破旧山庄：可疑的药贩子

Follows the relentless journey of a determined young woman as she unravels the disturbing truth behind a serial rapist.

　　1941年，第二次世界大战如火如荼。英国伦敦遭到纳粹法西斯的毁灭性轰炸，成千上万的人流离失所，更有无数儿童沦为孤儿。为了躲避战火的蹂躏，陆军军官的妻子海伦·霍格女士（海伦·麦克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 饰）与伊芙·帕金斯（菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 饰）带着孤儿们登上列车，辗转来到一处偏远所在避难。经过长途跋涉，她们抵达目的地并被安排在临时的占时军队医院落脚。只不过它的前身这里正是那个黑衣女人横行盘桓的Eel Marsh House。才脱狼穴，又入虎口，惊慌失措的女人和孩子们即将迎来比战争更为可怕的噩梦，恶灵的杀戮有序展开……　　本片根据英国小说家苏珊·希尔（Susan Hill）的畅销小说改编。

这是系列首次以露伴的责任编辑、同时也是其得力搭档——泉京香为主人公展开的故事。这一次，京香因露伴的一句话，被卷入一场难以想象的怪异事件。本作在原作者荒木飞吕彦的协助下完成剧本创作，并由在国际上也备受关注的导演组合“5月”的关友太郎与平濑谦太朗共同执笔，推出全新原创故事。

　　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.