异形终结

东南亚已经成为许多生物工程技术公司的庇护之地，在摩加迪休（索马里首都），一种高传染性病菌从研究中心扩散到人群，病毒迅速入侵人体并致人于狂躁，犹如僵尸般生吃未受感染的人，城市陷入了毁灭的境地，雇佣兵迈克尔｀加特林受雇前往营救雇主的女儿，不断受到感染人群的死亡攻击，营救任务充满死亡气息⋯⋯

越战后，美国政府进行了一项绝密的科学计划。科学家们将越战中牺牲的士兵的尸体冰冻起来，植入电脑芯片，输入战争程序，讲他们改造成为新一代的战争机器人――“宇宙战士”，这些机器人没有情感和以前的记忆，只有冰冷的杀戮武器。士兵卢克（尚格•云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）和班长安德鲁（杜夫•朗格 Dolph Lundgren 饰）就是其中两员，他们被派往参加一场新的战争。战争中，两人的芯片突然出错，令两人都恢复了以前的记忆。
卢克记起越战当年正是安德鲁突然性情大变将属下和俘虏都杀光，误闯美军基地的女记者罗伯斯（艾丽•沃克 Ally Walker 饰）意外获悉了美军这一秘密。本来罗伯斯难逃一死，关键时刻卢克救走了她。于是，美军派出所有的宇宙战士开始追杀二人

　　心理学家克里斯•凯尔文（Donatas Banionis 饰）在飞往索拉瑞斯星之前来到儿时的父母家与当年的索拉瑞斯飞行员亨利•伯顿（Vladislav Dvorzhetsky 饰）见面。伯顿警告凯尔文索拉瑞斯星上会有不可思议的奇事发生，但后者并不以为意。凯尔文离开前，当 着父亲（尼古莱•格陵柯Nikolai Grinko 饰）的面焚毁了自己的个人物品。凯尔文到达索拉瑞斯星附近的太空站后，对科学家奇巴瑞安博士（Sos Sargsyan 饰）之死进行调查，却发现自己多年前已经去世的妻子哈莉（Natalya Bondarchuk 饰）竟突然出现。惊慌失措的凯尔文与太空站上的科学家们讨论该如何面对怪事，却发现原来每人都深受其扰，不明就里……
　　本片被提名1972年戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，并获同年戛纳电影节评委会大奖和国际影评人协会大奖。

　　Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.
　　While most of the later movies exploited this possibility for B-movie thrills, "Five" adopts a quiet, contemplative tone which some may find dull but which thoughtful viewers are more likely to find, for want of a better word, haunting. There is something about this movie which gets under the skin and which lurks in the corners of the mind long after it's over.

　　剧情大概：
　　一个执行太空任务从宇宙归来的太空舱里的船员被天外异形下了药变成了可怕的怪物，这种异形能寄生到人体使其发生肢体变异。同时期一组洞穴探险员来到城市郊外溶洞探险，没想到此地已经被异形占领，他们只能靠本能来逃脱异形所设下的种种陷阱……（说起山寨，意大利人才应该算是鼻祖吧，就如同这部电影标题一般…不要对这部电影有任何企图，他只会让你变成扑克脸- -）
　　血腥度：4
　　片中怪物数量：？
　　怪物类型：外星生物
　　怪物特点：寄生
　　怪物必杀技：变形
　　怪物恶心度：3

　　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.