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　　律师艾琳（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）接到一桩官司。一名神父由于用宗教手段——驱魔仪式来治疗女孩艾米莉的重病，因而使得艾米莉耽误了正确的药物治疗时间。法庭上，一场宗教与科学之争展开了。　　事件的开端，源于19岁女大学生艾米莉（珍妮弗·卡彭特Jennifer Carpenter饰）的恐怖遭遇。她在大学宿舍睡觉时，感觉有灵异恶魔来侵，接下来更为惊悚的事情陆续发生。艾米莉一反常态，她变得双眼发黑，行为怪异，整日活在犹豫恶魔缠身的梦魇中，艾米莉无法控制自己的意志，痛苦得生不如死。家人为她找来精神病医生，却毫无起色。无奈下，请来神父（汤姆·威尔金森 Tom Wilkinson 饰）一探究竟，才得知艾米莉被远古六恶魔上了身。万魔缠身的她，只有通过宗教仪式进行驱魔，才有可能逃出生天。　　神父的驱魔并没有挽救艾米莉，还引来了控告。无神论者却认为，恶魔缠身是无稽之谈。

　　心理学专业学生安吉拉（Amaia Salamanca 饰）分外担心她的期末学分，在教授的建议下，这个一向不相信超自然的女孩决定去探访一座早已废弃的矿区小镇Susurro，那里曾经有一个嗜血如命的马特加医生，传说他的恶灵至今还在小镇上游荡，残害偶然闯入的人们。为了证明马特加医生的传说子虚乌有，也为了顺利通过考试，安吉拉和她具有较强第六感的妹妹戴安娜（Alba Ribas 饰）以及同学乔西（Maxi Iglesias 饰）、托尼（Óscar Sinela 饰）、贝兰（Úrsula Corberó 饰）、卡罗斯（Lucho Fernández 饰）驱车前往那个荒凉阴森的边远小镇。　　借助精密仪器和戴安娜的配合，他们似乎真的将马特加医生唤回了人间，而死神也一步步向他们靠近……

　　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.

　　大映が初めて手掛けた、1965年制作の本格怪獣映画『ガメラ』シリーズ第1作。監督は、湯浅憲明。北極海上で原爆を積んだ国籍不明機が米軍機によって撃墜され、氷山に墜落した。このため、積んでいた原爆は爆発、氷山に閉じ込められていたエスキモーの伝説の怪獣ガメラが蘇った。巨大な亀怪獣ガメラはその後姿を消し、入れ替わるかのように世界中で謎の空飛ぶ円盤が目撃される。人々の関心が空飛ぶ円盤に移り、ガメラのことが忘れられた頃、再びガメラが北海道にその姿を現した。自衛隊の作戦で仰向けにひっくり返されたガメラ。起き上がることの出来ないガメラに、人々は勝利を確信するが・・・。