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.
A typical weekend down the shore takes a bizarre turn into the mysterious New Jersey Pine Barrens as six girls and five obnoxious fist-pumpers become the unsuspecting targets of a mentally-deranged killer.
A woman finds herself locked in a stark room and given challenges.
未来某年的7月2日，美国各地的监视站发现一艘直径达数百英里的巨大飞船接近了地球。飞船发出的无线电信号干扰了地球的通信卫星信号，并放出了多艘直径达15英里的子飞船飞抵地球上各大城市的上空。外星飞船敌友未明，人们陷入了恐慌和迷惑。 电脑工程师戴维（杰夫•戈德布拉姆 饰）破译出外星人发出的无线电信号，其实是攻击的倒计时信号，他设法通知了前妻，总统的助理康妮，但是为时已晚，7月3日，外星人的飞船开始攻击地球，人类文明瞬间遭到巨大的打击和灾难。总统（比尔•普尔曼 饰）等人撤离到军事基地，指挥空军反击，却犹如以卵击石，毫无作用，军事基地也被摧毁，唯有飞行员史蒂文（威尔•史密斯 饰）设法诱使一架外星人战斗飞艇坠毁。 幸存者们逃到了秘密军事基地，在那里，科学家们一直在研究一艘50多年前坠毁的外星飞艇，致力于找出对付外星人的办法，那里也是人类最后的希望……
