三姝艷史

驚魂記1960

 年輕的馬里恩·克蘭（珍妮特·利 飾）在Phoenix工作，深受老板洛厄里（沃恩·泰勒 飾）信任。男友薩姆·盧米斯（約翰·加文 飾）在Fairvale經營一家五金店，因要替亡父還債又要支付前妻贍養費而無力再婚，只能借出差的機會偶爾來與馬里恩幽會。馬里恩對此感到不滿，于是在周五下午趁機攜四萬美元公款駕車潛逃。可是馬里恩的潛逃之路并不順利：先是在出城的時候被洛厄里目擊，周六一大早又被警察懷疑。花了七百美元以舊車換新車之后，馬里恩繼續忐忑地行駛。入夜后，天降大雨，視線模糊，無法行駛，馬里恩只得將車泊入路邊的貝茨汽車旅館投宿。老板諾爾曼（安東尼·珀金斯 飾）十分友善，試圖邀請馬里恩到家里共進晚餐，可惜被兇惡的母親粗暴阻止，只得將晚餐端至旅館客廳。馬里恩在客廳一邊進餐一邊與諾爾曼交談，終于決定周日返回Phoenix。用餐完畢，馬里恩回房沐浴。這時，一個老婦的身影突然出現在衛生間……

機械怪獸

巫咒

　　影片講述了萬香山腳有個黑頂子村，村里住著謝家三兄弟。某年冬天特別寒冷，謝老二違背了祖訓，偷偷進山采參，誰知回來后就神秘死去。村中人都認為謝老二是因為這是觸怒了山神，“山神降下了詛咒”才離奇死亡??

圍困3

　　本片是蘇聯偉大衛國戰爭系列史詩巨片之一部。影片盡情歌頌了蘇聯人民，在德國法西斯圍困列寧格勒的900個艱難的日日夜夜，所表現出來的頑強精神。影片及表現了蘇軍大本營對列寧格勒的戰略布防，也表現出列寧格勒市民面對生死的堅忍不拔。同時也是為數不多的蘇聯戰爭影片，客觀地表現了戰爭初期紅軍失利，以及紅軍將領伏羅希洛夫元帥組織列寧格勒城防的失敗。影片還展現了列寧格勒基洛夫工廠，冒著的德軍轟炸，堅持為前線生產武器，以及軍隊和市民通過城市唯一與外界的通道——拉多加湖通道，運送糧食、武器和其他戰略物資的場面。該片還較為詳實地展示了希特勒攻占列寧格勒的計劃，以及紅軍與市民聯手防御，共同抗敵的畫面。這部影片，將戰爭的全景展示與戰壕細節完美地結合起來，直到今天仍不失為一部反法西戰爭的優秀影片，很值得觀賞和借鑒。

無限：未知對象

　　Jane is trapped in an unknown world with endless possibilities. She has to discover a way to access them and alter her reality before she is destined to repeat the same test over and over again, Ad Infinitum.

等待方舟

　　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.