影，这时有个打扮成巫婆的女孩敲门，却用刀捅了男主人，恐怖的万圣节变成灾难，当然他们正为自己的所作所为付出代价；4）二男一女不良少年团伙在万圣节之夜四处欺负他人，这时打扮成魔鬼的少年出面阻止他们，反而被三人抓住。5）老妇人和亲朋们讲述了玛丽•贝利的传说，那是一个不愿意被人看到的女人的怨灵，如果被她看到可就惨了；6）无法承受丧女之痛的女人在万圣节之夜变成了心理失衡的恶魔；7）中年人的对面，搬来几个重口味的金属青年，夜幕降临，他和重金属们发生了冲突；8）密林深处，失魂落魄的少女被无情的杀人狂追逐，突然怪事发生；9）两个劫匪企图在万圣节绑架某富豪的孩子，怎奈请神容易送神难；10）男人好不容易雕了一个南瓜头，结果南瓜头突然活了过来，大闹街头。

　　肖恩·利维将再次合作老搭档二十世纪福斯，执导新片[陨石坑](Crater，暂译)，利维也将约翰·J·格里芬执笔的原创剧本进行改编。故事被描述为科幻版的[ 伴我同行 ]，讲述在月球殖民地长大的男孩，和三个小伙伴共同前往一处神秘陨石坑探秘，不料却发生意外。影片剧本曾经入选2015年“好莱坞剧本黑名单”。

　　本（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）和乔（桃丽丝·戴 Doris Day 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，带着儿子汉克（Christopher Olsen 饰），一家三口来到了风景如画的摩洛哥度假。一次偶然中，本和乔结识了名叫路易斯（丹尼尔·盖林 Daniel Gélin 饰）的男人，他们在一起相处十分融洽。　　不幸的事情发生了，路易斯被凶手刺杀身亡，临死前，他透露了一个神秘的名字——“安伯斯·查培”，并且告诉本和乔，有人正在伦敦执行一项秘密的暗杀行动，在得知了这个惊天秘密后，本和乔来到了伦敦。暗杀者自知行动泄露，为了取得最后的成功，他们不择手段绑架了汉克，可即便如此，也没能动摇本和乔声张正义的决心。

　　东北小镇，白事先生张英豪和卖狐皮的王元顺意气相投。但背地里王元顺却与张英豪的媳妇李文红有染。李文红怀上了王元顺的孩子，王元顺决定杀死张英豪。然而他雇佣来的杀手竟屡屡失手。王元顺杀人不成反被杀手讹钱。无奈之下，他开始挑拨杀手们的关系……一年后，一具尸体惊现废井。警方确定王元顺有重大作案嫌疑。可王元顺却已离奇失踪，仿佛人间蒸发……

　　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.