短暂变大之肤

悬案密码3：信仰的阴谋

　　《悬案密码》系列的第三部：6年前，一只在海上漂流的瓶子在苏格兰被打捞上岸，然而里面的求救信却被视为不祥之物，直到一位调查人员无意中看出了信件开头用丹麦文写着：救命！随着卡尔和两名下属的破解，他们发现署名“保罗”的作者不仅确有其人，而且在写下瓶中信后便下落不明......　　为何少年的家人不曾追究他的行踪？难道他在多年前便已遭遇不测？正当调查陷入胶着，一起离奇车祸让原本天衣无缝的邪恶罪行露出破绽，串起所有线索的卡尔这才明白，自己面对的并不单是一桩陈年旧案，而是过去十几年来，许多破碎家庭的绝望呼救…

致命录像带

　　盖里（Calvin Reeder 饰）、扎克（Lane Hughes 饰）等人是一伙无恶不作的不法之徒，某天他们接到委托，要闯入某户人家偷取一盒神秘的录像带。空空荡荡的大房子里，只有一个死去的老人坐在电视机前。他们无所顾忌，播放了那盘录像带：第一段视频中，一群年轻人带着针头摄像头去夜店狂欢把妹，却遭遇一名夺命妖妹；一对旅行中的情侣入住Motel，期间他们偶遇一名请求搭车的女子，夜晚更有人潜入他们的房间，厄运降临；两男两女驱车去林区度假，却遭遇凶残的杀手；一对网络情侣通过视频聊天，女子声称经常在家中听到奇怪的声响。镜头前，一幕幕恐怖画面接连上演。万圣节，几名男子以外遭遇了神秘而残酷的仪式，他们介入其中，自己的命运也发生改变。　　录像带结束，恐怖故事却刚刚来开序幕……

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.

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拥有15年资历的资深女狱警，得知自己所负责的收容人美英母亲的死讯，之后开始展开的故事。狱警在告别式场以及殡仪馆遇见了美英的女儿俊英，这短暂的相遇，给三人的生活带来了温暖的变化。

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阴目侦信

　　改编自同名热门恐怖小说的电影《阴目侦信》发布先导预告，阴目征信社接到新Case了？　　原著讲述从小拥有阴阳眼的石头成长过程十多年来与鬼为邻，见尽生死相隔、人鬼殊途。身为香港首富伍氏豪门的子嗣，伍伯良身负家族世代相传、不可告人的惊天秘密。大学猛鬼宿舍，时辰一到，石头与新结识的伍伯良和怪人PATRICK，能否合力阻止鬼门大开？