狂犬病（2023）

　　本片讲述了民国乱世，身怀绝技的“先生”龙三受师妹所托，一路历尽千辛，途中救助老百姓，解散啸聚城中的响马匪众，对决欺压民众的军阀，并破获了少女失踪案，维护了一方净土的评书故事。

　　1994 年，一群青少年发现，发生在小镇几代人身上的恐怖事件之间可能存在某种关联，并且他们恐怕就是下一个牺牲品。《恐惧街》改编自 R·L·史坦恩的畅销恐怖系列，本剧揭开了荫城的险恶历史，这段长达 300 年的历史已成为小镇人漫长的梦魇。

　　两个蒙面人在街上绑架了一个女人并向其索要赎金，他们将她绑了起来并且堵住了她的嘴巴，但这个女人凭借自己有限的力量破坏了绑匪精心策划的计划。

　　本片是根据实际发生的「少年杀害了祖父母事件」的构思而改编成电影的崭新故事。长泽扮演懒散奔放的母亲·秋子，挑战堕入了社会黑暗面的女人，而阿部サダヲ则饰演与秋子没有结婚登记而同居的丈夫·遼，影片将重点刻画秋子和她年幼的儿子·周平（郡司翔）之间所展开的关系。

　　神经科专家库克维奇医师在一简陋的医院准备进行划时代的脑切除手术，却对院内粗糙的设备感到困挠。来自新奥尔良的贵妇维纳波夫人有意赞助库可维奇任职的医院，但库可维奇必须对其侄女凯瑟琳进行脑切除的手术，以治疗她的精神崩溃症状。饱受折磨的凯瑟琳会透露出什么惊人之语？维纳波夫人和凯瑟琳又为何有心结？

　　Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be "Old Nick" , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.

　　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.

　　高中男孩斯科特·诺里斯（卢卡斯·提尔 Lucas Till 饰）英俊帅气，爽朗风趣，作为校足球队的球员他在赛场上叱咤风云，生活中又有美丽开朗的女孩朱尔丝（莎拉·伯格 Sarah Bolger 饰）陪伴，可谓春风得意，除了不久前受伤的膝盖让他有些烦恼。在聚光灯下的斯科特， 自然不会注意到暗处有一双眼睛始终凝望着他。那个女孩名叫贝丝（克里斯塔尔·里德 Crystal Reed 饰），性格有些阴郁的她深深迷恋斯科特，长期的情感压抑令贝丝的内心饱受折磨。笨拙怪异的表白根本得不到心上人的热烈回应，一切皆化作徒劳。
　　迷恋与被迷恋，跟踪与被跟踪，狂野破碎的青春，一切朝向失控的彼方……