恐怖列車

　　《蒙上你的眼：逃出巴塞羅那》由《蒙上你的眼》的制作人傾情打造，是 2018 年備受觀眾青睞的熱門電影的衍生作品。在一股神秘力量使世界人口大量減少之后，塞巴斯蒂安必須在巴塞羅那荒涼的街道上展開自己的求生之旅。當他與其他幸存者結(jié)成不穩(wěn)定的聯(lián)盟，并試圖逃離這座城市時，一個意想不到、甚至更加險惡的威脅正在增長。

　　某座平凡小鎮(zhèn)，彪悍恐武的警探約翰·伊利亞特（維尼·瓊斯 Vinnie Jones 飾）和美麗善良的女兒海瑟（Emily Tennant 飾）生活在一起。某天一名酷酷的男孩來到海瑟的學(xué)校，他叫羅比·穆勒（杰克·克羅克 Jake Croker 飾），五年前曾和海瑟有過一面之緣，并且卷入了一場神秘恐怖的死亡時間。羅比似乎對海瑟頗有好感，但卻因此惹惱追求這個女孩的格雷戈（Aren Buchholz 飾）。在一次爭執(zhí)中，五年前的恐怖一幕再度上演，格雷戈在沒有任何人碰觸他的情況下突然倒地，遭受重創(chuàng)?！　〔痪煤蟾窭赘陚鲈?，卻死性不改，對羅比欲行不軌，最終在野外死于一場離奇的事故。約翰受命調(diào)查此案，種種疑點全部指向了神秘而陰森的羅比……

　　飛賊黑貓（許冠杰 飾）搶奪國際犯罪組織的鉆石后借助多種工具溜之大吉，黑貓在現(xiàn)場遺留的白手套讓香港警方誤認為作案者是國際大盜“白手套”，警方請到追捕白手套多年的美國光頭神探（麥嘉 飾）查案，并派出干練女警何東詩（張艾嘉 飾）協(xié)助。另一方面，鉆石主人——意大利黑幫要求白手套正身抵港取回鉆石?！　」忸^神探與黑貓不打不相識，威逼利誘之下，黑貓決定協(xié)助神探拿獲白手套。三人小組為找回遺失的鉆石盲打誤撞惹來連串麻煩，黑貓終于拿到鉆石之際，潛伏的白手套也同時出現(xiàn)了……

　　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.