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 故事发生在一九三九年的夏天，克里姆（沃尔特·皮金 Walter Pidgeon 饰）和妻子米尼佛夫人（葛丽亚·嘉逊 Greer Garson 饰）住在英国郊外，两人结婚多年，生了三个孩子，生活幸福美满。克里姆的大儿子韦恩（理查德·内伊 Richard Ney 饰）爱上了花会创办人的孙女贝尔（特雷莎·怀特 Teresa Wright 饰），情投意合的两人很快走到了一起。战争开始了，韦恩想要为国效忠，赶往了前线，而克里姆和米尼佛夫人则在后方支援。某日，一名德国飞行员受伤闯入了米尼佛夫人的后花园，米尼佛夫人凭借着自己的勇敢与智慧协助警察成功将其捉拿。米尼佛夫人和贝尔小姐在送韦恩前往驻地的途中遭遇了空袭，一时间凶多吉少。

 时长半小时的短片。故事是发生在TV版中途的番外篇，突出两位女主角的位置，并附带“歌姬”设定……主题曲延用TV版前半部的OP（但收录进剧场版时被取消）。

　　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.

　　《幽灵人间》：一幢豪华的别墅内，年迈的主人坤桑遇刺身亡。他曾留下遗嘱，将房子留给一对连体的双胞胎姐妹花。但是条件只有一个，姐妹俩必须为祖父首领三天。守灵之夜，怪事频发，鬼影幢幢，杀机四伏；《第11层天堂》：在名为“Heaven 11”的超市内，开业不到两个月内，接连4名店员自杀身亡。从收银台前的监视器内，可以清楚看到自杀收银员的身影。所见之人，不寒而栗，死亡诅咒仍在继续，纯情的收银女孩步入死局；《第八层地狱》 ：命运凄惨的女孩在大厦电梯间被粗暴蛮横的负心汉残忍杀害。美人香销玉殒，但冤魂久久不散。电梯间内，血腥的一幕重复上演，轮回不止……

　　自从父亲死后，薇若妮卡就一直姊代母职照顾弟弟。思念父亲的她，和两个朋友在日全蚀那天，做了碟仙板以召唤她父亲的灵体。不料就在日光完全遭到遮蔽同时，玻璃破碎，薇若妮卡陷入恍惚状态然后昏迷，朋友们也吓得惊慌失措。薇若妮卡清醒后回家，却开始发现一些异象：东西自己会移动、看不见的地方传来正体不明的呼吸声……她觉得是她把父亲带回了生者的世界，可是这些异象却越发不怀好意，让她备感威胁。在弟弟的帮助下，薇若妮卡展开一项仪式要脱离灵体纠缠，却召唤出始料未及的恐怖幻影，虽然薇若妮卡勇敢地抵抗，但她却浑然不知可怕的后果正等着她……

　　东汉末年，精通风水阴阳、堪舆演星之术的乔二被迫与夫人下入墓穴探取长生石，然而墓穴坍塌众人被埋入地下。再次醒来的乔二发现自己到了民国年代，对当代社会一窍不通的他偶遇了与妻子长相一样的小飞莺。靠着众人的协助，乔二将再次下墓寻找自己的爱人。