天使陨落

　　大学生史蒂芬妮（凯特琳·桑塔·胡安娜 Kaitlyn Santa Juana 饰）饱受反复出现的暴力恶梦所困扰，于是决定回到家乡，寻找唯一可能打破这个循环的人，并拯救家人免于无法避免的可怕厄运。

　　影片讲述了万香山脚有个黑顶子村，村里住着谢家三兄弟。某年冬天特别寒冷，谢老二违背了祖训，偷偷进山采参，谁知回来后就神秘死去。村中人都认为谢老二是因为这是触怒了山神，“山神降下了诅咒”才离奇死亡⋯⋯

　　30年代，舞台演员Tyler Walker在他的恋人Myrna抛弃他跟别人结婚之后精神崩溃，整天在他的豪宅里跟一个打扮成Myrna模样的时装模型为伴，终于在一天晚上，Tyler上吊自杀。许多年后，深陷破产危机的Cates一家突然听说他们继承了Tyler的老房子，急于寻找片瓦遮身的Cates夫妇当即带着儿子Scott和女儿Robin前往。经历多年风雨，这所老房子变得残破不堪，而且还被暴躁成性的Silk为首的街头帮派占据。就在Cates一家忙于应付Silk及其党羽的时候，Tyler的鬼魂跑出来制造了更多混乱……

　　The story follows a struggling young couple chasing the American dream only to realize their worst nightmare when they discover a demonic spirit in their new home. Mammon is the biblical word for the worship of wealth, and the couple discover that getting rich can come at a hefty price.

　　一个自由奔放的女孩在一次深夜聚会后，发现自己赤身裸体地躺在一座废弃的建筑物里，这让她震惊不已。

　　影片讲述一个成功的体育经纪人达伦（迈克尔·伊雷饰），当他被卷入由一个身份存疑、不知羞耻但行为坚定的侦探（希拉里·斯万克饰）领导的警方调查中，他原本的完美生活渐渐消失……

　　在每一个城市，深受精神困扰的人在100个里就占9个。精神科医生高静（李心洁 饰）在工作中凡事以病人的健康为重，深得同事喜欢。在书店她与一名男子擦身而过，男子买下她想买的摄影书，高静感觉有些奇妙。
　　小凯（梁洛施 饰）是高静的病人，从外地休假回来后带高静参加一个摄影展，高静意外地发现摄影中的正是潜水的自己，更意外的，摄影师正是那天在书店遇见的男子，也是小凯的哥哥——考古学家陈国栋（郭晓冬 饰）。国栋将那天买下的书送给高静，二人从此堕入爱河。
　　为了向高静求婚，国栋和高静、小凯前往与那国岛，潜入海底深处找出藏在那里的钻戒。谁知国栋出事了，只打捞起一具无头的男尸。高静由于太过悲痛而失去了关于那件意外的记忆，小凯对自己态度异常冷淡，高静寻求院长（梁家辉 饰）给自己做催眠，然而催眠之后幻觉更多。

　　六年前, 新島只得10歲的小女兒被綁架和謀殺, 六年後的今天他終於抓到那殘忍的兇手, 雖然他卻對殺害女童的指控矢口否認, 但新島仍二話不說把他殺掉~ 新島後來遇上舊同學岩松, 並被邀請到他的公司工作~ 起初以為這是份無聊差事, 誰不知內裡竟然是個殺手組織, 專門派美女色誘目標然後上門將之殺害~ 新島雙手沾滿鮮血之際, 竟被組織的上級人物指派監視岩松, 他這位好兄弟可能正在暗裡做出背叛組織的勾當…

奥德拉的毕业礼物是她梦寐以求的房子，但当一些不速之客来到她的返校派对时，它很快就变成了一个活生生的噩梦，这些人并没有很微妙地意识到他们不认可房子的新主人。

　　This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.
　　Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.
　　One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.

　　"Jane (Victoria Moroles) is a 15-year-old girl whose very human mother died recently and may have slept with a vampire about, say, 15 years and nine months ago. The fact she craves raw meat and has to wear a lot of sunblock are also clues that Francis is her father. The realization that his cool-guy life as an immortal vampire might be changing radically is at first scary to Francis, but eventually he embraces it, and that’s when things get really interesting." --from gizmodo

　　不可解な怪奇現象が多発するという実在の森を舞台にした物語。数々の目撃情報をベースに、主人公たちが得体の知れない“それ”に遭遇する未知の恐怖が描かれる。